The Biggest What-If in Utah Jazz History: Dante Exum

Every rebuild produces trade regrets and draft-day what-ifs. The Utah Jazz have had plenty. But none carries the specific, gutting shape of Dante Exum's — a player who showed flashes at the wrong times, making the injuries that followed feel less like bad luck than a stolen career.

Exum bypassed college entirely, arriving in Australia as the No. 5 overall pick in the 2014 draft at 6-foot-6 with a wingspan that made scouts talk about him as a point guard in a small forward's frame.