So you want to be a starter?
“That’s my preference, yeah.”
All that tick, play any type of minutes, don’t even sit?**
“Even though I have the restriction, that’s where I want to be. I want to be starting. You know, I’m more useful starting than off the bench.”
Following his third game back from the nerve impingement that led to 38 consecutive absences, Ben Simmons made his feelings known. Regardless of injury maintenance or minutes restrictions, he wants to start. Can you tell?
In the game, the Brooklyn Nets’ 119-107 loss to the Dallas Mavericks, Simmons got his wish.