Meanwhile, the NBA’s trade deadline looms and there are still more deals to be done.

The Utah Jazz have already made three trades in the last two weeks. • On Jan. 21, the team traded three first-round picks, the least valuable of their assortment of picks in 2025, 2027, and 2029, to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for their 2031 unprotected pick.

The Utah Jazz must appear to the other 29 NBA teams like the overachieving kid in school who is always the first person to raise their hand in class to answer a question or do something.

That’s right, you can finally rest easy knowing that Danny Ainge has been on the phones, using walkie-talkies and string-wired tin cans to keep tabs on the landscape of the trade deadline. With an ear to the ground and a carrier pigeon to the sky,