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At this level, it is clear, and it is no secret in any respect, that the Utah Jazz are eagerly awaiting the 2025 NBA Draft and are placing all of their decision-making efforts towards touchdown a prime decide. To this point, so good.
So long as the Jazz can safe a top-10 decide, they are going to hold their very own decide in 2025 (if it falls exterior the highest 10, the decide will go to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder). Nevertheless it’s not simply their very own decide that the Jazz will probably be taking part in with within the 2025 draft.
The Jazz may even have the Cleveland Cavaliers’ first-round decide, though because the Cavs presently have the most effective file within the NBA, that decide seems to be fairly near the underside of the primary spherical. However there’s one other first-round decide the Jazz have that might show extremely helpful: the Minnesota Timberwolves’ first-round decide.
Following the Rudy Gobert commerce to the Timberwolves, there wasn’t a lot hope that the 2025 decide would materialize as a lottery decide. And after final season – one other unbelievable season for Anthony Edwards coupled with a fourth Defensive Participant of the 12 months award for Gobert – it appeared like issues have been going properly for the T’Wolves, however that is not the case. Every part has gone properly in Minnesota this season, which is nice information for the Jazz.
To this point this season, the Timberwolves have performed round .500 basketball. That does not sound that unhealthy in any respect, besides within the Western Convention meaning they battled between the eleventh and eighth seeds. Just a few unhealthy days and so they may simply discover themselves in lottery territory.
So, should you’re a Utah Jazz fan, taking over the Timberwolves throughout the the rest of the 2024-25 season is a extremely good thought.
Minnesota would not have a really busy schedule for the remainder of the yr, nevertheless it does have some powerful video games on the schedule that features three matchups towards Oklahoma Metropolis, three video games towards Denver and two extra video games towards the Cavaliers.
In the meantime, the Jazz have one of many 10 hardest schedules for the remainder of the season, a schedule that bodes properly for these hoping to see the Jazz rack up losses heading into the 2025 lottery.
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