The day Dante Exum loped into Salt Lake City as a fresh-faced kid, a newly drafted rookie, there was excitement all around him, in the minds of fans, in the minds of teammates and coaches, and in his own mind, too, even in his body parts too, the same ones that shortly thereafter began to betray him.
Latest news from team doctors is that the Jazz’s former No. 5 overall pick in the 2014 draft has a partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee and that he is out indefinitely. Again. The injury was suffered after he had already sat out a large part of this season with a severe ankle sprain.