BREAKING NEWS: The Atlanta Hawks announced a tough injury update on the eve of their first 2024 Las Vegas Summer League game.
The positive thinking around the Atlanta hawks of prey’s 2024 Las Vegas Summer Association group endured a shot with word that one of the vital participants in the group would never again partake.
“Kobe Bufkin harmed his right shoulder during Tuesday night’s late spring association practice,” the Birds of prey reported in a post on X on July 11. “A X-ray taken at the Emory Sports Medication Complex uncovered discoveries reliable with a right shoulder subluxation. He won’t play in the Las Vegas Summer Association and is supposed to make a full recuperation in front of training camp.”
Bufkin was the No. 15 overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft.
His rookie season was likewise hindered by injury, with the previous Michigan Wolverine showing up in 17 games with the Birds of prey. He found the middle value of 4.8 places, 1.9 bounce back, and 1.6 helps as a tenderfoot in 2023-24.
Bufkin logged one more 14 games in the G Association with the School Park Skyhawks, posting 23.6 focuses, 5.9 helps, and 5.4 bounce back with 1.3 takes. He had areas of strength for an in the 2023 summer association, consequently the idealism for his second go.
Kobe Bufkin’s sophomore season with Hawks off to rough start
Bufkin streaked quite a bit of what compelled him a potential lottery pick in his minutes on the court, showing forcefulness and eagerness to get downhill, make plays, and protect. His solitary mole beside solidness was his three-point shooting.
Bufkin shot 22.5% from profound and half from the free toss line with the Birds of prey. He shot 35.6% from outside with the Skyhawks, an almost indistinguishable imprint to his last season in school (35.5%).
He likewise showed improved productivity at the free toss line with CPS (82.9%), again almost matching his university numbers (83.3%). Summer association was set to be a phase for Bufkin to demonstrate the G Association exhibitions will without a doubt decipher.
With Dejounte Murray exchanged to the New Orleans Pelicans, this is likewise a hit for the Birds of prey.
Bufkin was at that point set to be a piece of a packed gatekeeper bunch that incorporates Trae Youthful, flexible save Vit Krejci, and exchange pickup Dyson Daniels at the point.
Bogdan Bogdanovic and Garrison Mathews are at shooting watch, making a way to reliable minutes for Bufkin tangled. Not having the option to resolve will just fuel the issue for Bufkin and the Falcons, and more changes are possibly not too far off.
The Falcons will in any case have a lot of fervor around the 2024 summer crew.
No. 1 generally speaking pick Zaccharie Risacher and second-round pick Nikola Djurisic are the main event and co-star, individually.
But the summer league Hawks will also feature young bigs in 2023 second-round Mouhamed Gueye and 2023 undrafted free agent Miles Norris. 2022 second-rounder E.J. Liddell – who arrived to the Hawks in the Murray package with Daniels – will also play.
