The Utah Jazz saw some big strides in development from third-year center Walker Kessler this season. He finished his year putting together the best numbers of his career since entering in 2022 ...

Dec 20, 2023; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler (24) talks with head coach Will Hardy in the second quarter against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

For Jazz center Walker Kessler, he had a blunt way of putting the results of Monday's lottery in just one word. "It's unfortunate," Kessler said during a recent interview on The Pat Bev Podcast.

It turns out that there is already an idiom that perfectly describes Walker Kessler‘s second NBA season — a sophomore slump. That was, of course, after his wowing rookie season that took the ...