All-Star guard/ahead Ben Simmons will not have the ability to take part in staff actions with the Philadelphia 76ers till not less than Friday after ending his weeks-long standoff with the staff, ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne studies.
Ben Simmons handed his bodily and held a quick assembly with the Sixers entrance workplace on Tuesday, however stays ineligible to take part in team-related actions till Friday on account of NBA well being and security protocols, sources advised ESPN. https://t.co/cfK1MpKs0O
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) October 13, 2021
Shelburne studies the wait is because of NBA well being and security protocols.
ESPN studies a participant who’s totally vaccinated towards COVID-19 should return one damaging take a look at, whereas an unvaccinated participant will need to have two damaging checks for particular person exercises and two extra damaging checks to be in a staff surroundings.
Simmons reported to the staff on Monday, in accordance with ESPN.
The membership didn’t pay Simmons the $8.25 million he was owed Oct. 1, in accordance with a number of studies.
Simmons’ contract, a five-year, $177 million pact signed in 2019, was structured to incorporate a collection of 25 per cent payouts. The $8.25 million determine represents the second of those installments. Simmons had already been paid the primary 25 per cent of the cash owed to him for the season, in accordance with Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report.
The cash the 76ers have withheld from Simmons has been put in an escrow account, in accordance with Tim Bontemps, Brian Windhorst and Bobby Marks of ESPN, with any fines Simmons accrues being deducted from that quantity.
For every recreation Simmons misses, he would forfeit $227,613. That forfeiture, in accordance with Marks, won’t come out of the $8.25 million escrow Philadelphia has established.
