Ben Simmons is still plagued by injuries in the 2023-24 season, which is a bad event for the Brooklyn Nets. Because they are ranked 11th in the East this season, they are likely to miss the playoffs, and they have not even shown the attitude of wanting to compete for a playoff spot.
And Ben Simmons, the highest-paid player in the Brooklyn Nets, failed to play more games to help the Nets get better. Many fans are curious about how Ben Simmons' next NBA journey will develop.
After all, he has played 178 games since he joined the Brooklyn Nets in 2022, and he has only played 57 games. Attendance was only 3202%。In the 2022-23 season, he earned a whopping $33.93 million per year.
In the 2023-24 season, he played 15 games and averaged just 23 appearances per game9 minutes, an average of 61 point, 79 rebounds, 57 assists. Although his rebounding, defense and passing ability are among the best in the league, his poor offense has not changed.
This has made fans think that his annual salary of $36.27 million this season looks like he is holding a poison contract that will not end until the 2024-25 season, with an annual salary of up to $38.61 million in the final season.
As the No. 1 pick in 2016, Ben Simmons has missed a large number of games over the past few seasons due to various back, knee and leg problems. He played 81 games in his rookie season in 2017-18 and 79 in 2018-19, after which he never played more than 60 games in a single season.
In 2019, he signed a 5-year 1 with the 76ersThe $700 million contract is almost over. Now Ben Simmons also hopes to get a long-term contract with an annual salary of not less than $30 million in the NBA.
Recently, Ben Simmons' agent, Lee, told SportsNet that he was responsible for Ben Simmons' injury because he was too obsessed with getting Ben Simmons to avoid surgery and seek naturalness.
"We continue to work hard to find non-surgical options that will allow Ben to move forward permanently, and that's my responsibility, and I'm the culprit.
"When I started working with Ben, I promised him that I would do everything I could to find the right answers and experts for him in order to move forward from the problems he had been facing. Obviously, it didn't happen, and that's my responsibility. ”
Actually, it doesn't have much to do with the agent, many teams are not interested in Ben Simmons, not because of his injury, but because he doesn't have excellent individual offensive projection. In this offensive-dominated era, a player with no projection ability is getting an annual salary of close to $40 million, which is unacceptable to many teams and fans.