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Ben Simmons exits to locker room with apparent injury (0:21)

Ben Simmons was forced to leave the game early in the second quarter and did not return to the game. There is a 0:21

9:16 PM ET

Brooklyn Nets swingman Ben Simmons did not return to the game after leaving due to left knee soreness.

Simmons has missed six games this season because of the same injury.

Simmons asked to leave because he was having some pain in his knee. Simmons will be listed as day-to-day on Tuesday, but he doesn't think he'll need another magnetic resonance device.

Simmons has been playing his best basketball of the season since he returned to the floor after missing a game.

Simmons only played 12 minutes in Monday's game.

The Nets are already playing without big man Yuta Watanabe, who is out with a right leg injury. The Nets coach said before the game that the results of the second magnetic resonance on Watanabe's left leg wouldn't be known until later in the day.