{"id":482179,"date":"2026-02-03T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=482179"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:22:07","slug":"jazz-shock-the-market-utah-lands-jaren-jackson-jr-in-blockbuster-deal-with-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jazz-shock-the-market-utah-lands-jaren-jackson-jr-in-blockbuster-deal-with-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz shock the market: Utah lands Jaren Jackson Jr. in blockbuster deal with Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first true blockbuster of the final stages of the NBA trade market comes from one of the least expected teams: the <strong>Utah Jazz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz front office have convinced the <strong>Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong> to part ways with <strong>Jaren Jackson Jr.<\/strong>, the 26-year-old big man who has yet to fully enter his prime but is already a <strong>former Defensive Player of the Year and two-time All-Star<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The full details of the deal , via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\"><strong>Shams Charania<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Jazz acquire<\/strong> Jaren Jackson Jr., John Konchar, Jock Landale and Vince Williams Jr.<br \/>\nThe <strong>Grizzlies receive<\/strong> Walter Clayton Jr., Kyle Anderson, Taylor Hendricks, Georges Niang and <strong>three future first-round picks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Few around the league expected such an aggressive move from Utah. With this trade, the Jazz clearly put their foot on the accelerator, betting on a core built around <strong>Jackson Jr., fellow All-Star Lauri Markkanen, and Most Improved Player candidate Keyonte George<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In Memphis, the direction is much clearer. The Grizzlies\u2019 stash of future draft capital now rises to <strong>13 first-round picks over the next seven drafts<\/strong>, putting them in the same tier as the <strong>Thunder and Nets<\/strong>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BobbyMarks42\/status\/2018757434492477649\">Bobby Marks<\/a>. It also makes it increasingly likely that <strong>Ja Morant<\/strong>, the other crown jewel of the roster, will be heavily discussed in trade talks leading up to the deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Defensive Player of the Year and two-time All-Star joins the Jazz in surprise trade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":346454,"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-482179","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\/2023\/09\/jaren-jackson-jr-photo-fiba-team-usa-world-cup.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482179","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482179"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=482179"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=482179"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=482179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}