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Locked On Jazz - Daily Podcast On The Utah Jazz

DEVASTATING - Walker Kessler OUT FOR SEASON: What It Means for the Jazz and Their Future

Locked On Jazz - Daily Podcast On The Utah Jazz

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4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Walker Kessler faces season-ending shoulder surgery, shaking up the Utah Jazz’s plans. David Locke, radio voice of the Utah Jazz and Jazz NBA Insider, breaks down the impact of losing Kessler not just on the court, but on the team’s defensive identity and young player development. Locke outlines how Kessler’s absence disrupts the Jazz’s rim protection and defensive schemes, spotlighting troubling trends as opponents attack the paint with increasing success. He weighs the long-term ramifications for Kessler’s contract negotiations and explains why this injury is a setback for both the player and franchise, despite the timing arguably being less damaging to Kessler's future value.

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0:00.0

Walker Kessler out for the season.

0:05.4

No, it's not about the contract,

0:07.4

but no, there's also nothing good about it at all.

0:12.3

It's next on Locked on Jazz.

0:15.0

You are Lottledon, Bump, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.

0:26.6

You are Led-on-On-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:35.4

How are you? I'm David Locke, Radio Voice of Utah Jazz. Jazz MBA insider. This is Locked on Jazz. It's your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz. Can you insight, expertise, geeky numbers and hopefully making it way better to be a jazz fan each and every day. Thank you so much for making Locked on Jazz. Your first listen to the day. We are free

0:55.8

and available on all podcasting apps. And the everydayers out there, thank you for making

1:00.8

locked on the number one sports podcast network. The Utah Jazz, sorry, my screen is not the right screen right now.

1:14.8

I'm not sure why, so I have to figure that out.

1:17.9

I'll get the rundown for you correctly.

1:21.0

Utah Jazz announced yesterday.

1:24.3

What had was not new news actually to kind of view around the team the players had kind of there

1:32.0

wasn't like this did not have an impact I guess I'm trying to tell you so I don't think

1:34.9

this had an impact on last night's game the players I think were aware of this had been talked

1:39.6

about a little bit that Walker was when he went back he was going to get another opinion and he was going

1:46.5

to see people and that there was a real chance that he was going to have to have season ending

1:51.2

shoulder surgery he hurts it last year in the season if you recall I think he hurts it again

1:56.2

if I have my timing right on the very first day of training camp this year.

2:04.6

Talking some people going for a block shot.

2:09.7

And then it happened in the preseason and that happened to the game together. And the problem here with this is it was just happening in the regular flow of game.

2:15.3

There wasn't anything that was taking place that was, oh, that was unique, won't happen

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