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The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has signed guard Kennedy Chandler to a 10-day contract. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released. Chandler (6-0, 170, Tennessee) has appeared in 42 games (41 starts) for the Delaware Blue Coats of the NBA G League during the 2025-26 season, averaging 17.0 points, 9.0 assists, 2.7 rebounds, and 1.9 steals in 34.7 minutes per game.

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MrBuckBuck: Ace Bailey when asked about his expectations for the Jazz next season: "I don't know. I'm still trying to finish this one out... Really just dialed in on this [season]." "When somebody said we were 70 games in, I was like... what?"

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Shams Charania: The Utah Jazz are signing NBA G League assists leader Kennedy Chandler to a 10-day contract out of the NBA G League, agent Ryan Davis of WME Basketball tells ESPN. Chandler returns to the NBA after playing his 2022-23 rookie campaign in Memphis as a second-round pick.

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Lonzo Ball never looked right after the Bulls traded him to Cleveland for Isaac Okoro last offseason, leaving the Cavs no choice but to finally move off of him with a trade to Utah in February. The Jazz promptly waived him as he now sits at home hoping to get another chance in the NBA. “I loved him as a player and a guy, and he was so cerebral,” Bulls coach Billy Donovan said of Ball on Thursday, reflecting on the frequently-injured point guard. “He was so selfless, that’s really one of the things I admired. To see him have to go through what he went through, to fight to get back, see what he’s going through now, that’s tough for me because it’s almost like what could have been, how good could he have been?” The big what if with Ball after a serious knee injury back in 2022 cost him over two-and-a-half seasons. Even when he returned, he only showed glimpses of the player he was before the knee betrayed him.

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Andersson Garcia played in his fifth NBA game on Thursday night and Bez Mbeng made his fourth NBA appearance. “The two guys on 10 days, like, that’s what it’s about,” Hardy said with pride. “These are two guys who are getting an opportunity to play in the NBA for the first time and they’re not wasting a second of it. It’s all hustle and heart, deflection, steals, block shots, rebounds, tip outs.” These are two players who were barely on anyone’s radar while playing in the NBA G League — Garcia with the Mexico City Capitanes and Mbeng with the Sioux Falls Skyforce — and join a Jazz locker room that has spent a significant amount of time together.

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‪KeithSmithNBA‬: With their loss and the Portland Trail Blazers win last night, the Utah Jazz have been officially eliminated from postseason contention.

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Dane Moore: Naz Reid has been ruled out for tonight’s game against Utah with the right ankle sprain he suffered last night. Reid sat at his locker after the game last night longer than he normally does — feet in ice, shoulders wrapped up in ice like they were shoulder pads. Doesn’t seem like anything too serious, but he is definitely quite banged up.

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Rudy Gobert: “So, it’s a hyperbaric chamber. You have different pressure levels. You can put oxygen in it too, so I can wear the mask to get even more oxygen.” Interviewer: “Well, that lets your cells get a lot more oxygen and recover better.” Rudy Gobert: “So what’s really interesting is that, whether it’s for injuries or even micro-lesions and things like that, it allows you to regenerate faster.” Interviewer: “Okay. And are there a lot of athletes—I mean, NBA players—who have that kind of thing?” Rudy Gobert: “Yeah. Yeah. The first time I heard about a hyperbaric chamber, I was in Utah, and it was Kyle Korver. I know Tom Brady had one, Cristiano Ronaldo had one. Since I’m someone who wants to optimize my potential, I ordered one right away. I even gave one to Mike Conley. You always have to take care of your point guards.”

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The three worst teams in the league - Indiana, Washington, and Sacramento - call the most timeouts. The Bulls and Pelicans are fourth and fifth in timeouts, and not much better in the standings. Meanwhile, the same is true on the other end. The teams that call the fewest timeouts include the Pistons, Rockets, Knicks, Celtics, and Thunder, five of the top six teams in net rating. They don’t often have to worry about their opponent going on a threatening scoring run. And then there’s the Utah Jazz. Utah has the fifth worst record in the NBA, is outscored by eight points per 100 possessions, but Head Coach Will Hardy hasn’t stepped in to stop the bleeding. In the past, Hardy has talked about the value of letting players learn how to handle pressure and communicate under duress while taking responsibility for fixing mistakes rather than being bailed out by a stoppage. He may also be scared from that one time he lost his team a game with a timeout.

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The Utah Jazz are waiving center Mo Bamba before the end of his 10-day contract and signing another player for their upcoming road trip. Bamba contracted an illness that prevented him from traveling with the team to Portland, Sacramento and Minnesota over the next week. His 10-day contract would have run out over that time, meaning the Jazz had to move on.

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Tim Bontemps: Utah Jazz guard Keyonte George has a grade two right hamstring strain, sources told ESPN. He’s expected to be reevaluated in two weeks. George has had a breakout season in his third year in the NBA for the Jazz, averaging 23.6 points and 6.1 assists in 54 games for Utah.

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Jake Fischer: The Utah Jazz are signing Bez Mbeng to a 10-day contract, per sources. The Yale product has spent this 2025-26 season with the Sioux Falls Skyforce.

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Sirius XM NBA: “His last three minutes in that game were legendary” One day after Bam Adebayo went for 83 points, @gordonhayward compares the performance to the story of Kobe Bryant’s final game with @TheFrankIsola & @Scalabrine

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Out of the Knicks rotation for most of the last seven weeks, the reserve guard returned to his old home and put on a show, scoring a season-high 27 points off the bench to help the Knicks recover from an 18-point deficit and avoid an ugly defeat to the tanktastic Jazz, 134-117.  Clarkson, who spent 5 ½ seasons with the Jazz, got a video tribute at the Delta Center and proceeded to take the fans on a trip down memory lane, flashing the microwave scoring that won him the Sixth Man of the Year here in 2021.  “I spent six years in this arena so the rims are pretty familiar to me,” Clarkson said. “It’s not the first time I’ve been hot in this arena.  “Just being able to start the flame and keep it going.” 

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