Former NBA star Ben Simmons recently teased a potential comeback in an Instagram post, as Johnny Askounis of Eurohoops relays. I embrace all of it,” Simmons wrote alongside a picture of himself near a basketball hoop. He told Men’s Health in late June that he was still contemplating an NBA comeback, but he didn’t have a specific team in mind. The first overall pick of the 2016 draft, Simmons missed the entire 2016/17 season after fracturing the fifth metatarsal in his right foot in training camp. However, Simmons missed the entire 2021/22 campaign due to a holdout and back injury, which required surgery in May 2022.