HoopsHype writer Frank Urbina recently published an article that ranked the 25 best shooting guards in the NBA. The Oklahoma City Thunder had one entry: Lu Dort came in at No. 17.
“Originally thought of just as a high-energy defensive stopper, Lu Dort has developed his offensive game leaps and bounds since his rookie season to the point the young Canadian is coming off a career year in which he averaged 17.2 points and 4.2 rebounds on 40.4 percent shooting from the floor.
He’s still streaky offensively and has a tendency to be a chucker, but there’s no question offensively, he’s much farther along than he was earlier on in his career.
Couple that with his long-armed, tenacious style of defense where he’ll hunt opposing ball-handlers up and down the floor for fun and you have the makings of a more complete player, and one the Oklahoma City Thunder wisely locked up for the future.”
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Dort has quickly risen from an undrafted free agent in 2019 to getting paid nearly $90 million in 2022. The rebuilding Thunder found a gem in Dort; he provides a bulky player who can defend some of the best perimeter players in the league and does not lack confidence in taking shots and hitting them at a respectable rate from outside.
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