Brooklyn Nets: 2017-18 player grades for Caris LeVert

Brooklyn Nets swingman Caris LeVert has made incremental strides with each passing game. Here is a look at how his second season in the NBA went.

Caris LeVert is quite an interesting player. He doesn’t always dominate the scoreboard, nor does he get exposed too often. He is a malleable and underrated cog on the Brooklyn Nets‘ roster.

LeVert has had his share of ups and downs, like most of the team. Formerly the No. 21 overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft who the Nets traded Thaddeus Young to the Indiana Pacers for, LeVert fell due to injury concerns.

That wasn’t any sort of problem for Brooklyn, a team looking for upside and value. Taking swings on risk-reward prospects like LeVert is exactly what a rebuilding team should do that late in the first round.

In his rookie season, LeVert had the injury bug, which cost him 25 games. His averages of 8.2 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 1.9 assists per game on 45 percent shooting were the embodiment of a shrug emoji. He exhibited flashes of various skills, but nothing solidified. It didn’t help that the Nets had the worst record in the NBA at 20-62.

In his second season, LeVert’s flashes got brighter. Various performances became glimpses into a very versatile player. Granted, the most luminous flashes were sparse in frequency, but the 2017-18 season gave fans and pundits a lot to like about LeVert’s overall body of work.