With Lauri Markkanen set to miss significant time with injury, NBA fans are already calling it on this Utah Jazz season.
This was expected to finally be the year that the Utah Jazz were to make a concerted push for the playoffs. The team has finished 12th or lower in each of the last four seasons since they blew up the Donovan Mitchell-Rudy Gobert core and began to rebuild.
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They have picked high in the draft, and also managed to get players like Lauri Markkanen and Jaren Jackson Jr. in. However, they have started this season 1-11 and things are only getting worse. Now, with some recent bad news about Markkanen, hope seems lost yet again.
NBA fans predict the Utah Jazz will be the NBA’s worst team this season
While there is a lot of talent in the NBA and on the Jazz as well, some teams are just bad. Utah have finished last in the Western Conference for two seasons running and it seems this year will only be a slight improvement, if at all.
Shams Charania shared the news of Markkanen’s injury on Wednesday, and NBA fans have seen enough to know this will be another losing season for the franchise.
“Time to tank once again, man I can’t imagine being a fan of the Jazz lol,” one fan wrote. “I had the Jazz as a top 5 team in the west and 4 of their 5 starters are injured,” another commented. “Utah inventing new ways to tank lmfao,” a third fan said.
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“Terrible management. He should’ve been traded two seasons ago,” a fourth fan suggested. “You can take the tank out of the league, but you can’t take the tank out of the Jazz,” another joked. “They spent the past 4 years making up injuries to tank, and now they have a real one,” a sixth fan observed.
Some of these issues are certainly out of the team’s control, but another season at the bottom of the league might just end up being one too many. A rebuild only makes sense as long as the team is eventually competitive, and the Jazz’s issues persisting does not bode well for the franchise’s future.
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