Upon his arrival in the US, he played college basketball for one season with the Louisiana State University (LSU) Tigers. After that, he was named a Consensus First Team All-American and the USBWA National Freshman of the Year. After that, the 76ers selected him with the first overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft. But in his first year, he had to miss a year due to a right foot injury.
Subtitle: Basketball player Ben Simmons.
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Ben Simmons: biography, family, education
The athlete was born on July 20, 1996 as Benjamin David Simmons in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was born as the youngest son of father Dave and mother Julie. He is of mixed African American ethnicity on his father’s side, while White Australian on his mother’s side. Also, he has five brothers and sisters: Melissa, Emily, Liam, Sean, and Olivia. In which the first four half-siblings are from his mother’s previous marriage.
Also, his father had played college basketball for Oklahoma City University in the United States. He later started playing professionally for the Melbourne Tigers in the Australian National Basketball League in 1989. On the other hand, his mother was a cheerleader.
When he was 18 months old, his family moved to Newcastle where he started playing basketball at the age of seven. At the time, he was on the Newcastle Hunters under-12 representative team and played two more years for Lake Macquarie and Newcastle. In addition to basketball, he had also played junior rugby league. But in his teens, he went on to choose basketball in which he had done great.