One of the most exciting things about the Portland Trail Blazers’ season is the development of second-year pro Shaedon Sharpe.
Sharpe, 20, averaged 9.9 points, three rebounds and 1.2 points per game as a rookie, but those numbers don’t do the last stretch of the season justice. He averaged 23.7 points in the final 10 games of the season, when Damian Lillard was out of the lineup. With Lillard likely gone soon, Sharpe will likely play more like he did at the end of last season than the beginning.
Bleacher Report’s Andy Bailey lists Sharpe with the fifth-highest ceiling in the 2022 NBA Draft class.