After he signed a one-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets following a strong performance in the Orlando Summer League, hopes were high for Willie Reed amongst fans in New York.
Right off the bat, however, there were bumps in the road. A couple of weeks before the start of the regular season, Reed tore a tendon in his thumb and was forced to undergo surgery. When he made his NBA debut on December 4th, hype began to build once again after he had posted eight points in just 11 minutes of play.
The stop and start frequency of the hype that surrounded him throughout the early part of the season was a forecast of things to come and now as we see the season nearing its end, it feels like we haven’t seen nearly enough of Reed to make a judgement on him for the future.