Less than three months after signing a three-year, $18 million contract with the Orlando Magic, Jonathan Simmons is back in San Antonio to take on his former team. The 6’6’’ swingman has averaged just over 10 points coming off the bench, and is already up to his old above-the-rim tricks with his new team.
Besides the free-agent additions of Simmons, Marreese Speights and Shelvin Mack, not much has changed for a team that finished 13th in the East with record of 29 and 53. Still, expectations remain high that a starting lineup of Elfrid Payton, Aaron Gordon, Evan Fournier, Terrence Ross and Nikola Vucevic, along with a rotation featuring Simmons, D.