UNCERTAINTY: Utah Jazz Rotation DRAMA— Which YOUNG PLAYER made the Jump into Next Year's Rotation

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Utah Jazz’s young core faces uncertainty as playoff aspirations accelerate—who will step up next season? David Locke breaks down game 80, spotlighting Keyonte George’s absence, Lauri Markkanen’s rotation impact, and standout growth from Biyce Sensabaugh and Cody Williams. Key stats, including Sensabaugh’s hot shooting and Williams’ defensive upside, fuel a riveting debate: does the NBA’s old-school sixth-man scorer still fit in today’s stagger-heavy rotations?

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0:00.0	We're at game 80, and I might know less now about which of these young guys is involved
0:09.4	next year than I knew before. Next on Locked on Jazz.
0:14.2	But um, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum.
0:18.2	You are Locked on Jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.
0:28.6	Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:35.1	How are you?
0:36.0	I am, David Locke.
0:37.0	This is Locked on Jazz. Today's show, Will's Wednesday. We'll talk about
0:41.6	Ace Bailey's plan. They've built it off Jason Tatum and Kevin Durant. We'll talk more about his year.
0:47.2	It might be done with a knee contusion, not sure we see him again against Memphis or L.A.
0:52.6	Does the sixth man that scoring Vinnie Johnson microwave Jordan Clarkson
0:58.5	type player still actually exist in the NBA? But we're going to start. We're through game 80.
1:05.0	As I like to say, I got one more sleep in a bed and two more landings I need to get done with this season.
1:12.8	Not that I'm eager for the end. I love the seasons when they happen, but let's move the page. And there is a little
1:16.8	level of like we just take enough plane flights. You just want to land them. So we've got one more
1:23.5	home game, which will be fun on Friday. By the way, if you've not done it before,
1:26.4	you're coming to the game Friday, please bring your noise-canceling headphones, listen to the event sound app, check it out so you can do it again next year. We love that feature we built this year for you. We're the only team in the league that does it. Exclusive content. Very excited that we did that this year. All right, we're at Game 80. At every 10 games we've marked our players and what we've learned about our young players. Keante has not played in the last
1:50.4	10 of the seven young players that started the year. Keante certainly jumped himself ahead of
1:55.9	everyone else. And then I think in addition to that, then we traded Taylor Hendricks and Walter Clayton Jr.
2:06.4	So we're kind of down to four.
2:08.9	And the question has been this entire time, we've been looking at this and asking ourselves,
2:15.2	which of these players is most likely to be a
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