Brooklyn Nets' Ben Simmons doesn't need to apologize for exit from Philadelphia 76ers, Seth Curry says

NEW YORK — As Ben Simmons begins a new chapter in his career with the Brooklyn Nets, questions about the divorce he experienced with the Philadelphia 76ers linger.

But as those questions about how he'll fit with a new team after such a spectacular exit with an old one continue to filter through the league, one of the players who has experienced both parts of the journey with the 25-year-old All-Star guard insists that Simmons doesn't need to apologize for decisions he made in the past.

Seth Curry, who was acquired by the Nets along with Simmons, Andre Drummond and two future first-round picks in the deal that sent James Harden to Philadelphia, said Simmons will be just fine in a new setting in Brooklyn and that he didn't feel any air needed to be cleared as the pair started together again with the Nets.

«Business is business,» Curry told ESPN after Thursday's shootaround. «I said from day [one], even when he was out early in the season, people were asking me if I feel like, if Ben comes back, should he apologize to us or whatever? I understand the business; he doesn't need to apologize to anybody. When he's on the court, I know he's going to do his job and he's going to do what he does. So I understand the business. He was doing what he felt was best for himself business-wise and personal-wise.

»And the team's going to do the same thing as far as making trades or whatever, so I understand it, I've been around it; I don't take anything personal. When we're on the court, we're teammates. Everything's fine. And we depend on each other to do good things. There's been nothing negative he's done to me personally, so I'm fine."

Curry's comments come in the wake of former teammate Danny Green saying on his «Inside the Green