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Category Player Current Team Contract Status Salary Cap Hit Outgoing (MIN) Josh Green Utah Jazz (incoming) Expiring $14.7 million Incoming (MIN) Cody Williams Minnesota (incoming) Rookie scale, $7.67M team option for 2027-28 ~$6.5 million/year Incoming (MIN) John Konchar Waived, to be stretched N/A $6.2 million (stretched to ~$2.05M/year over 3 years) For the Jazz, it’s a straightforward add. Green, 25, is a career 38.7 percent three-point shooter who profiles as a plug-in perimeter defender, exactly what a Utah team that’s ranked 29th or 30th defensively three years running needs. The younger brother of Jalen Williams struggled through two lottery-pick seasons in Utah, shooting 21.4 percent from three last year.
He joins Josh Okogie, signed this summer, as another defensive-minded wing.
But his defense improved late in the season, enough that ESPN’s Zach Lowe said “there’s a world in which he’s a functional eighth to tenth guy” on a good roster. Cody Williams goes the other way as the bigger swing. SB Nation’s SLC Dunk named him Utah’s second-most-improved player of the year.