When Markelle Fultz goes for his pregame workout these days, there’s no crowd of fans clutching cell phones to record every movement. No clips uploaded to Twitter, no army of followers eager to dissect every Fultz shot — from hand placement to ball arc to follow-through.
For the first two years of his career, that was the often case for the DeMatha product, who played in just 33 games across two seasons after being drafted first overall in 2017. He was sidelined by a mysterious shoulder injury — later diagnosed as “thoracic outlet syndrome.