Zach Lowe reports Wednesday night that the new Collective Bargaining Agreement contains a “side letter” specifically granting Ben Simmons a year of NBA service for his holdout season of 2021-22 despite not playing a single game for either the 76ers or Nets.
Lowe wrote:
The NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement, released late last month ahead of free agency, came with a previously undisclosed side letter indicating Ben Simmons has received credit for a year of service for the season in which he held out from the Philadelphia 76ers and was eventually traded to the Brooklyn Nets, sources familiar with the matter told ESPN on Wednesday.