Trail Blazers rookie Shaedon Sharpe played just six minutes in his Summer League debut on Thursday before sustaining a left shoulder injury, according to Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports, who tweets that Sharpe is expected to undergo an MRI to assess the severity of the injury.
Sharpe, who was technically enrolled at Kentucky for his first and only college season in 2021/22, never actually played for the team, making him one of the biggest mysteries of this year’s draft. However, Portland was willing to bet on his upside, making him the No. 7 overall pick last month.
Fans and league observers eager to watch Sharpe during the Las Vegas Summer League might only end up getting a brief glimpse — even if the 19-year-old’s shoulder injury isn’t serious, the Blazers may play it safe and shut him down for the rest of the event.
Sharpe signed his rookie scale contract last Friday, locking in a $6MM+ guaranteed salary for 2022/23.
Dear Cavs Fan,
Are you TRULY happy with what the team has done this year? Sure I think we drafted well in Agbali. Sure we locked up Garland? Great we’ll have Rubio back at some time this or next year. But what have we done to IMPROVE the team? This team was great defensively as a top 7 team in opponents points allowed. With Allen and Mobley back we should be good defensively again. However if we seriously have aspirations to be a true contenders then we have to improve our offense which was a bottom 5 team last year 25th out of 30th. Last year we really relied on Garland way too much especially in the 2nd half when he played 38 min which led the nba. We are solid at every position except SG. Agbali COULD slide over there but he’s more of a SF and has yet to prove himself.. I get they want to save some money but let’s other the guy a 4/$80 contract so we all can feel good. let’s see what that group can do together. It’s worth it because 24 ppg is hard to find in Cleveland. No top FA is coming.
Why…Why did you post this here? What have the cavs done to you to make you post this on an article about Shaedon Sharpe?
This team just needs time, they’re young and will only continue to get better as they age into their peak.
It’s 7 am on the west coast bro chill lol
I am not happy. Seems as though so many teams have gotten better. NO, Atlanta, Portland, Clippers, etc but the Cavs decided to just run it back and maybe even without Sexton again.
A comment so nice, you posted it twice.
you’re completely right and my apologies. I thought I was posting on the Rubio board. please forgive.
All good brother. As I said on the Cavs article, good analysis and good post. Well said.
Another red flag….
The play where he got hurt, I thought maybe his hand got caught in a jersey, but I couldn’t see what effected him. His arm pretty much immediately started hanging, which makes me think maybe separated shoulder or possibly even torn labrum? But what even happened? He took a little bump right before, but nothing out of the ordinary, and seemed fine. Then the play where he reached a little and came up with the arm…did anyone maybe see what actually happened? I thought he looked good in certain areas I was hoping to see improvement in before it happened…
He is going to end up the greatest player that never plays a game after high school.
Get used to it. HS draftees are coming back soon. They won’t even have a year practicing with a college team, which at a minimum gave the player some period to detox from his time with the AAU butt boys.
Hurt already ?????
Lol. This as well as extending declining Dame, big yikes!
Man what happened to people…cant just talk about what happened, but have to say something about high school or laugh at the injury…this is the level we’re just at now…