Ben Simmons buys a Pro Fishing Team while waiting on the right situation if the NBA calls him again

Ben Simmons didn’t land on an NBA roster this season, but that doesn’t mean he’s been sitting around doing nothing. Instead, Simmons has gone in a very different direction and bought himself a professional fishing team.

Ben Simmons is now the controlling operator of the South Florida Sails, a team in the Sport Fishing Championship, a league founded in 2021 that already includes celebrity owners like Randy Moss and Scottie Scheffler.

If you’re wondering how we got from a generational basketball player and a “max contract point forward” to “deep-sea fishing executive,” you’re not alone.

According to Ben Simmons, this isn’t some random impulse buy. He’s genuinely into it.

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“It’s a very niche sport. And if you don’t know, you don’t know,” Simmons told Marc J. Spears of Andscape. “But once you experience it, you’re kind of in awe. These guys are fishing on million-dollar vessels, out for days at a time. It’s gritty, it’s technical, and it’s something I’ve always been interested in.”

We have come a long ways since the bubble… lol

That quote actually explains a lot. Fishing is quiet. Fishing is methodical. Fishing doesn’t require shooting a basketball in front of 20,000 people. Fishing might be the most Ben Simmons sport imaginable and who knows? Maybe this is what finally gets him mentally tough enough to revisit basketball.

On that note, Ben Simmons insists this doesn’t mean he’s done with basketball. He says he’s still hopeful an NBA opportunity could come around the All-Star break, but only if it’s the “right situation.” That line should sound very familiar by now and at the end of the day, Simmons coming back to Philadelphia to “complete the process” is still top of mind here at The Liberty Line. A lot of you will hate that idea, but who doesn’t love the perfect storybook ending?

For the moment, though, Ben Simmons appears perfectly content running a fishing operation while the league figures out whether it wants to give him another shot.

The 30-year-old split last season between the Nets and Clippers, averaging 5.0 points, 5.6 assists, and 4.7 rebounds in limited minutes.

Whether his current free-agent status is by choice or circumstance remains unclear, but what is clear is that Simmons isn’t exactly living in basketball limbo.

If nothing else, this checks out. When NBA doors close, Ben Simmons finds another lane entirely. Sometimes it’s fashion. Sometimes it’s real estate. Now it’s professional fishing.

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