NBA: 10 players looking to shed injury-prone label in 2018-19

6. Dante Exum, Utah Jazz

Since playing in 82 games as a rookie, it’s been nothing but tough sledding for Dante Exum. Entering a highly anticipated second year with the Utah Jazz, he tore his ACL playing for the Australian national team over the summer.

Exum missed the entire 2015-16 season recuperating from that injury, and though he came back relatively strong the following season in 66 games, shoulder surgery limited him to 14 games last year.

Exum looked solid in a couple of playoff games, but his production has nowhere near matched the three-year, $33 million gamble the Jazz took on him over the summer. With only one year remaining on Ricky Rubio‘s contract and Exum being expected to step in and prove himself as Utah’ next starting-caliber point guard, the pressure is on this 23-year-old to put his injury history behind him.