Headed into this year's free agency class, the Utah Jazz have most of their key pieces (outside of Walker Kessler) retained under contract on either a big time extension, like in the case of Lauri Markkanen and Jaren Jackson Jr., or players who are still on their rookie contracts like Keyonte George and Ace Bailey.
This NBA season in particular, one of the major issues that commissioner Adam Silver is vowing to fix is the perceived issue of tanking. The Utah Jazz are one of the teams that have been accused of tanking this season.
The Utah Jazz are set to reawaken next season from a four-year rebuild process that led to the team taking a step back, reworking their roster with brand-new stars and young pieces, and now head into the 2026-27 campaign with a real chance to make some noise in the Western Conference.
The Utah Jazz finished their 2025-26 regular season logging their second-lowest win total as a franchise with a record of 22-60, ranking ahead of only their prior season where they had racked up just 17 wins.
Two of the top names on the Utah Jazz slated to hit this summer's NBA free agent market—when removing restricted free agent Walker Kessler from the equation—are none other than veteran big men Jusuf Nurkic and Kevin Love.
The Utah Jazz head into a pivotal offseason for more reasons than one, but most importantly, because of what the fate of their first-round pick will hold, and where they'll ultimately be selecting in a wildly talented draft class.
In honor of the merciful conclusion to the Utah Jazz’s tanking era, let’s take a look back at some of the players who were instrumental in securing better draft odds and the hope of a playoff appearance next season.
The Utah Jazz, after a long and strenuous regular season, saw all of their young players on the roster show some inspiring signs of their development in one way or another, which in turn, is what considers their year as a whole an overall success for head coach Will Hardy.
Outside of the glaring situation that remains for Utah Jazz restricted free agent Walker Kessler, the two other big pending free agents the team will have hitting the market this summer are their pair of veteran big men, Jusuf Nurkic and Kevin Love.
On March 13, the Utah Jazz signed Bez Mbeng to a ten-day contract. Who knew the deal would become a dream come true for the former Yale graduate? On April 3, the Jazz signed Mbeng to a multi-year contract, demonstrating the coaching staff’s trust in his potential.
The Utah Jazz certainly had a unique season. Winning wasn’t necessarily the goal in 2025-26, but the team combined tanking with being set up brilliantly to succeed as soon as next year.
LeBron's career can't go on forever, can it? If it were to end tomorrow, it would be the greatest run of sustained excellence the league has ever seen.
The Utah Jazz now have an idea of when their lottery coin flip will take place deciding whether they'll have the fourth or fifth-best odds to claim the number-one pick in this year's draft.
While the Utah Jazz's 2025-26 season ended with them falling short of the playoffs for what's now their fourth-straight year, the confidence is already growing inside the building for what next season could look like, and what their playoff fate will shake out to be.
Jusuf Nurkic’s season-ending nose injury back in February came after the 31-year-old center had amassed a total of 41 appearances for the Utah Jazz. The resultant surgery meant that Nurkic sat out the remainder of what was the final year of the $70 million four-year deal that he signed with the Portland Trail Blazers back in July 2022.
Utah Jazz rookie Ace Bailey delivered a top five rookie performance in the NBA this season. He’s not a lock to win league Rookie of the Year honors, as Kon Knueppel and Cooper Flagg are frontrunners.
Kevin Love provided his stance on his future in the NBA as he enters free agency this offseason following his campaign with the Utah Jazz. Love has just completed his 18th season in the league and his first with the Jazz.
Rookie Blake Hinson scored a career-high 30 points and two Utah reserves logged triple-doubles, helping the Jazz snap a 10-game losing streak with a 147-101 demolition of the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday in Salt Lake City.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver has proposed changes to the league's draft lottery to discourage teams from losing on purpose. Now there's a new wrinkle that could dramatically change the incentives for losing.
The Utah Jazz have shown flashes of potential and competitiveness during its current 10-game losing streak. But the lows have outnumbered the highs heading into a showdown with the Memphis Grizzlies in Salt Lake City on Friday night.
Nobody in Utah knew the name Blake Hinson until February 9. On that day, the NBA announced that the Utah Jazz signed the forward to a two-way contract.
It was a wild night at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on Tuesday night. And a game between two teams near the bottom of the NBA standings in the league’s final regular season week surely didn’t get much attention.
Bez Mbeng‘s second 10-day contract with the Jazz expired on Wednesday night, but he won’t be going anywhere, reports Sarah Todd of The Deseret News. According to Todd, Utah will be signing Mbeng for the rest of the season.
Following the expiration of Kennedy Chandler‘s first 10-day contract with the Jazz on Monday night, he has been re-signed to a second 10-day deal, the team announced on Wednesday in a press release.
If the Boozer twins didn't have enough pressure already, trying to carry the family legacy in Durham certainly won't make the weight any lighter. However, during an appearance on "The Rich Eisen Show," Carlos Boozer revealed that he didn't pressure his sons to follow in his footsteps and commit to the Blue Devils.