Taking after the Jazz’s 129-107 misfortune to Brilliant State on Monday, Andy Larsen of The Salt Lake Tribune composed that the team’s locker room was as baffled as he’d seen it taking after a standard season amusement. As Larsen clarifies, Utah players weren’t fair disturbed approximately the misfortune but by the trade-deadline bargains that sent out three turn players (Kelly Olynyk, Ochai Agbaji, and Simone Fontecchio) and returned none.
Inquired earlier to the 2023/24 season approximately Lauri Markkanen’s crave to create the playoffs, Jazz CEO Danny Ainge said the front office shared that want and was on board with it, Larsen notes. But with the team in a play-in position within the West entering final Thursday’s due date, Ainge basically sold off players for draft picks, clearing out the remaining players as in case “they were sold a charge of goods,” Larsen composes.
