Nets Draft Pick Drake Powell Not Playing In Summer League Due To Knee Injury

Drake Powell posted an impressive 43-inch vertical leap at the NBA scouting combine before the Nets used the No. 22 pick in the draft on the shooting guard from North Carolina following a trade with Atlanta.

Perhaps even more impressive?

He made that jump while dealing with a troublesome left knee.

Powell told The Post that he tweaked his knee during the lead-up to the draft, and the Nets say the injury — which they described as tendinopathy — will preclude him from playing alongside the Nets’ other four first-round picks during summer league action beginning later this week in Las Vegas.

The Nets and the 19-year-old Powell stressed he’s being held out as a precaution, and the rookie added he’d be playing if these were regular-season games.

“Absolutely. It’s extremely disappointing not to play [in summer league] because coming in with these guys, I want to compete with them,” Powell said Monday at an appearance with the other Nets rookies at a camp for kids in Sunset Park in Brooklyn. “So yeah it’s definitely frustrating, but I understand it. I’d say it’s more of a precaution type thing right now.”