SALT LAKE CITY — It wasn’t planned this way, but it was a bit coincidental that the night Dante Exum returned to the lineup for the Utah Jazz, the opponent was the Phoenix Suns, the same team the Jazz were playing the night Exum went out with his shoulder injury that kept him out for more than five months.
It was back on Oct. 6 when the Jazz were playing their third preseason game when Exum injured his shoulder after a collision with the Suns’ T.J. Warren.
Exum was trying a left-handed layup from the right side and just after he let the ball go, Warren came flying down the lane and his 6-8 225-pound body landed on Exum, who immediately writhed around on the floor, holding his left shoulder.