Dante Exum Crumbles on the Court, Suffers Apparent Knee Injury

Dante Exum, the Utah Jazz lottery pick in 2014, appeared to suffer a serious knee injury in an exhibition game for Australia in Slovenia. As Exum drives into the lane, he plants his left leg and it just sort of crumbles in agony. He was taken to the locker room, and according to the Utah Jazz, Exum is going to fly back to Salt Lake City to be further evaluated.

This is what Exum looked like after the injury:

@AndrewDBailey @tribjazz His knee is heavily taped. Crutches are also there. pic.twitter.com/Rg6garmVhJ
— Damir Radenovic (@MrDee25) August 4, 2015

Maybe this is a minor tweak. Hopefully it isn’t major. Exum struggled for much of his rookie year, but by all accounts he was going to head into the preseason in October with a job to win the starting point guard job over Trey Burke.