Ben Simmons’s name has mostly been in headlines for fishing-related reasons in the last year. But that changed over the weekend.
Reports emerged late on Sunday night that Simmons, the No. 1 pick of the 2016 draft, has his sights set on an NBA comeback. The former 76ers guard was last with the Clippers, playing the last part of the 2024–25 season in Los Angeles and appearing in a few playoff games before going unsigned that offseason. He hasn’t made a peep in the basketball world since. Simmons did buy a controlling stake in a championship-winning fishing team, the South Florida Sails of the Sports Fishing Championship, which led to an understandable assumption that his basketball career was over; there are few activities that scream retirement more than buying a fishing team.
