Edmond Sumner has proven this preseason that he is a good NBA basketball player. His stock is on the rise, and his improvements make him the perfect insurance policy should an actual rotation player get injured this season for the Indiana Pacers.
This has seemingly come from nowhere, at least on NBA standards. Many good NBA draft scouts had Sumner as a lock first round pick before he tore his ACL in January of 2017. 16 months later, he concluded his first ever NBA season, playing for just two minutes and scoring only one basket.