In an interview with Fred Kerber, Caris LeVert wouldn’t step back from his teammate’s playoff prediction.
“I feel like it’s really realistic,” said LeVert, echoing what Jeremy Lin said in TWO Asian nations, Taiwan and China. “Last year, we were like top seven in the East when we had all our players healthy. Just building off that momentum with the pieces we’ve added — obviously we lost a great player in Brook [Lopez] — but I feel with the pieces we’ve added we’ll be in that conversation.”
LeVert, Kerber jokingly confirmed, was “not still under the influence of surgical anesthesia,” a reference to the swingman’s multiple foot surgeries, which now seem to be a thing of the past.