WHO STAYS?: What players SURVIVE the Roster Shakeup, and the HARSH Reality of NBA TURNOVER

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Utah Jazz fans face a burning question: when the team returns to contention, who will actually remain on the roster? Drawing sharp comparisons to the recent rebuilds of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, and Detroit Pistons, David Locke examines why only a handful of players typically survive the transition from tanking to winning—raising pressing questions about the futures of Keyonte George, Lauri Markkanen, and rising prospects.

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0:00.0	When we're good, who's actually going to still be on the roster?
0:09.2	Next on Locked on Jazz.
0:11.5	But on 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 bum bum bum bum bum.
0:20.6	You are lockeded on Jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.
0:25.6	Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:32.0	How are you?
0:32.7	I'm David Locke, Radio Voice of Utah Jazz, Jazz, NBA Insider.
0:36.0	Today's show, we are going to look at a Trends Monday, the last and final one of the year.
0:42.4	I had something happened to me this weekend that has me a little more concerned about how good we might be next year than I thought we were going to be.
0:54.7	And I had an interesting experience looking at some other teams,
1:02.6	have done what we've done and what their rosters look like,
1:05.5	which leads to the number one question of the day,
1:08.8	who's going to be here when we're good?
1:16.5	So I don't know, but if we just walk through it for a second here and walk through the thought process, by the way, today's show
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1:34.9	Clearly don't quite know how to start this show.
1:38.0	So we're watching Kyle and we're watching Cody and we're watching Bryce and we're watching Blake Hinson and all
1:45.7	these guys and we're wondering like how does this matter what's real what's not and I suddenly
1:54.3	went online and looked to see four years ago the Oklahoma City Thunder were doing the same thing
2:00.6	we were doing and in a game against us on this date four years ago the oklahoma city thunder we're doing the same thing we were doing and the game
2:01.7	against us on this date four years ago they started zavier simpson jalen horde vic crayche
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