{"id":243081,"date":"2021-10-22T18:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T16:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=243081"},"modified":"2021-10-22T18:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T16:05:32","slug":"76ers-ben-simmons-says-hes-not-mentally-ready-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/76ers-ben-simmons-says-hes-not-mentally-ready-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers: Ben Simmons says he&#8217;s not mentally ready to play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Shams Charania, 76ers star Ben Simmons spoke with Doc Rivers and his teammate-<a href=\"\/?p=241319\">Joel Embiid included<\/a>&#8211; during the shootaround ahead of tonight&#8217;s game against the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-time All Star would like to return to play but asked for time because now he doesn&#8217;t feel mentally prepared.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons was suspended for the regular-season opener, and he will definitely not play in tonight&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Simmons reported to shootaround today ahead of Nets game and was seen engaged around the team, sources said. The three-time All-Star has expressed he wants to play but isn&#39;t prepared mentally. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DUuPfGch2s\">https:\/\/t.co\/DUuPfGch2s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1451564141680934952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2021<\/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>Simmons will not play in tonight&#8217;s game against the Brooklyn Nets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[1100,3286,1098,822],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-243081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-ben-simmons-en","tag-doc-rivers-en","tag-joel-embiid-en","tag-philadelphia-76ers-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243081"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=243081"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=243081"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=243081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}