Bruh I was shocked

Homies are cooking me in the group chat for falling for the bait lmao

I texted the group chat immediately and now I look stupid cuz of that. Fuck that guy

What was it?

do people just not click on the link or look at shams’ twitter before commenting? like that’s the first thing i do when it comes to a star player being traded

I hope they get sciatica

I slapped my head in shock

If I get brain damage, then that fucker needs to give my family compensation

Man I totally bought that shit as well

Clips trading zubac and harden prolly means league has decided to punish kawhi

I called my whole family man

My stomach literally fell out of my ass.

It is nice to have one less team in that equation now

If they keep Kessler, Lauri, and JJJ, are going to be able to pay George?

Only makes sense if they PAY him an insane amount of money in the offseason. Cuz odds are teams are gonna throw stupid money at him.

2 late firsts most likely. I’ll take Kessler instead.

Going for the Triple Towers strat!

The reports were last summer that Walker Kessler was asking for 5 yrs \(120 mil. Utah was not willing to do that. And you are turning down 2 unprotected firsts for a guy you werent willing to pay \)25 mil APY to (who’s missed all yr)? Yeah people are lying to themselves he screwed up

I mean, I kind of get it. He’s going to be a restricted free agent and they have the ability to match offers.

The idea of a Kessler/JJJ front court is pretty appealing and we don’t know the years of the FRP either.

The Jazz bought in for Jaren. After this season the Jazz give zero shits about first round picks anymore

Unprotected 1sts don’t necessarily mean good 1sts, we’d have to see what specific ones were actually offered

We now know they were moving for JJJ, and JJJ + Kessler is a very good frontcourt defensively?

Nah Kessler is worth more than two middle to late first rounders

unless it was a 2026 first i agree lol

After the trade for JJJ, it’s clear the Jazz see him as part of the core and they are competing next year.

The Zubac trade at least means the Pacers don’t throw a huge offer at Walker that we’ll have to match.

AKME overpay music this offseason right there

I can only hope man, inject it into my veins

There are no strong centers in the draft. Pacers would’ve stopped tanking, mightve been the 5-9 pick where there are no good center prospects in the top 10

Jazz would then have no center, where they need a center, especially Kessler, to play with Jaren

Given they traded the 2026 to the Clippers with some protections for Zu I doubt they were willing to give it up unprotected.

I don’t think 2 first round picks for someone as good and valuable as Kessler is a no-brainer, so not sure why you guys are so shocked. You might be underrating him

They are already tanking . They don’t need the pacers pick. And why get mathurin. When you already have ace and the pick that’s coming in this upcoming draft? And Kessler is a great young center

Austin Ainge is definitely running things there cause Trader Danny would never decline an offer like this

nobody seems to know the actual plan right now.

No, it seems very clear. Tank the rest of the season and compete next year.

Keyonte / SG / Lauri / JJJ / Kessler is the starting lineup next sesson. The SG may be Ace Bailey or whatever good perimeter defender we can bring in. Summer we work on the bench, but hopefully add another blue chip rookie in the draft.

Key and Lauri are enough offensive firepower to go toe to toe with lots of teams, and Kessler / JJJ shore up the defense. Will Hardy is a very good coach and can hopefully figure something out.

I don’t think that’s a contender yet, but we’ll still have lots of young talent and our draft picks to make improvements.

has no plan to move Kessler

You… May have missed a trade that happened like yesterday bro.

Danny Ainge isn’t in charge.

That’s what people said when we didn’t trade Markkanen for the guy who fetched Tingis.

The Jazz never wanted to ship him off lmao

So we’re supposed to just trade all our good players for picks forever? Should we trade Keyonte too now that he’s good?