Meniscus tear! Truce indefinitely! Goodbye, Suns number one scorer

The Phoenix Suns officially announced: Damien Lee successfully underwent right knee meniscus repair surgery and was sidelined indefinitely. According to previous reports, Damien-Lee suffered a torn meniscus. Leonard tore his right knee meniscus in this playoffs and fully recovered throughout the offseason. Harrell also suffered a torn meniscus in his right knee this summer, and his return date is undecided.

Suns officials did not disclose more information about whether Damion-Lee was injured in the offseason or at training camp. Last season, Damien Lee shot 47 percent from three-point range, third in the NBA league, behind Kennard and Brunson. This summer, the Suns renewed Damion Lee to a two-year salary contract with a second-year player option.

2022-23 three-point shooting ranking: 1, Kennard, 52.6%, 213 shots; 2. Jaylen Brunson, 47.6%, 126 shots; 3. Damien Lee, 47%, 230 shots; 4, Yuta Watanabe, 45.7%, 129 shots; 5. Bogdanovich, 45.6%, 235 shots.

In the 2022-23 season, Damien Lee played in 74 regular-season games for the Suns, starting five of them. He averaged 20.4 minutes per game, had 8.2 points, 3 rebounds and 1.3 assists, shooting 44.2 percent from the field and 44.5 percent from three-point range. That's right, the three-point shooting percentage is higher than the shooting percentage, he really is an outside shooter!

Today, nine players on the Suns team shot more than 35 percent from three-point range last season: Damien Lee: 44.5 percent; Yuta Watanabe: 44.4%; Durant: 40.4%; Diop: 39.4%; Eubanks: 38.9%; Eric Gordon: 37.1%; Bill: 36.5%; Nurkic: 36.1%; Booker: 35.1%.

By the standards of a base-salary player, Damien Lee beat expectations last season. There are so many people playing in the solar these days, there is Gordon on the bench, and when Damian Lee returns from injury, how much playing time does the team have left for him? When it comes to Damien Lee, many people think of Curry because he is Curry's brother-in-law.

Damien Lee was born on October 21, 1992, with a height of 1.96 meters and an arm span of 2.05 meters. He was a 2016 NBA draft pick and played 15 games for the Hawks until the 2017-18 season. In the summer of 2018, Damien Lee joined the Warriors. Also in 2018, he married Curry's sister Hidel and has been known to fans ever since.

At that time, the Warriors signed Damien Lee, not ruling out that it was to curry favor with Curry. The NBA has never lacked connections, such as Alphabet's brother, or Lao Li's son Rivers Jr. However, Damien Lee's foothold in the NBA is inseparable from his own efforts. In 2019-20, he averaged 12.7 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1 steal per game with the Warriors.

The Warriors converted his two-way contract to a formal one, but still with a base salary of more than a million. The following 2020-21 season, Damion Lee shot 39.7 percent from three-point range, averaging 1.4 three-pointers per game. Before joining the Suns, he never shot more than 40% from three-point range, but he didn't expect to reach 44.5% in the Suns!

He no longer needs Curry's help and can win a formal contract on his own! I wish Damien Lee a speedy recovery, and his brother-in-law, who was once questioned, finally proved himself! Come on!