The first time Dante Exum took the floor in plain view as a member of the Utah Jazz was during a summer league scrimmage in July, 2014.
The last time, as in the most recent, was Wednesday night when the Jazz played Houston in the fourth game of the 2018-19 season.
Exum’s road from the first to the last has been circuitous, but hardly serendipitous, not to any advantage. Unless, of course, bad fortune now leads to good, a turn that may already have begun. It’s long overdue. He did sign a three-year, $33 million deal, maximum value with incentives, with the Jazz during the offseason, so there is that.