{"id":473839,"date":"2023-12-23T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T12:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473839"},"modified":"2023-12-23T08:17:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T12:17:19","slug":"brooklyns-simmons-shares-too-early-to-target-his-return","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/brooklyns-simmons-shares-too-early-to-target-his-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn\u2019s Simmons shares too early to target his return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/brooklyn-nets\/\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> player Ben Simmons claimed that the lower back nerve impingement that&#8217;s sidelined him for almost 2 months has him as frustrated as he&#8217;s ever been.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s without a doubt 1 of the most frustrating points in my time in the NBA just because I want to be out there to help my organization triumph and play,&#8221; Ben admitted before the Nets match against the Nuggets at Barclays Center. &#8220;But to be fair, it&#8217;s 1 of those things that are a part of sports. Not every match&#8217;s promised. Injuries happen. Unfortunately, that\u2019s the way professional sports work. So, for me, it&#8217;s just focusing on what I can do at the moment and doing what I can to return healthy and be my best self on the court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn forward has missed 21 consecutive matches since sustaining the problem vs. the Milwaukee Bucks on November 6<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ben Simmons on what he has been able to do in his workouts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just started on-court stuff. Moving around, getting some shots up. So just start from the bottom and working my way up.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lAJi8wNLxX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lAJi8wNLxX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erik Slater (@erikslater_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erikslater_\/status\/1738350697140126052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Nets player Ben Simmons claimed that the lower back nerve impingement that&#8217;s sidelined him for almost 2 months has him as frustrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":473840,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16848,16720,17837],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18419,17842,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Nets forward admitted that he is frustrated by his latest back problem.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473847,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473839\/revisions\/473847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473839"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473839"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}