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Trail Blazers Bank on Upside with Sharpe Selection

The Trail Blazers selected Kentucky commit Shaedon Sharpe with the No. 7 pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. Sharpe, who did not play in a game with Kentucky last season, is one of the biggest mysteries selected in the lottery in recent memory. Despite that uncertainty, Sharpe is regarded as one of the most gifted athletes in the entire 2022 draft class.

If you are looking for a traditional scouting report, I featured Sharpe in a pre-draft profile back in April. Given Sharpe’s extremely small sample size of game action, I am unable to expand on that analysis.