NEW YORK — After receiving an epidural to help alleviate pain and tightness in his lower back, Nets forward Ben Simmons is further from returning to the floor now than he was two weeks ago.
Simmons, the 25-year-old All-Star forward who arrived in Brooklyn from Philadelphia via the James Harden trade, has regressed from just doing individual work at team practices and is not practicing at all, Nets head coach Steve Nash said on Friday.
The regression happened after Simmons had what Nash has called “a flare-up” in his lower back, a situation that has grown more serious than Nash and the Nets had let on earlier this season.
