It’s an over pay and a half but I guess

That’s an awful lot for a guy that played 5 games last year

it’s looking awfully caucasian in Tinseltown. the Los Angeles Jazz

Feels like Lakers got a little fleeced here

Darn. I was hoping Lakers would dump Knect or Vando in that trade to free up more cap space.

What awful deal Rob is a horrible GM he played 5 games last year

Jazz setup extremely well for the future wow. Masterclass

I love Rob Pelinka man

DUREN, YOU 🫵 are a Sacramento King

fire rob pelinka into the sun asap

Holy we fleeced them

Team ain’t done targeting white guys. Time to go scout some rec centers Rob

2 firsts, and 2 swaps ain’t bad. The Jazz declined 2 firsts for him from the Pacers at the deadline. The 2026 Pacers first wasn’t offered BTW, so the Jazz got more with the 2 swaps

I’m not really mad because this feels like karmic justice for the Luka trade

32.5M a year and 4 picks for a guy that played 5 games last year is unreal.

Lakers fans on suicide watch

As Jazz walks away laughing and skipping.

Is he that good?

GUYS. STOP TRADING WITH DANNY AINGE. HE WILL WIN.

Snow time

Seems like a huge overpay but they got their Center at least right 

Ainge fucking fleeced. Is that the biggest return in a sign and trade?

I don’t like the deal and think we should have just matched.

On the bright side, we’re not getting any of the Lakers poo poo platter and I don’t need to pretend I’m happy to have Knecht on my team.

So Utah nearly got 10 First Round Picks from the Rudy Gobert trade? Danny Ainge never fails to impress me.

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

Holy shit, massive contract and gave up the future for a 12-10 guy lmao

time to buy stock in the jazz man they’ve got a bright ass future

This man gets season ending injury every season

Wow. Makes the Pacers trade for Zu look pretty smart afterall. 

White Eric Dampier.

two first unprotected and two swaps and they could’t unload Vando’s contract. come on pelinka.

Is he even better than rookie Lively lol

Holy overpay but the Luka trade offsets every bad deal for the next few years

When is the last time a team started 3 white boys? Is this the cream team avengers?

The Lakers big three looking like a three stage Pokémon evolution

Luka gets his guy, I guess

Shoutout Pelinka. Thank you Danny Ainge

Bro they couldn’t even offload Vanderbilt if we giving 2 picks and 2 swaps?

the lakers are so cooked lmao

cant blame bron now for bad moves

This team might not even be a playoff team lmao

it’s an overpay for sure (not in terms of contract but in terms of trade comp)

I don’t think this many people would be shitting on Kessler if he signed elsewhere though. He has a lot of potential, especially in a Luka offense.

who would the jazz even want from the lakers lol

Kessler has a massive ceiling. But he’s injury prone, and he’s also never gonna be a big scorer. I feel like that’s a lot to give up but we’ll see

Ainge didn’t want Jake LaRavia?

For the right to overpay an already injury prone center, pelinka sends basically all their draft assets. What a horrible move. This is what pelinka does when stars dont land in his lap. Smh

😂😂😂 what are the Lakers doing

I feel there’s always guys like Kessler that you can get. Also Utah had a front court glut. JJJ Lauri and Ace with Keyonte and Darryn is going to be pretty good. 

Kessler is a top 25 center in the NBA but man is that an overpay imo. 

It’s insane to think this team was gifted Luka and they are gonna run out Kessler, Reeves, and Luka for the next four years against the spurs and thunder lol

Good luck

Lakers with the all-White big 3

Kessler is worth at most 25mil/year. His ceiling is a 15-10 guy with decent defense…when healthy.

Massive overpay

I’ll bet that DominAyton will start more games than him next season.

Utah did all that tanking just to give away their good young players

fuck tanking teams what the fuck

So it’s Lebron, Rui, Smart for Walker Kessler, Grimes and Mamukelashvili? Holy downgrade.

How can this deal work without somewhat matching salaries back? I don’t get it

Congrats Spurs on landing Rui I guess🥹

I agree overpay, but he also reportedly turned down ⁵⁄₁₄₀ from the Jazz last week. He’s betting on himself, but I’d put the odds of him getting over $10/year on his next contract at around ⁵⁰⁄₅₀.

Great move. Best thing the Lakers have done all offseason

Lakers gave up all that for Walker Kessler lol you know they’re desperate

Jazz are cookin now

We need a center stat

The LA Whitewalkers

LA celebrating White Boy Summer 2026

Pelinka really is trash. Couldn’t even unload ayton or vando after giving all those picks lmao

Pelinka is living off that 2020 championship he fell into.. and he fell into the Luka situation. They need to get rid of him before they lose Luka too.

#LakersSoWhite

Not too bad 32.5mill/yr for perhaps the 2nd best shot blocker in the NBA and at age 24. If Lakers were able to offload Vando this will be a solid deal.

Walker walked

Could have atleast made them take Vando and Maxie

Ooofta that’s a lot of draft capital and dolla capital

And this impacts duren now right since now he has no leverage ?

Doesn’t this mean the Lakers can’t keep Rui?

They blamed Bron for the roster construction, Rob has always been the problem

Lakers gonna hate this move in 2 years just watch

He’s going to be incredible with Luka but man they could’ve gotten a superstar eventually with that draft capital

This is a great gamble but the Jazz. He might be young but he has a hard time staying on the court

Ainge man, feels like he just sniffs out these situations and sets himself up to take advantage by just waiting teams out and knowing when he can really get an overpay.

Love this for the Jazz, these picks could be great and they have a very solid young core to build around still.

Lakers better pray Kessler can stay healthy because if he doesn’t they have nothing left to give besides Luka and Reaves.

Zubac went for like half the picks with a team friendly contract.

Well yeah Lakers don’t have anyone to trade. Their roster right now is Luka and Reaves.

Offseason firing. Great move for all here

Wait how does that work? Don’t they need to send out matching salary?

Duren is out of option now.

Does Utah get a full 32.5 million traded player exception from this for not bringing back players? I assume we get something to get someone. But I’ve heard conflicting since it was a RFA