1 contract every NBA team would want back
By Ian Levy
Utah Jazz: Maybe Jordan Clarkson?
Now that I broke the seal and let the Spurs off the hooks, I have to consider it for the Jazz as well. They signed some deals that looked shaky in hindsight — Bojan Bogdanovic, Mike Conley, Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell — but they were all reasonable in chase of a championship and they were able to get off all of them without too much trouble, setting themselves up nicely for a rebuild.
Looking at the deals they’ve signed since last summer, there aren’t really any eyesores, even if four years and $79 million for Collin Sexton turns out to be too big a gamble. All I’m really left with is the four-year, $51 million contract they signed Jordan Clarkson to in 2020. But they’ve gotten decent value from the deal and even if he just opted into the final year, chewing up anticipated cap space, they can still trade him at the deadline this year to recoup some value. But I guess if he plays out the deal and they can’t find a good trade, maybe this is regrettable.