When I first saw the news, my boyish-fan-boy heart cracked like glass – Dante Exum has a partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee. I saw the headline about the Utah Jazz guard on Friday night when it popped off my Twitter timeline via The Athletic’s Tony Jones. Moments later, something inside me cratered. I’ve always been a Dante believer. But, man oh man, has his career been plagued by bad luck and some stark setbacks. One can’t help but consider labeling the gifted Aussie as injury prone.
There are a few still chanting the series-of-freak-injuries narrative.