![]() And on December 15, a number of trade restrictions for players who signed new deals this offseason will lapse.Īs The Ringer's Kevin O'Connor noted, over 80 percent of the league will be tradable starting Wednesday. We're well into the regular season, when stats start to mean something and contenders are separating themselves from the field. ![]() “It’s on me.It's the most wonderful time of the year, and that's a phrase that carries some extra weight for NBA fans. “No idea about any of that,” Simmons said. February matched the best free-throw-shooting month of his career with him going 45 of 64, a 70% clip.īut he shot 53% after the break and has seen the numbers continue to plummet in the playoffs. And it wasn’t a big issue in the first half of this season, when he was shooting 67% at the All-Star break. 1 overall pick in the 2016 draft, has never been an exceptional foul shooter he’s always been between 56% and 62% in each of his pro seasons. The Los Angeles Clippers have missed 46, as a team, through 12 games. That’s more than three total teams have missed in their first 10 games of this postseason Atlanta missed 35, Phoenix missed 29 and Brooklyn missed 22. Simmons has missed 45 free throws in 10 playoff games. “When Ben makes them, we get to keep him in,” Rivers said. The 76ers have lost those games by a total of 10 points.ħ6ers coach Doc Rivers has even had to take Simmons out late in some games, including Game 5, because the likelihood of him getting intentionally sent to the line and missing free throws is just too risky. In Philadelphia’s three losses to Atlanta in this series, he’s a combined 8 for 29 from the foul line. Simmons’s 10 misses from the line in Game 5 were the most by any player in any NBA game this season. Inside the NBA: What's to come from 76ers' collapse?Īfter the 76ers' drop Game 5 in historic fashion, how does Philadelphia rebound and stave off elimination? Otherwise, Simmons stands alone right now when it comes to foul-line futility. He was 18 for 66 that spring, just 27.3%. Of those, someone has finished below 50% only 23 times, below than 40% only five other times - three by Wilt Chamberlain, two by O’Neal.Ĭhamberlain and O’Neal are all-time greats, and another Hall of Famer - Ben Wallace, part of the 2021 class - would have been worse if he took 67 free throws in the 2006 playoffs. There have been, entering Thursday, 804 other instances in NBA history of a player taking at least 67 free throws in a single postseason. Game 6 of the series is Friday in Atlanta, with the top-seeded 76ers now in a win-or-go-home scenario since they trail the best-of-seven 3-2. “Obviously, I’ve got to knock down free throws,” Simmons said. ![]() ![]() The next lowest percentage, among those with at least 67 foul shots in a postseason, is Shaquille O’Neal’s 37.4% for Miami in 2006 - when the Heat wound up winning the NBA championship anyway. He’s down to 32.8% after going 4-for-14 in Philadelphia’s Game 5 loss to Atlanta in the Eastern Conference semifinals on Wednesday night - and nobody in NBA playoff history, with that many attempts in single postseason, has ever been worse. The Philadelphia guard is 22 for 67 from the line so far in this postseason. ![]() (AP) - Ben Simmons’ foul-shooting woes so far in the playoffs aren’t just obvious. Ben Simmons is shooting 32.8% from the free-throw line during the playoffs. ![]()
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