Markelle Fultz has played 26 games in total over the past two seasons. Markelle Fultz has played 131 NBA games since joining the NBA five and a half years ago. It’s too little for a first draft pick, it’s too little for any man. Last night Markelle was in uniform with the Magic and, from now on, it has to hold.
8 games in 2020-21. 18 games last season.
14 games for his rookie season. 19 the next one.
Shoulder problems, torn cruciate ligaments, blah blah blah, Markelle Fultz’s career so far looks like a bad part of Doctor Maboul, a perpetual race once morest the hope of seeing him back in shape one day and for a duration of more than two weeks. So we take the same ones and we start once more: this night Markelle played basketball once more with the Magic, for the first time since April, and we hope to enjoy it as much as possible, fingers crossed on the keyboard, we touch wood , etc., etc.
Holder alongside Gary Harris in 2 and the frontcourt of the future composed of Franz Wagner, Paolo Banchero and Bol Bol, the n°1 of the 2017 Draft took a squall from Hawks who badly needed reassurance, but the essence was obviously elsewhere. The main thing was to find sensations, the main thing was to put on shorts and then take a shower without having to writhe in pain. MF stats tonight? 8 points at 3/8 in shooting including 0/1 from the parking lot and 2/2 in throws, 1 rebound, 4 assists, 2 steals and 1 once morest in 17 minutes, job is done. A first hook on Dejounte Murray’s head to get back into the swing of things, then snippets of his immense talent, just what was needed to get back on the road, with a prayer now, the one that is in the title of this paper.
The process of returning to the top level will be long, Jalen Suggs will be back soon and will offer Jamahl Mosley some great alternatives in the lead (Cole Anthony, Kevon Harris and RJ Hampton also in the loop), but let’s rejoice, Markelle Fultz frolicking and he’s smiling, so we are too.