Beijing time on April 22 news, after multiple confirmations, Ben Simmons will return in the fourth game of the Brooklyn Nets and Boston Celtics series, not the third game.
Shams Charania, a well-known sports media personality, said that Simmons did not return in the G3 game because he needed to play in three intra-team confrontation games before the Nets made a new assessment of his physical condition. He's already in two of the games this week, Tuesday and Thursday, and the Nets are training tomorrow, so that will be Simmons' third game.
According to Previously reported by The Athletic, Simmons' goal is to return in Races 4 to 6. On Tuesday, local time, Nets coach Steve Nash mentioned that Simmons has been allowed to participate in 4v4 confrontation training, and his physical recovery has made great progress. From another perspective, this just confirms the possibility of Simmons' first-round comeback.
Industry insiders expect That Simmons' comeback will bring significant improvements to the Nets' defense and will also allow Durant to focus more on offense.
At present, the Nets are 0-2 behind the Celtics, and if they lose the next third game, in fact, the significance of Simmons' comeback is not very large, because there has never been a team in the history of the NBA that has fallen behind 0-3 and successfully overturned.