The complaint – which will now go to arbitration – could have a bigger impact on the league amid future mental health issues and NBA contracts. Philadelphia has repeatedly insisted that Simmons violated his contract under the collective agreement between the NBA and the National Basketball Association and had the right to recover the money given to him before the season. The NBA and NBPA have been at loggerheads over this issue, and now arbitration could set a precedent for how to handle future mental health issues and contracts. The deposit was made with the team, the NBA and the NBPA over the weekend, sources said. The 76ers insisted that Simmons had breached his contract with the player when he did not show up for the start of training camp and refused to play during the preseason and regular season. Simmons arrived in Philadelphia near the end of the preseason, but reported his mental health because his participation in group activities was so limited. The 76ers and Simmons disagreed over the degrees of access the team and its doctors had given Simmons to diagnose and confirm his mental health.
1 Relevant In an effort to resolve the issue without arbitration, Simmons representatives had several conversations with the Sixers after the blockbuster trade in Brooklyn for James Harden on February 10, sources said. The talks ended without a resolution, prompting the filing of the complaint, sources said. Simmons and his agent, Rich Paul of Klutch Sports, demanded an exchange in a post-season meeting after the three-time All-Star guard had a feud with the team after a poor performance in a defeat in the Eastern Conference finals. from Atlanta. Simmons, the No. 1 pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, was one of the top defenders in the league and signed a five-year, $ 170 million contract in 2019. Starting with Simmons’s first salary on November 15, Philadelphia began to recoup the $ 360,000 per game salary for every game Simmons lost this season. Because Simmons received a $ 16.5 million advance from his $ 33 million off-season salary, there was not enough money in each salary to cover game bookings. Without the NBA’s bail amount, the 76ers would have withheld nearly $ 1.3 million from Simmons’s salary on each of his salaries. This continued after the trade with the Nets, who were forced to deduct a salary from Simmons’s salary to send wire to the 76ers, sources said. Because Simmons’s last salary is on April 30, bookings will have to be transferred to the offseason. One more time. Simmons will receive a $ 8.25 million deposit on July 1 and October 1. The NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement stipulates that a grievance must be filed within 30 days of the date on which the grievance is based – or within 30 days of the date on which the grievances become known, the CBA championship. It has been six weeks since the Simmons deal from Philadelphia to Brooklyn, but Simmons representatives say they believe the deal did not cause a 30-day window to start a complaint because the issue has been ongoing all season. . Simmons has not played another game for the Nets. He had a previous back injury while trying to improve his preparation to make his Nets debut. Simmons, who had not played since losing in the playoffs in June, received an epidural injection to treat a disc herniation in his back last month. The issue of Simmons’s return and related scans were revealed during the trade talks and did not raise significant long-term issues for the Nets at the time, sources said. The injury first affected Simmons in the spring of the 2020 season, which was cut short by the pandemic. He also reported back pain when he referred to the Sixers training camp in October. The injury was assessed and treated by the doctors of the Philadelphia team and he was allowed to continue his basketball activities a little later. This period was the only time that Philadelphia did not find Simmons violating his contract this season, sources said.
