We had already seen him many times last season in the NBA, especially when the Blazers decided to sell off their regular like a forty-year-old throws his VHS at ten bucks a hundred in a summer flea market. In Las Vegas Trendon Watford proved that Portland might / should give him a chance, and here is the sophomore with two trophies on his chimney, two more than a pack of NBA players casually.
Does being elected Summer League MVP guarantee a great career in the NBA? So ask Blake Griffin, John Wall or Damian Lillard, but also ask Josh Selby or Glen Rice Jr., also glorified in July but quite far from All-Star level therefollowing. We will therefore wait to see what the 21-year-old winger will offer us in his second season with the Blazers, but in any case the energetic Trendon has earned his praise over these ten days of competition.
Trendon Watford is the 2022 #NBA2K23SummerLeague Championship Game MVP!
Congrats @trendonw! pic.twitter.com/PPkq9MWCYy
— NBA (@NBA) July 17, 2022
Celebration Time with Championship Game MVP Trendon Watford (@trendonw) & the @NBASummerLeague Champs @trailblazers! pic.twitter.com/pJlcv267pW
— NBA (@NBA) July 17, 2022
Undrafted, he had nevertheless scratched a place in the Chauncey Billups roster at the start of last season without however succeeding in “really” imposing himself there as a major player. The joys of tanking helping, the month of March will finally make us benefit from his talent, and it is as a holder that Trendon will become trending by posting averages of more than 15 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists over the month of the grandmothers day. Trendon Watfors, Brandon Williams, Drew Eubanks or Keon Johnson, that’s what the Portland Dream Team looked like then and that’s more or less what it looked like this summer, and Trendon decided to play the leaders there.
Tonight ? 19 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 steals, a game in line with the previous five and if this MVP trophy might just as well have gone to his point guard Brandon Williams or to Keon Johnson if he had not shit its final, it logically rewards the most dominating and the most constant of the band. Not the brightest dash on a CV obviously, we recall that the Summer League opposes plumbers to tilers 80% of the timebut let’s also remember that some well-known heads of the League have also been there, we are talking in particular regarding Blake Griffin, John Wall, Damian Lillard, Jonas Valanciunas and more recently Brandon Clarke, Lonzo Ball, Cam Thomas or Davion Mitchell.
Within the Blazers project Anfernee Simons seems to have taken the aspiration of Damian Lillard and the Shaedon Sharpe project is still in its infancy. Will there be a small place for the energizer Watford? We call back, we’re talking regarding Summer League so calm down, but at the same time… what more might he do to show off.
