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WALKER KESSLER DEAL - What is the right number? What does it do to Utah Jazz? Roster building

Locked On Jazz - Daily Podcast On The Utah Jazz

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Utah Jazz weigh a major commitment—should Walker Kessler command $25–30 million per year? David Locke breaks down the latest contract rumors, analyzing Kessler’s true defensive impact, offensive strides, and how his possible salary stacks up against NBA peers like Rudy Gobert, Bam Adebayo, and Jarrett Allen. What does this mean for the Jazz’s roster construction under the new CBA, with big contracts for Keyonte George looming?

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0:00.0

Reports are the Jazz will get Walker done for 25 to 30 a year. Is that the right number? What does it do to them for the future? It's next on Locked on Jazz. But um, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, pow.

0:29.4

You are Locked on Jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.

0:34.4

Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:36.8

How are you?

0:38.8

I am David Locke on today's show.

0:42.2

We will look at a bunch of different things.

0:42.8

It will be kind of fun.

0:47.2

What have we learned from the playoffs this year on who on the jazz roster we should expect to be able to be rotation players and who maybe not be rotation players?

0:52.9

We're going to look at the sal-oh, this is exciting. We're going to look at the salary structure, the four remaining teams and see what we can

0:58.8

learn about roster building and the biggest contracts in the NBA and who's still playing

1:03.2

and who's not.

1:05.2

We're starting, though, with the reports from Tim Bondamps of ESPN that the Jazz will get

1:10.4

Walker Kessler signed from

1:11.9

25 to $30 million a year said with some confidence. There are a lot of murmurs around the

1:21.4

NBA that this deal is kind of understood, would be the way I would phrase it. When I talk to people around the league, everyone kind of expects this to take place at this point.

1:33.4

I don't know that that's actually 100% accurate.

1:36.4

I have not heard that from inside the jazz, which would be the place where I would decide

1:40.9

that it matters to me that I'm hearing that,

1:44.4

but I will tell you that the league expects this to be the kind of the case,

1:49.3

which is probably important about whether or not anyone's going to drop in a, you know,

1:53.8

huge offer for Walker and disrupt the jazz plan.

1:57.4

So let's look at what is 20, Tim B Bontemps who's on it. Good dude.

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