Injuries are unfortunate in sports. They can derail a team’s entire season or a player’s entire career.
However, the flip side is that players from the bench get a chance to shine. Such has been the case this past month and a half for former Kentucky Wildcats forward Trey Lyles.
Lyles was traded by the Jazz to the Nuggets this past summer for Donovan Mitchell, which have led many to proclaim that it was a terrible trade for the Nuggets. That is based on Mitchell’s great rookie season so far, but fans should be careful to label the trade a bad deal for Denver.