Ben Simmons

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Basketball player
Ben Simmons
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Player information
Full name Benjamin David Simmons
birthday 20th July 1996 (age 24)
place of birth Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
size 208 cm
Weight 109 kg
position Point guard
college LSU
NBA draft 2016 , 1st pick, Philadelphia 76ers
Club information
society Philadelphia 76ers
league NBA
Jersey number 25th
Clubs as active
Philadelphia 76ers since 02016United StatesUnited States
National team
Since 201300AustraliaAustralia Australia

Benjamin David "Ben" Simmons (born July 20, 1996 in Melbourne , Victoria ) is an Australian basketball player who is under contract with the Philadelphia 76ers in the US professional league NBA . He measures 2.08 meters, is left-handed and was originally used as a winger. Since his arrival in the NBA, despite his size, he has been a point guard / point forward .

Simmons was selected first by the 76ers in the 2016 NBA Draft , but only made his debut the following season due to an injury. Following the 2017/18 season , he was voted Rookie of the Year and is now also a two-time NBA All-Star .

Career

Childhood and youth

Simmons grew up in Newcastle , New South Wales , where he played basketball and rugby as a teenager . At the age of ten he moved with his family back to his native Melbourne , where he played basketball in the youth teams of the suburban club Knox Raiders. At the age of 14, he decided to focus on basketball in the future and not pursue the rugby career. From the age of 15 he played for the team at Box Hill Senior Secondary College in the state of Victoria and received a scholarship from the Australian Institutes of Sport in 2012 .

The move to the United States followed. From January 2013 to 2015, Simmons played for the team at the Montverde Academy in the state of Florida . In between he returned to his Australian homeland and played in the 2013 season for the Bulleen Boomers in the Big V league. In April 2013, Simmons took part in the Jordan Brand Classic International Game , in which he competed with some of the world's best players of his year measured.

In October 2013, he announced that he would study and play at Louisiana State University from the 2015/16 season . In November 2014, he then signed the corresponding agreement. In his sophomore season at Montverde Academy, he was ranked first on several senior high school player rankings and was named Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year for best high school player of the year. He also took part in the McDonald's All-American game of the best high school players.

For the 2015/16 season he moved to Louisiana State University and immediately became a key player on the team. In his first and only season at LSU, he led the team in several statistical categories, including points scored per game (19.2), rebounds (11.8), assists (4.8), ball wins (2.0) and blocks (0.8).

NBA

In the 2016 NBA draft , Simmons was selected first by the Philadelphia 76ers . His selection by the Sixers was certain a few days before the draft. Simmons missed the 2016/17 season entirely due to a foot injury sustained during pre -season , which is why the 2017/18 NBA season is considered his rookie season.

In his debut season, Simmons led the 76ers to third place in the Eastern Conference with 52 wins. He was next to center Joel Embiid the most important player on the team and reached 15.8 points, 8.1 rebounds, 8.2 assists, 1.7 steals and 0.9 blocks per game in the regular season . He also recorded twelve triple doubles . The Australian was named Rookie of the Month four times during the season in the Eastern Conference and was appointed to the NBA All-Rookie First Team at the end of the season . In the playoffs , the 76ers reached the second round, where they were subject to the Boston Celtics . In ten playoff games, Simmons recorded 16.3 points, 9.4 rebounds and 7.7 assists and posted a triple-double against Miami at the end of April with 17 points, 13 rebounds and ten basket assists as the first league newcomer since Magic Johnson in 1980 a game of the playoffs. This performance was rewarded with the election of Rookie of the Year at the end of the season .

Since the beginning of his NBA career, Simmons' three-point throw was considered his greatest weakness. His first three (after 17 failed attempts in two seasons) he only met at the beginning of his third season, on November 21, 2019 in the game against New York Knicks . In addition, Simmons' throws are mostly limited to the immediate vicinity of the basket.

