{"id":514333,"date":"2026-09-08T20:27:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=514333"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:27:47","slug":"ben-simmons-officially-joins-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ben-simmons-officially-joins-sacramento-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons officially joins Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Simmons is officially a player of the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian forward returns to the NBA after sitting out last season while recovering from several physical issues.<\/p>\n<p>Over his seven seasons as a professional, Simmons has averaged more than 13 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists per game. However, his production declined significantly after his first four years with the Philadelphia 76ers during &#8216;The Process&#8217; Era.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft has signed a one-year deal for the veteran minimum, although it remains unclear whether the contract is partially or fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">welcome to the 916, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenSimmons25?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bensimmons25<\/a> \ud83d\udc51 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qdZ24cNIFd\">pic.twitter.com\/qdZ24cNIFd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sacramento Kings (@SacramentoKings) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SacramentoKings\/status\/2097370025728545046?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft has signed a one-year deal for the veteran minimum, although it remains unclear whether the contract is partially or fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":514332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-514333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/HRtZHJMboAAQNXk.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514333","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=514333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514333"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=514333"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=514333"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=514333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}