URGENT: Walker Kessler EXTENSION is $100 million GAMBLE worth it for Utah Jazz?

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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David Locke, radio voice of the Utah Jazz and Jazz NBA Insider, explores the potential Walker Kessler extension and its implications for the team. Recent free agent signings have set a market that could push Kessler's value to $25 million per year, a significant increase from earlier projections. Locke analyzes comparable contracts, including those of Jakob Poeltl, Naz Reid, and Myles Turner, while considering the Jazz's perspective and potential negotiation strategies.

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0:00.0	the market may have been set for a walker kessler extension and that might not be good news
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1:12.2	Every dayers, you're the greatest. Thanks for being here. Here's what we got today. We'll
1:16.2	look at the latest rumors of the NBA. Touch on the LeBron and DeAndre Aiton's stuff a little bit.
1:20.8	That's reawares. Jonathan Kaminga going. What's the latest on that? Summer League
1:25.8	preview as we get going on saturday and the walker
1:30.2	kessler extension is probably the next big news for the utah jazz so let's start there
1:36.1	free agent signings have had three deals have had seven centers have signed deals three of them them are what Walker Kessler's camp is likely
1:47.1	to look at and say, well, this is what we should do. And I'm not sure this is a good thing
1:53.6	for the jazz. And where the jazz, I don't know, but what I suspect the jazz think a deal
2:00.2	should be.
2:03.1	So let's look at the seven deal.
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