{"id":32876,"date":"2025-02-09T01:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T01:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/ben-simmons-waived-after-former-no-1-pick-and-brooklyn-nets-agree-to-buyout\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T01:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T01:40:34","slug":"ben-simmons-waived-after-former-no-1-pick-and-brooklyn-nets-agree-to-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/ben-simmons-waived-after-former-no-1-pick-and-brooklyn-nets-agree-to-buyout\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons waived after former No 1 pick and Brooklyn Nets agree to buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Faded three-time All-Star waived, ending Nets career<\/li>\n<li>ESPN reports Simmons could sign with Cavs or Clippers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ben Simmons was waived by the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday after the team agreed to a buyout with the last remaining link to a failed era of building around All-Stars.<\/p>\n<p>The No 1 pick in the 2016 draft was not with the Nets for their victory over the Miami Heat on Friday night as the sides worked on completing the deal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/08\/ben-simmons-waived-nets-clippers-cavaliers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faded three-time All-Star waived, ending Nets career ESPN reports Simmons could sign with Cavs or Clippers Ben Simmons was waived by the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday after the team agreed to a buyout with the last remaining link to a failed era of building around All-Stars. The No 1 pick in the 2016 draft was &#8230; <a title=\"Ben Simmons waived after former No 1 pick and Brooklyn Nets agree to buyout\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/ben-simmons-waived-after-former-no-1-pick-and-brooklyn-nets-agree-to-buyout\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ben Simmons waived after former No 1 pick and Brooklyn Nets agree to buyout\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}