UNLOCKING - Team Chemistry: Human Connection at the Heart of the Utah Jazz Rebuild | Ace Bailey up close

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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David Locke, radio voice of the Utah Jazz and Jazz NBA Insider, spotlights the critical role of relationships and human connection in shaping the Utah Jazz’s young core. Exploring the journeys of Keyonte George, Taylor Hendricks, and Brice Sensabaugh, Locke reveals how years of constant movement between schools and teams have prevented these emerging stars from building long-lasting bonds—until now. Keonte George’s leadership emerges as he unites teammates through off-court trips and shared experiences, setting the stage for deeper trust, self-discovery, and on-court chemistry. With the departures of veterans like Collin Sexton, Jordan Clarkson, and John Collins, Locke suggests that this season may be the first real opportunity for Utah’s youth to unpack—both literally and figuratively—and grow together over time.

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0:00.0	Relationships and time matter.
0:09.5	Yep.
0:10.2	I'm talking about basketball.
0:11.7	Next on Locked on Jazz.
0:14.5	But um,
0:14.7	bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, pow.
0:27.7	You are lockeded-on Jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.
0:32.7	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:56.6	How are you? I'm David Locke, Radio Voice of Utah Jazz. Jazz NBA insider. This is Locked on Jazz. It's your daily podcast on Utah Jazz. Give me 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 of the day, we are free and available on all podcasting apps. And thank you so much for making Locked on Podcast Network,
1:04.6	the number one sports podcast network. Appreciate it very much. And the everydayers out there,
1:28.9	you are the best. All right, here's we got today's show. I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to get you to understand what being around Ace Bailey's like. I've decided you're actually just going to get Ace Bailey. Ace Bailey did a media session yesterday. That's seven minutes. I'm just going to play it for you. Close the show today. I thought, like, just you've got to get a feel and a flavor of the energy and the effervescateness is the word I keep using and the contagious kind of
1:35.5	juice and youthfulness of this kid. It's great. He's really like, you know, he's just got a huge
1:40.7	smile every single day. He's, um, he's really eager and happy to be here. He's really eager and happy to be here.
1:46.3	He's really eager and happy to play.
1:48.8	And it comes across.
1:50.5	And I wanted you to feel that.
1:52.0	So we're going to do that to close the show.
1:53.2	I've got some odds and ends left for Media Day to wrap that up before we do our Q&A tomorrow of our Ask LOJ edition of the show.
2:02.6	Yesterday we talked a lot about veteran leadership.
2:05.5	And I said I'm a skeptic, but this feels like a little different.
2:08.8	That may have come out to be true.
2:10.3	We'll talk about that here in a little bit.
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