Celtics (19-12) at Jazz (12-19) Game #32 12/30/25

[Phantom255x]

Utah is starting to make some strides despite what the record says. Keyonte George is a beast. Collier, Filipowski and Clayton are good young pieces to continue to develop. Markannen probably isn't a long term fit there but I'd explore seeing if you can land another young piece and picks at some point, and then you get Kessler back next year too to go along with a Top-10 pick this year

They have some nice pieces and it will be interesting to see how Bailey develops. Team needs a quality starting wing. George and Markannen are playing at an All-star level.

Actually I also forgot Markannen signed a big extension with Utah and it started this year. They can keep and build with Lauri around, the goal will be to try and land another star player at some point via FA or trade to go along with the young pieces.

I wonder if Utah also realizes their lottery luck has been poor and are no longer truly tanking anymore. They'll still be bad this year, but probably not "atrocious" or not trying levels of bad. It's probably more now about development of the current guys.

Utah has to tank in order to keep their pick. I believe it is top 8 protected. Will go to OKC otherwise.

Oh right I forgot. But then again with their luck the lottery might still give it to OKC