Ben Simmons

Ben Simmons
	Simmons with the Brooklyn Nets in 2022
No. 10 – Brooklyn Nets
Position	Point guard
League	NBA
Personal information
Born	20 July 1996 (age 27); Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Listed height	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Listed weight	240 lb (109 kg)
Career information
High school	Box Hill Senior Secondary College; (Melbourne, Victoria); Montverde Academy; (Montverde, Florida);
College	LSU (2015–2016)
NBA draft	2016: 1st round, 1st overall pick
	Selected by the Philadelphia 76ers
Playing career	2016–present
Career history
2016–2022	Philadelphia 76ers
2022–present	Brooklyn Nets
Career highlights and awards
	3× NBA All-Star (2019–2021); All-NBA Third Team (2020); 2× NBA All-Defensive First Team (2020, 2021); NBA Rookie of the Year (2018); NBA All-Rookie First Team (2018); NBA steals leader (2020); Consensus first-team All-American (2016); USBWA National Freshman of the Year (2016); First-team All-SEC (2016); SEC Freshman of the Year (2016); National high school player of the year (2015); McDonald's All-American (2015); First-team Parade All-American (2015);
	Stats at NBA.com
	Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Men's basketball
Representing Australia
FIBA Oceania Championship
FIBA World U17 Championship

Benjamin David Simmons (born July 20, 1996) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for one season with the LSU Tigers, after which he was named a consensus first-team All-American and the USBWA National Freshman of the Year. Simmons was selected with the first overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers. After sitting out a year due to an injured right foot, he was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2018 and was selected three times to the NBA All-Star Game. As the result of a holdout from the 76ers following the 2020–21 season, which led him to be traded to the Nets, Simmons is the most-fined player in NBA history, in terms of total financial loss.

Simmons attended Box Hill Senior Secondary College in his hometown of Melbourne, Victoria, before moving to the United States to attend Montverde Academy in Montverde, Florida. In his only season in college, LSU began the season with high expectations, but they failed to qualify for the NCAA tournament. Simmons left school to enter the NBA draft, becoming the third Melbourne-born number one overall pick (following Andrew Bogut and Kyrie Irving) in 11 years. Simmons is the son of an American-born father, Dave, who played professional basketball in Australia. A dual citizen of Australia and the United States, Simmons has played for the Australian national team.