Could Utah Jazz Be Ready To Trade Lauri Markkanen & Walker Kessler?Now that Austin Ainge, Danny Ainge's son, is taking over as President of the Jazz, it appears that Utah has finally decided that the time is right to trade both Lauri Markkanen and Walker Kessler this summer.… pic.twitter.com/lWPTlf37K0— LakerTom (@LakerTom) June 9, 2025
lol… LT this trade is a defensive nightmare. You think pairing Luka and Reaves is bad? Markkanen is not a plus defender and he’s not a good rebounder. He puts up OK stats on a bad team and is hurt. All. The. Time.
Plus you just traded away just about every guard we have and every single pick. We’d be big, slow and bad at defense. Rui is better than LM at this point, for the money.
Hard pass.
Haha. Aside from the fact there will be better offers for Lauri and possibly for Kessler, I agree Lauri is not what we need right now.