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Melo Trimble’s Summer League benching shows how difficult making the NBA is

Melo Trimble made his NBA Summer League debut for the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night in Utah. Well, in the physical sense of him being there. He didn’t actually play. Trimble watched from the bench as four guards: No. 1 pick Markelle Fultz, and three other undrafted players, Isaiah Briscoe, Larry Drew II and Aaron Harrison played on.

Monday night’s healthy scratch doesn’t mean Trimble won’t play at all in Summer League. He’ll get his chance. But for anyone who’s watched him play over the last three years, it’s mind-blowing how someone as talented as Trimble didn’t play in a basketball game of any kind.