Trade target tracker: Impact vets with years remaining
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Tracking players with 3+ seasons left under contract.
If early transactions are any indications, the Jazz may not be looking to “turn it up” this summer in an effort to be more competitive. The Jazz of course have high hopes in terms of their draft acquisitions paying off in the long term, but if in fact an opportunity arises to accelerate the timeline, it’s pretty likely to come via the trade market.
The Jazz have a lot of ways to work their way into deals: a bevy of picks, interesting young players, tradeable expiring vets, and some financial room to maneuver. They could easily use all of that optionality to generate assets as a facilitator, but the Jazz also have the tools to get into the conversation if a difference-maker becomes available.
So who could that be? Jazz brass know it’s risky to give the farm for a short-term fix, so the guess here is that they’ll be most interested if someone who has multiple contract years left is gettable.
Here is every player currently under contract for three or more seasons (not counting player option years), grouped into tiers and sorted by EPM wins added. Most of these players — especially those who have already achieved or are flirting with stardom — are highly unlikely to be available. But this can be sort of a running wish list, and we’ll update the notes on intel/fit as new information surfaces.
Last updated 6/30/25 at 2pm MDT
Current/recent All-NBA
Jayson Tatum: 13.0 EPM wins added, 4/$242M (+PO) remaining – His injury put the Celtics in a spot to make some tough financial choices, but that doesn’t mean they’d consider trading a top-5 player (four straight years on first team All-NBA). At just 27, Tatum has time to recover completely, and his game is complete enough that he’s still a franchise player even if he’s slightly less explosive upon his return.
Anthony Edwards: 12.7 wins, 4/$202M remaining – After two straight second-team selections, it’s fair to call Ant a solid top-10 player at just 23, which makes him one of the least tradeable humans in basketball.
Tyrese Haliburton: 12.0 wins, 4/$202M – He’s barely 25 and coming off back-to-back All-NBA seasons and an unforgettable Finals run. Like Tatum, he now has a long recovery process to manage, but Indiana is still very committed to the table-setting guard.
Pascal Siakam: 11.1 wins, 3/$147M – The 31-year-old has a ring and two All-NBA selections from his Toronto years, and is coming off a 6-season stretch of 22-8-4 counting stats. He’s more of a creative scorer than a ball-in-hands wizard, so probably makes the most sense next to an elite ball-handling guard (like the one he currently plays with).
Cade Cunningham: 10.8 wins, 4/$269M – The former No. 1 overall pick has gotten steadily better, culminating with his career-best 26-9-6 season and a third-team selection. It was already borderline crazy to imagine Detroit listening to offers, but now it would be completely bonkers.
Domantas Sabonis: 10.2 wins, 3/$140M – Sabonis has made third-team All-NBA twice, which means he’s probably too good to worry about positional fit with other potential pieces of Utah’s young core. Word is he, like De’Aaron Fox before him, may seek answers about Sacramento’s long-term direction.
Evan Mobley: 10.2 wins, 5/$269M – The newly minted Defensive Player of the Year is now going to make $45 million more on his pending extension, which kicks in this July. Word is Cleveland won’t consider moving the first-time all-league star.
Devin Booker: 9.4 wins, 3/$171M – Despite a disappointing year in Maricopa County, Suns owner Matt Ishbia has said it’s a waste of breath to talk about trades involving the 28-year-old star, who was fourth in MVP voting just three years ago but whose Suns missed the playoffs entirely.
Jalen Brunson: 8.9 wins, 3/$113M (+PO) – Brunson is still just 28 and has averaged 27 and 7 assists since coming to New York, on 49-40-84 shooting splits. That said, the Knicks are run by a family friend of the Brunsons who was pretty intentional about landing him.
Ja Morant: 6.3 wins, 3/$126M – Peak Ja was good enough to appear on some MVP ballots during a 2-year surge with 27-6-7 counting stats. He’s an electric downhill scorer, so the question is how much of the recent regression is attributable to the Grizzlies’ weird offensive identity, to the string of injuries, or to the avoidable distractions.
Jaylen Brown: 6.1 wins, 4/$236M – The Celtics were always going to be fascinating to watch, as even before Tatum’s injury there was word that they might try to dance around a money crunch. They’ve already moved two of last year’s top six. So what does that mean for Brown, a 4-time All-Star who has previously expressed some inquietude about the environs in Boston?
Joel Embiid: 2.2 wins, 3/$179M remaining (+PO) – He’s a perennial MVP candidate when he’s healthy, but it’s the 11th anniversary of his draft day and he has finished a season with 65+ games played (or the equivalent in a shortened season) just TWICE.
All-Stars
Darius Garland: 10.3 wins, 3/$126M – He’s a 2-time All-Star and likely the third most important guy on an Eastern Conference juggernaut. But based on how their postseason unfolded, the question likely resurfaces as to whether two guards under 6-foot-3 can be a winning combo.
