Utah Jazz Rookie Shares First Impression of Keyonte George

In the week following the 2025 NBA Draft wrapping up for the Utah Jazz, the team's rookies and other young talent have remained hard at work as things have quickly transitioned to preparing for this weekend's summer league showings, with practices getting underway and the first-year talent getting their feet wet at the next level.

However, one name who's been around the building but won't be a part of the summer league action is Jazz's third-year guard Keyonte George, who has been around Utah's first-round selection in Ace Bailey and Walter Clayton Jr. a good bit since the two were drafted last week.

When asking Clayton Jr., having George around the building has been both valuable and telling as to what he can expect from his backcourt counterpart, even while he won't be suiting up this weekend.

"It's great," Clayton Jr. said on Wednesday of George being in the building. "Obviously, he's not playing summer league, but he's here, though. He's around the guys, he's learning, so that just tells me he wants to build chemistry, and he wants to win this year."

George, who's been a part of the Jazz's past two summer leagues before being pulled midway through the second, will have the first offseason in which he won't be a part of the summer showcase, but it hasn't prevented him from coming into the building and working both on and off the court with his teammates.

As a result, George is building that chemistry early on ahead of a critical year three, showing he wants to do what it takes to build a winning product on the floor however he can.