Ben Simmons has been diagnosed with a nerve impingement in his back and will be out of action while the Nets determine the best course of treatment.
Simmons will remain out of action while the Nets determine the best long-term course of treatment. The team wouldn’t specify if this is a simple flare-up of the nerve Simmons been dealing with, a new disk herniation like the one that required surgery in May 2022, or an entirely different problem altogether.
“There’s some things I can control and some things I can’t. What I can’t control is the impingement. What I can control is getting this group ready to play. And then in all honesty the realism that he’s not going to join us for the rest of the year, in all honesty.” “If he’s saying 18 months, someone told him that. Someone will say that when you know you’ve got a significant nerve problem,” Dr. Anand told The Post from a speaking engagement in Dublin. “He had a microdiscectomy. … You have an operation to remove a herniated disk that’s pressing on a nerve.
How long is still up in the air, but that 18-month estimate would put Simmons on line for full recovery by November. Vaughn was unsure whether Simmons, who will make $80.2 million the next two seasons, will need further surgery.
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