Ben Simmons Ruled Out For Season by Sixers

[Ben] Simmons, 20, had a CT scan on his injured right foot Thursday in New York that showed that the foot is not yet fully healed.

He’ll have another scan in about a month, Colangelo said.

“I have always known that there was a desire to get him back on the court when healthy,” Colangelo said. “We’ve always anticipated there would be an opportunity for him to play, hopefully this season.

“But there was always the outside chance that it didn’t happen because there wasn’t complete and full healing. And we weren’t going to put Ben Simmons in a place where he was (susceptible) to a re-fracture.

“There are genetic things that change the healing patterns of people. So if everybody had done their research and saw that most Jones fractures took three to four months, great. But it’s not three to four months in every case, it’s three to four months in most cases.”

Source: Corey Seidman of CSNPhilly.com