After undergoing a surgery that kept him out of the NBA season's final month, Shabazz Napier is finally ready to return, but he'll start with summer league.
Shabazz Napier is in preparation mode. After missing the last month of the regular season due to undergoing an operation to repair a sports hernia, Napier finally believes as if he's ready to go.
However with the NBA's next season still months away, Napier's preparation comes with returning to the NBA's summer league in Orlando on July 4th. According to Ira Winderman of the Sun Sentinel, Napier believes a lot of his preparation will be of the mental variety, saying:
"My plan is to play summer league," he said after the first of two autograph sessions.