It’s been an arduous journey for Victor Oladipo over the last four calendar years.
Since the start of the 2018-19 season, he’s torn his quadriceps (and had surgery) twice, been traded twice to two completely different NBA realms and have dealt with the uphill climb of having to re-establish himself as an NBA player after he made third-team All-NBA in 2017-18.
In 2020-21, Oladipo was dealt from the Indiana Pacers — the third NBA team he’s known, a city where he became beloved — in a four-team megadeal that sent James Harden to the Brooklyn Nets, Jarrett Allen and Taurean Prince to the Cavaliers, Caris LeVert to the Pacers and Oladipo to the Houston Rockets.