{"id":514621,"date":"2026-09-10T08:29:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=514621"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:29:52","slug":"draymond-green-praises-ben-simmons-nba-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/draymond-green-praises-ben-simmons-nba-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green praises Ben Simmons\u2019 NBA comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1234\" data-end=\"1397\">Draymond Green expressed his happiness over Ben Simmons\u2019 NBA return after the former No. 1 pick signed a one-year, $3.5 million contract with the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1399\" data-end=\"1564\">\u201cI spoke with Ben and he was excited to play basketball. The first thing he said was, \u2018Man, I\u2019m healthy. It feels so good to be healthy,\u2019\u201d Green said on his podcast.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1566\" data-end=\"1771\">Green praised Simmons for continuing to work despite his injuries and criticism: \u201cEverybody counted him out, but he went back to the drawing board, got healthy and wants to become a good NBA player again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Warriors forward praised the former All-Star for getting healthy and earning another opportunity with Sacramento<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":514620,"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":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-514621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/simmons-1536x927-1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514621","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514621"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=514621"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=514621"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=514621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}