# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-simmons
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:08:19.367Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-simmons"
name: "Ben Simmons"
slug: "ben-simmons"
description: "Benjamin David Simmons is an Australian professional basketball player who last played for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for one season with the LSU Tigers, after which he was named a consensus first-team All-American and the USBWA National Freshman of the Year. Simmons was selected with the first overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers. After sitting out a year due to an injured right foot, he was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2018 and was selected three times to the NBA All-Star Game. After a holdout from the 76ers following the 2020–21 season, Simmons was traded to the Brooklyn Nets. His contract was bought out by the Nets in February 2025, and Simmons subsequently signed with the Clippers."
tagline: "Australian basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Simmons_for_the_Brooklyn_Nets_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1996-07-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           74.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.57092133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  31
  category: 18
totalFollowers: 84700
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/BenSimmons25"
    handle:    "BenSimmons25"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
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    handle:    "bensimmons"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/ben.simmons.025"
    handle:    "ben.simmons.025"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJrQyUk8tE8zr0wL7nxps2A"
    handle:    "@bensimmons"
    followers: 84700
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Симмонс, Бен"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump