Clippers team follower reporter: Simmons basically won t stay in the team unless the price he wants is very low

According to Los Angeles Clippers' team reporter Law Murray: Clippers backcourt player Ben Simmoms, who is about to become a free agent, is not expected to return to the Clippers next season unless he is willing to re-sign with the team at a very low price. Murray also said: Since Simmons will be a free agent, and later in the last two games of the playoffs, he has completely faded out of the Clippers' rotation lineup. His importance to the team is actually very limited, and his effect on the court is not that ideal, so the possibility of him returning to the team next season is very low. Even if Simmons eventually returns to the team, it will only be at a very low contract price. What this team needs now is players who can create threats on both offense and defense. Obviously, Simmons cannot do both at the same time.

After joining the Clippers, Simmons made a total of 18 appearances in the NBA regular season, averaging 16.4 minutes per game, averaging 2.9 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 0.7 steals and 0.4 blocks, and 0.8 turnovers and 1.4 fouls, with a shooting percentage of 43.4% and a free throw percentage of 85.7%. In the playoffs, Simmons played 5 games in the seven-game series in which the team lost to the Denver Nuggets in the first round, with an average of 8.4 minutes per game, averaging 0.8 points, 1.4 rebounds, 0.8 assists, 0.2 steals and 0.8 blocks, 0.4 turnovers and 2.2 fouls, with a shooting percentage of 33.3%. Since the results were not ideal on the court, Simmons did not get any playing time in the last two series.

Simmons was bought out of the contract by his old club Brooklyn Nets in the middle of the season, and then joined the Clippers with a basic salary contract. The Clippers had high hopes for Simmons, and they even sent away the team's former substitute point guard Kevin Porter Jr. for vain. The purpose was to make a place for Simmons. As a result, everyone has seen that Simmons' performance in the team has been declining, his scoring ability is getting worse and worse, his offensive desire is getting lower and lower, and his influence on the game on the offensive end is getting weaker and weaker. We can all feel that Simmons is limited in time on the court, and he has no way to play the role of the core of the second team's backcourt under the current circumstances. In the first few games of the playoffs, Simmons' playing time was very limited. Because he was too burdened with the team's space on the court, the team could only arrange for him to serve as the substitute center. However, the team's second team seems to need more flexibility and players with certain outside shooting, so Simmons' role is becoming more and more marginalized. On the other hand, there are top outside defenders like Kris Dunn in the Clippers lineup, and even Dunn, his scoring ability and shooting ability are much better than Simmons. In this case, it is reasonable that Simmons was given up by the team.