National team

In 2012 he took part with the Australian national team at the U-17 World Cup in Lithuania and won the silver medal. A year later he played with Australia's men's national team at the Oceania Championship .

statistics

Main round

Legend
  GP Matches played (Games Played)   GS  Games from the beginning (Games started)  MPG  Graduated minutes per game (Minutes per game)
 FG%  Throw rate from the field (field goal percentage)  3P%  Throwing quota three-point throws (3-point field-goal percentage)  FT%  Free throw rate (free-throw percentage)
 RPG  Rebounds per game (rebounds per game)  APG  Assists per game (assists per game)  SPG  Steals per game (steals per game)
 BPG  Blocks per game (blocks per game)  PPG  Points per game (points per game)  FAT  Career record
season team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2017-18 Philadelphia 81 81 33.7 .545 .000 .560 8.1 8.2 1.7 0.9 15.8
2018–19 Philadelphia 79 79 34.2 .563 .000 .600 8.8 7.7 1.4 0.8 16.9
total 160 160 34.0 .554 .000 .583 8.5 7.9 1.6 0.8 16.4

Play-offs

season team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2017-18 Philadelphia 10 10 36.9 .488 .000 .707 9.4 7.7 1.7 0.8 16.3
2018–19 Philadelphia 12 12 35.1 .621 .575 7.1 6.0 1.3 1.0 13.9
total 22nd 22nd 35.9 .552 .000 .653 8.1 6.8 1.5 0.9 15.0

Awards and Achievements

Personal

Simmons has three sisters and two brothers. His brother Liam was the assistant coach of the basketball team at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar , Missouri . His father, Dave Simmons, is a former professional basketball player from New York who played in Australia for 13 years. There he met his wife, Ben's mother.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ben Simmons Stats | Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
  2. ^ Hall of Fame - Box Hill Senior Secondary School. In: www.bhssc.vic.edu.au. Retrieved March 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ 2013 Jordan Brand Classic. In: The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 8, 2016 .
  4. ↑ No. 4 recruit Simmons commits to LSU for 2015. In: ESPN.com. Retrieved March 8, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Men's Basketball Signs Nation's No. 1 player. In: LSUsports.net. Retrieved March 8, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Ben Simmons - Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year 2014-2015. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gatorade.com
  7. ↑ 2015 Games Results :: McDonald's (R) All American Games - A Basketball Rite of Passage (TM). In: www.mcdonaldsallamerican.com. Retrieved March 8, 2016 .
  8. ↑ LSU - Season Statistics. In: www.lsusports.net. Retrieved June 24, 2016 .
  9. ↑ #PHILAfirst: Sixers Select Simmons | Philadelphia 76ers. Retrieved June 24, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Injury Update: Ben Simmons Fractures Bone in Foot | Philadelphia 76ers . In: Philadelphia 76ers . ( nba.com [accessed December 16, 2016]).
  11. ↑ NBA.com Staff: Philadelphia 76ers announce Ben Simmons done for season - NBA.com. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Shaun Powell: Philadelphia 76ers peaking as playoffs approach, but are they too young to be taken seriously? NBA.com, April 11, 2018, accessed April 12, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Philadelphia 76ers Stats . In: Philadelphia 76ers . ( nba.com [accessed April 13, 2018]).
  14. ↑ 76ers' Simmons on ROY: 'Me, 100 percent' . In: ESPN.com . ( espn.com [accessed April 13, 2018]).
  15. ↑ http://www.nba.com/article/2018/04/12/76ers-ben-simmons-jazz-donovan-mitchell-rookies-month-official-release
  16. ↑ 76ers at Celtics
  17. ↑ Ben Simmons records first playoff triple-double for a rookie since Magic Johnson in 1980 . In: USA TODAY . ( usatoday.com [accessed June 5, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Franziska Wendler: Harden MVP - LeBron comes away empty-handed. NBA Awards: James Harden is awarded MVP, Ben Simmons and Dwane Casey. On: Sport1 website; Ismaning, June 26, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  19. ↑ 76ers' Ben Simmons drains first career NBA 3-pointer. ESPN, November 21, 2019, accessed December 9, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Ben Simmons - Basketball Australia. In: Basketball Australia. Retrieved March 8, 2016 (American English).
  21. ↑ Australia | 2013 FIBA ​​Oceania Championship for Men | ARCHIVE.FIBA.COM. In: www.fiba.com. Retrieved March 8, 2016 .
  22. ^ Southwest Baptist University Athletics - 2015-16 Men's Basketball Coaching Staff. In: www.sbubearcats.com. Retrieved March 8, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Ben Simmons Bio. In: LSUsports.net. Retrieved March 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Simmons, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simmons, Benjamin David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Victoria , Australia