DETROIT – After what he experienced nearly two months ago, it must have been like a déjà vu moment for Dallas Mavericks guard Dante Exum.
Exum missed the Jan. 7 home game against Minnesota with a sprained right plantar fascia, then missed six games from Jan. 9-22 with a sprained right plantar. He also missed three games from Jan. 27-29 with soreness in his right knee, missed 10 games from Jan. 31 — and Feb. 5-27 — with right knee bursitis.
And that’s not including the Dec. 22 game at Houston which Exum missed with a lower left leg contusion, along with the two games he missed from Jan.