Simmons remains out of the lineup for Monday night’s game against the Atlanta Hawks.
The NBA fined the Philadelphia 76ers $ 25,000 for violating the league’s injury reporting rules.
After Ben Simmons was not on the injury report on Friday, when Philadelphia had half its team in NBA health and safety protocols, the Sixers listed him as “out” for Saturday’s game. late against Denver.
The league’s injury reporting rules prohibit players from making late and dramatic changes in availability, for example, going from off-list to off-list, as Simmons did, or vice versa.
Before Saturday’s game, the Sixers coach, Doc Rivers, said the team knew after Thursday’s loss to the Nets in Brooklyn that Simmons would not be available.
“Ben, in the Brooklyn game, had some stiffness in his knee, so we probably knew after the game that he wasn’t going to play tonight,” Rivers said.
Joel Embiid, who also missed Saturday’s game with a stiff back, is available to play Monday night in Atlanta. With Embiid, Philadelphia has nine players available, one more than the eight required to play. One of those nine, however, is forward Mike Scott, who did not play Saturday due to a knee problem that had kept him out of the lineup.
It is not yet clear if Scott would be available to play the Hawks; still included in the injury report as ‘available’ with a left knee contusion.
Eight Sixers remain out: five (Curry, Tobias Harris, Matisse Thybulle, Shake Milton y Vincent Poirier) due to protocols; Simmons by his knee; Terrance Ferguson For personal motives; and Furkan Korkmaz, suffering from adductor strain.
Source: ESPN
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