NBA bust purchases stake in competitive fishing club amid basketball struggles

An NBA prodigy-turned-bust has different vocation connected his mind.

Ben Simmons was named to 3 All-Star Games successful his archetypal 5 NBA seasons and was a antiaircraft stalwart, but abruptly became a travesty.

Simmons, inactive conscionable 29 years old, has not played this play but has been progressive elsewhere, purchasing an ownership involvement successful the Sports Fishing Championship's South Florida Sails Angling Club. Simmons grew up successful Australia, wherever sportfishing was a regular activity.

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Los Angeles Clippers defender Ben Simmons during the 3rd 4th against the Sacramento Kings astatine Golden 1 Center.  (Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita/Imagn Images)

"I person ever believed that investing successful what you emotion means you person a work to assistance determination it forward," Simmons said successful a statement. "Sportfishing has fixed maine unthinkable experiences, and SFC is creating a level that treats offshore sportfishing similar the elite athletics it is."

Simmons told Andscape that the SFC is the "LIV Golf" and "F1" of fishing.

"The archetypal existent competitory athletics sportfishing championship. It’s a league of 16 teams, which is increasing and expanding. And so, we’ll spell retired determination and vie successful assorted antithetic tournaments, and there’ll beryllium a champion crowned astatine the end. It’s a point-scored system. So, you’re sportfishing for achromatic marlin, bluish marlin, sailfish and striped marlin. There are each antithetic constituent systems for each one," Simmons told the outlet.

Brooklyn Nets injured defender Ben Simmons (10) during a clip retired during the 3rd 4th against the Atlanta Hawks astatine Barclays Center. (Brad Penner/USA TODAY Sports)

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"It’s a precise niche sport. And if you don’t know, you don’t know. But erstwhile you acquisition it and get retired determination and spot what it’s about, you’re benignant of successful awe of what the athletics is. And that’s conscionable thing I’ve ever been funny successful in presumption of the athletics of fishing. The technique. And there’s truthful overmuch to it that radical conscionable don’t understand. These guys are sportfishing connected million-dollar vessels, and they’re retired for days astatine a time. So, it’s tedious and gritty, but a batch of fun. It’s 1 of those worlds wherever you conscionable got to benignant of acquisition it, get into it and spot what it’s about."

Simmons, who was drafted archetypal wide by the Philadelphia 76ers successful 2016, spent six seasons with them but didn't play successful 2 of them. He missed his rookie twelvemonth owed to injuries, and helium missed the 2021-22 run owed to injuries and a holdout. With Philadelphia, helium was a triple-double threat, averaging 15.9 points, 8.1 rebounds, and 7.7 assists.

He was past portion of the blockbuster James Harden commercialized that sent him to the Brooklyn Nets wherever the flameout officially began. With Brooklyn, successful 90 games spanning 4 seasons, helium averaged 6.5 points, 6.3 assists, and 6.2 rebounds.

Ben Simmons of the Brooklyn Nets prepares to sprout a escaped propulsion against the Philadelphia 76ers during a preseason crippled connected Oct. 3, 2022, astatine Barclays Center successful Brooklyn, New York.  (Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)

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Simmons played 18 games for the Los Angeles Clippers past season, and those numbers were chopped by much than half.

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