{"id":461307,"date":"2025-09-25T08:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=461307"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:26:29","slug":"utah-jazz-will-not-extend-walker-kessler-set-for-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/utah-jazz-will-not-extend-walker-kessler-set-for-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz will not extend Walker Kessler, set for free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"868\" data-end=\"1079\">The <strong data-start=\"872\" data-end=\"885\">Utah Jazz<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"890\" data-end=\"908\">Walker Kessler<\/strong> will not agree on a rookie-scale contract extension, league sources told <em data-start=\"982\" data-end=\"996\">The Athletic<\/em>. The move sets up the starting center to hit restricted free agency next summer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1081\" data-end=\"1238\">\u201cThe Utah Jazz and Walker Kessler will not reach an agreement on a rookie-scale extension,\u201d the report said, leaving the 23-year-old big man\u2019s future open.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1362\">Kessler\u2019s development as a rim protector makes him a potential target for several NBA teams ahead of the 2025 offseason.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1364\" data-end=\"1437\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Utah Jazz and Walker Kessler will not agree on a rookie-scale contract extension, league sources told The Athletic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":394789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-461307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/Utah-Jazz.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461307"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=461307"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=461307"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=461307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}