Signing with Cleveland in the summer of 2023 — a union more than four years in the making — was supposed to be a fresh start, the opportunity no other team was willing to provide. Ty Jerome was a camp standout. He kept turning heads during the preseason. Momentum was building toward a significant role as the primary backup point guard and rotational mainstay. And then, in the second game of the regular season, against his old Thunder buddies, Jerome suffered a sprained ankle late in the third quarter — a footnote in a home-opening loss. Or so everyone thought. Jerome never returned. Not that night. Not the rest of the season. It was an outcome no one could have predicted. Frustration. Anger. Doubt. Misery. Depression. Jerome felt all of it. “I was in a very dark place,” Jerome admitted. “I felt disconnected from the group. I felt alone.”
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer