Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
I think LeVert is older than most people think. He's obviously not ancient, but Levert will be 27 next season (assuming the season runs a bit longer than usual due to late start). He's not like, 23 or something, he's basically in what should be his prime.
I also think that LeVert's injury history is real and worrying. He played 45 games this year, 40 games last year, 71 games the year before, and 57 the year before that. Every couple of months it seems to be something new with him.
- Stress fracture in left foot, sophomore year of college
- Re-injured the same foot, junior year of college
- Unrelated leg injury cost him a bunch more games in his senior year
- Ended his senior year with a third surgery on the same left foot: this kept him out a bunch of his rookie season
- Missed 10 games due to various lower body injuries sophomore NBA season
- Dislocated his right foot in his 3rd NBA season, missed 42 games
- Thumb injury cost him 2 months this season
Some of that (thumb injury for example) is just bad luck in isolated incidents. But his lower body appears to be made of straw, just constantly injured and aggravated. Feet made of splinters.
And that's before you even get to his play, which has never reached the level people often talk about him as if it has. Never had a positive net rating, hasn't hit league average TS% since his rookie year (which shows up in mediocre %ages pretty much everywhere on the floor), and he's never fared particularly well in stats like PIPM either. This is backed up by an eye test that shows poor decision making, a kind of pass-blind offensive mentality at times (doesn't integrate his passing with his scoring, when one is turned on the other is often turned off), and overall subpar defense.