Cameron Johnson on Ben Simmons: 'He's probably one of the fastest players in the league up and down the court'

Ian Begley: Nets are listing Cam Johnson as probable for game vs BOS. Ben Simmons (hip) is questionable. -via Twitter @IanBegley / November 9, 2023

Brian Lewis: Asked Jacque Vaughn if he expects Ben Simmons to be ready Friday at the #Celtics: “It’s going to be just really how he responds. He’ll get treatment tonight. We get the day in between Boston he’ll get treatment tomorrow. And I’ll touch base with him see how he’s feeling.” #Nets -via Twitter @NYPost_Lewis / November 8, 2023

Ian Begley: Nets say Ben Simmons is out tonight due to hip soreness. -via Twitter @IanBegley / November 8, 2023

Cam, last time we spoke to you were a Phoenix Sun now you’re a Brooklyn Net. How the hell did this happen? [Laughs] Cameron Johnson: Man, you know how this league is, anything can happen. It’s not like the trade came completely out of left field, you know what I mean, it’s not like I’m sitting down minding my business, nothing’s on the radar and then boom! That trade was on the table since KD initially requested a trade back in June, so it was always a possibility. It’s just as you get down to the trade deadline with like 12 hours to go you don’t know what’s going to happen, 1:00 a.m., like you’re just getting ready for bed for a game the next day, you’re not expecting it to happen in that moment so in the moment it’s like wow!, like what just happened. -via YouTube / November 10, 2023

Cameron Johnson: We had a lot of guys missing so there was a huge chunk of the season where Mikal was relied on a ton to do a lot of things you know be an engine of the team, so it was a great opportunity for him to take everything that he’s ever worked on and just put it into practice. So we finally get everybody back we play one game against Brooklyn with our starting lineup, the first time since early November that we played it before the trade, so obviously you give Mikal all that freedom leading up to that. He’s a guy that’s always in the gym, always working, always advancing, always looking for ways to get better, he was on the ground and he’s a film guy too so he’s taking everything that he’s working on and he’s learning from it and he’s getting better so you put him in Brooklyn where he has a chance to really fully show what he what he can do and he was just ready for that opportunity, plain and simple. People ask me this all the time like ‘what happened there?’ I’m like he didn’t change, it wasn’t like he magically just acquired some skill like he had been working on this the whole time, like this is the player that he has been working to become this whole time, he gets the opportunity and ‘Boom!’, he was prepared for it. And I’d say the same thing for myself. -via YouTube / November 10, 2023

Tidal League: “Bron is where you learn there is really levels to the game of basketball…He just knows the game.” – Cam Johnson Is 2018 LeBron the best version of Bron we’ve ever seen? (Via: Run Your Race) -via Twitter / November 10, 2023