When the Utah Jazz selected Dante Exum with the No. 5 overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, many fans were elated. Exum was being hyped as one of the league’s next up-and-coming stars, and the fact that he was available at all by the time the Jazz selected was an incredible surprise.
Unfortunately, thus far in his career, he’s come far from living up to the expectations thrust upon him when he was drafted. By and large, those shortcomings have come as a result of several injuries which have in essence forced Dante to hit the reset button year after year after year.