{"id":844491,"date":"2026-09-26T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/844491\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:14:18","slug":"scott-perry-says-healthy-ben-simmons-wants-nba-comeback-because-he-misses-playing-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/844491\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Perry says healthy Ben Simmons wants NBA comeback because he &#8216;misses playing basketball&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Perry: &#8220;Ben Simmons is healthy now and he is really looking to make a comeback in the game. It is really interesting, just looking for the right place. When I received that call, I was home in Florida and next thing I know, we get connected with Ben. He reaches out, I reach out to him, so we decide to drive down to Miami and watch him work out. This is important, watching him work out, getting a chance to spend an hour or so with him just talking and hearing from him about his journey, also asking him why, what is his why now? The guy had made a lot of money in the sport, he had done well, and why was he interested in coming back? A couple of things that came out right away from him is that, hey, Scott, this is the first time I have been healthy in two years. <a data-ylk=\"slk:And secondly, and probably most importantly, obviously the health being very important, but his mental, he said, I just miss playing basketball. I miss competing, I miss being part of a team and I just want to be able to contribute to a team and get back to playing basketball.&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;And secondly, and probably most importantly, obviously the health being very important, but his mental, he said, I just miss playing basketball. I miss competing, I miss being part of a team and I just want to be able to contribute to a team and get back to playing basketball.\\&quot;&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2q5JGSKhbgU&amp;t=184s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">And secondly, and probably most importantly, obviously the health being very important, but his mental, he said, I just miss playing basketball. I miss competing, I miss being part of a team and I just want to be able to contribute to a team and get back to playing basketball.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Perry: &#8220;Ben Simmons is healthy now and he is really looking to make a comeback in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,2643,6,23786,4223],"class_list":["post-844491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-ben-simmons","tag-nba","tag-playing-basketball","tag-scott-perry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117338234262787780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}