Colangelo: Ben Simmons will not play this year

In his post trade deadline press conference, general manager Bryan Colangelo confirmed that Ben Simmons will miss the entirety of his rookie season.

Simmons had a CT scan on Thursday morning, and according to Colangelo, it revealed that his foot is still not fully healed.

Ben Simmons will not play this season, per Bryan Colangelo. "Not full healing."

— Kyle Neubeck (@KyleNeubeck) February 24, 2017 The top pick in the 2016 draft suffered a fracture of the fifth metatarsal bone of his right foot on Sept. 30, and was expected to miss somewhere around 3 months. The team opted to bring him along slowly, but an ESPN report from January indicated that Simmons foot was fully healed, and a return…