The email from West Virginia University basketball games data office was quick and concise .

"West Virginia University men's b-ball understudy competitor Brandon Knapper has been cleared to completely take an interest in all basketball exercises this season," read the announcement that was discharged Monday evening. "Knapper, a redshirt-rookie protect from South Charleston, West Virginia, had been sitting out certain ball exercises while some restorative conditions were tended to."

The 6-foot, 180-pound watch harmed his knee preceding the beginning of the 2017-18 season and did not take part in any diversion movement, in this way redshirting.

All appeared to be great with the knee making a beeline for this late spring, however then Knapper encountered a few issues that supposedly included blood clusters in his lungs. He kept on doing quality and molding work over the late spring while at the same time experiencing therapeutic techniques to dispose of the coagulation's and shield them from returning, yet he was not permitted to partake in any exercises that included contact, due to fear the coagulation's would come free out of the blue.

With this discharge, Knapper is currently ready to full partake in all practices and recreations for the Mountaineers this coming year.

A three-time first-group Class AAA all-state choice at South Charleston High School, he found the middle value of 28.5 focuses, 6.0 helps and 5.4 rounds an amusement his senior season. In the wake of moving on from SCHS in the spring of 2016, Knapper put in a postgrad year at Hargrave (Va.) Military Academy, where he arrived at the midpoint of 18.0 focuses and 3.1 aids his one season at the private academy.

Knapper was relied upon to be a noteworthy piece of a year ago's backcourt at WVU as a genuine green bean, however then the preseason knee damage removed him from the lineup and left the Mountaineers' thin in the backcourt.

Now that he's cleared, Knapper again figures to be a major piece of West Virginia's pivot at the watch position, if not winning a beginning employment through and through.