{"id":547797,"date":"2026-10-06T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=547797"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:51:29","slug":"ben-simmons-could-become-kings-starter-he-looks-like-sixers-ben-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ben-simmons-could-become-kings-starter-he-looks-like-sixers-ben-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons could become Kings starter: \u201cHe looks like Sixers Ben again\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben Simmons is reportedly making a strong impression at Sacramento Kings training camp and could soon earn a starting role.<br>According to Marc J. Spears, the veteran may move into the starting lineup within the first month of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve heard he\u2019s had an outstanding camp,\u201d <strong>Marc J. Spears<\/strong> said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if, within a month, he\u2019s starting. He\u2019s doing that well. He looks like he\u2019s playing with the Sixers again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sacramento is still taking a cautious approach. Simmons is expected to make his preseason debut either Thursday against the Lakers or Saturday against the Warriors. The 30-year-old signed a one-year minimum deal that is not fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Simmons is impressing in Kings camp and could become a starter within the first month of the season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":393198,"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-547797","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\/2024\/06\/Sacramento-Kings.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547797","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=547797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547798,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547797\/revisions\/547798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547797"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=547797"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=547797"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=547797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}