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Telling Ben Simmons image leaves NBA fans in awe

Chris Young
·Sports Reporter
·2-min read
Ben Simmons is pictured in a shot from his Instagram account, during a workout.

The NBA is continuing to push to restart their season in a unique 22-team format in the coming weeks, and nobody looks more ready to go than Ben Simmons.

The Australian superstar has used the coronavirus pandemic to recover from a lower back injury he’d sustained earlier this year, and an Instagram post boasting of the 23-year-old’s impressive workouts while on hiatus has left fans salivating.

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The NBA is set to being discussions with the NBA Players’ Association about the resumption of the season in July under the 22-team format.

The NBA's Board of Governors have approved a plan to restart the season, with a tentative July 31 target date, at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

Under the proposal, the 22 teams play eight seeding games to determine a 16-team playoff field that would follow the traditional post-season format with four best-of-seven series.

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With Simmons’ Philadelphia 76ers sitting 6th in Eastern Conference prior to the season being suspended, fans are hoping his trimmed down physique and healed back will be a sign of this to come if and when play resumes.

“Ben Simmons bigger than LeBron. He gonna own the paint,” one fan wrote.

“Who is going to do a damn thing to stop this?? And don’t say the three point line,” wrote another.

Some however, were less charitable - suggesting ‘any degree of distance from the hoop’ would be enough to stop Simmons in his tracks.

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One man ruling himself out of the shortened season, if it resumes, is Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant.

The 10-time All-Star ruptured an Achilles tendon a year ago for Golden State in Game 5 of the NBA Finals against Toronto.

He also had COVID-19 this year.

"My season is over," Durant told The Undefeated on Friday.

"I don't plan on playing at all. We decided last summer when it first happened that I was just going to wait until the following season. I had no plans of playing at all this season."