Ben Simmons to have back surgery: Per Shams: Out 3 months will be available to start training camp.

[BK The Great]

Can’t make this up and they actually wanted this dude to play when he was Injured all along. Please get rid of this dude out of the league he’s making it look like a complete joke.

 

[CJ]

shoulda never left the Dubs

Shoulda just embraced the villain role.

listen to the fans and people yapping....and you end up being right wit em.

Yeah I wish KD did that, similar to Bron with the Heat. Felt like the NWO invading every arena - it was good TV.

Guess with the Dubs it was tougher since they were pretty much loved everywhere. He would have needed Steph/Klay/Dray to really heel it up with him.

 

[HabitualChiller]

Anybody I've ever known who's ever had back surgery has told me they regret doing it

Do you know any millionaires? What are we supposed to do with that information if not?

 

[EarlyEarly]

I thought his PTSD was triggering the back pain? Dude needs a lobotomy.

 

[Rell Lauren]

I thought his PTSD was triggering the back pain? Dude needs a lobotomy.

That was character assassination by Sean Marks. He had never been cleared to play.

 

[STAN JONES]

nikkas hatred for this nikka so deep they in here claiming he's faking a damn back surgery .... I thought HE was supposed to be the deranged one

shyts disgusting

these nikkas are worse than the cac media

 

[Illuminatos]

How did he go from nearly playing in Game 4 to needing back surgery in the span of less than a month?

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

Homie is fukked. Back injury for a guy whose whole game is athleticism and who has no real finesse or anything like that? Yikes

 

[El Jefe]

Breh gonna end up heartless and spineless

Speedy recovery

Is he havin a "Backbone" replacement , o

Or is it merely "exploratory" surgery to see if he had 1 to begin wit

 

[beenz]

Depends on the kind of back surgery but eh

When exactly did he get hurt?
And if he’s been hurt this entire time, why now?

This is about that $20 million

it most definitely is.

 

[beenz]

now he has another excuse to NOT work on his jumper this summer. whenever he plays again, he will come back and refuse to shoot.

 

[beenz]

Gotta see the lie all the way through at this point. He just trying to get dem checks he missed. Him and Klutch need to be ashamed of themselves

he's going down with the ship. the back injury is the sword he's gonna lie on I guess.

 

[beenz]

I thought his PTSD was triggering the back pain? Dude needs a lobotomy.

 

[Reality Check]

Y’all just be saying anything & don’t know wtf you be talking about

This. I actually had the same surgery a couple years ago (mine was L5), and he'll be fine by training camp. I think the bigger question that needs to be asked and looked into is:

Why were the Nets even entertaining playing him if he needed back surgery?

I can only speak on what I went through, but if his back was legitimately fukked up to the point he needs surgery (which also means a steroid shot failed and physical therapy didn't improve things), he wouldn't have been cleared to do any physical activity that could further aggravate it. I can buy the Nets waiving the physical to acquire him, but something is really off that any legitimate doctor would have cleared someone who is in need of back surgery for physical activity in general.

 

[god shamgod]

Dudes saying Simmons faking a back injury & having surgery over 20 mil like he hasn’t made enough in his career to go through all this over 20 fukkin million

Y’all slow af