Jarrett Allen: 10.3 wins, 4/$111M – Allen inked a very reasonable extension that keeps him in the 20s-to-low-30s range for the next four seasons despite a really solid impact (he made All-Star once in 2022). But he’s similar enough to Kessler that I’m not sure the Jazz would surrender a ton of assets just to have two of that archetype.
Alperen Sengun: 9.9 wins, 5/$180M – The Turkish big is a little like Sabonis: a rebounding, playmaking big who just made his first All-Star team. His outside shooting hasn’t really come around yet, but his rim defense is a little better than Sabonis’ tier.
Bam Adebayo: 8.7 wins, 3/$144M (+PO) – It breaks my brain a little that Bam (who’s been in the league long enough to make three All-Star teams and finish top 5 in DPOY five times) will turn just 28 this summer.
Tyrese Maxey: 7.6 wins, 4/$169M – This writer is a little trigger-shy about 6’2″ guards who are primarily mid-efficiency scorers, but it’s hard to deny Maxey’s transformation to a bona fide 25-ppg guy. He’s also still just 24.
Scottie Barnes: 6.7 wins, 5/$234M – He had a really rough outside shooting year (on pull-ups and C&S alike) that brought his career average down to 30%, and while the talent is there, he hasn’t yet had a season at even league-average efficiency. Context certainly matters as Toronto has asked a lot of him, but he has plateaued some after an All-Star selection in year three.
LaMelo Ball: 5.7 wins, 4/$169M remaining – He’s dynamic, fun, young, and also has averaged 35 games played over the last three seasons. Yikes. But that could go a couple of ways. Steph Curry was also thought to be fragile early on in his Hall-of-Fame career. If Ball can stay healthy (big if) and address some efficiency woes (also a big if), today’s concerns could look silly 10 years from now. Or, you know… not.
Lauri Markkanen: 4.3 wins, 4/$196M remaining – The Jazz already employ this particular 1-time All-Star, but we’re including him for the sake of completeness. Obviously the win math is artificially deflated by the number of games missed, and this writer is still convinced that the best version of Markkanen is unleashed next to a true table-setting guard. (He barely missed All-NBA after just a half season with Mike Conley Jr.)
Zion Williamson: 3.7 wins, 3/$126M remaining (partially guaranteed) – The Pelicans have signaled an openness to moving the 2-time All-Star, who’s a force of nature when he’s healthy. It’s just that he’s rarely fully healthy. He still has yet to play in a playoff game or make All-NBA, which is kind of wild given the amount of obvious talent.
Dejounte Murray: 1.7 wins, 3/$97M remaining – His 3-year peak was 21-6-7, and at the front end of that he earned his only All-Star nod as an injury replacement. The sense I get is that the Jazz’s interest in him in previous transaction cycles was pretty cost-dependent, I would assume that’s still the case after an Achilles tear that interrupted what was already a bit of a down year.
The best of the non-All-Stars (≥5 wins added):
Ivica Zubac: 12.8 wins, 3/$53M – From “advanced stats darling in a defined role,” Zu has ascended to where he has a credible case for being the second or third most important player on a 50-win team. Once a lob finisher, solid rim protector, and rebound magnet, he’s now showing off some increased offensive ability to boot. He’s a highly impactful player, and a good model for someone like Kessler to emulate.
Derrick White: 11.3 wins, 3/$91M (+PO) – White at this point should be on the short list for best active player with no All-Star selections. He defends (2-time all-defense), shoots, passes, rebounds well for a guard, and is incredibly smart, which is why Boston is reportedly getting a ton of phone calls about the guard who turns 31 years old this summer.
Franz Wagner: 9.2 wins, 5/$224M – It’s a little unfair to call him a non All-Star as he was on track to make it before an ill-timed oblique injury. He completed the regular season at 24-6-5 averages, and is a 6-foot-11 athlete who’s up-and-down as a shooter (average TS% overall), but gets to the paint a ton.
Payton Pritchard: 9.0 wins, 3/$23M – Pritchard was thought of as just a low-minute advanced stats stud, but this year the Celtics carved out a bigger role for him (28.4 mpg) and all of his statistical markers have held up — or even improved. He’s more of a scoring guard than a pure table-setter, but makes good decisions in P&R/iso and is a solid interior finisher despite his size (6’1″, generously).
OG Anunoby: 8.9 wins, 3/$128M (+ PO) – One of the knocks on Anunoby was availability, but he just came off a 74-game season with career-best 18 points per game. And his ceiling on the other end of the floor is borderline All-Defense (he got second team honors two seasons ago).
Jamal Murray: 8.1 wins, 4/$208M – He’s the consensus “best player not to make All-Star,” and he’s younger than you probably think (28), so this one gets interesting as a thought exercise. Would he, Lauri Markkanen and all these young players be a good enough core to start winning? It’s probably moot, as he’s the perfect complement to the 3-time MVP who lockers next door to him.
***Desmond Bane : 7.8 wins, 4/$163M – Bane was already traded to Orlando for four picks, a swap, and veteran help.***
Josh Hart: 7.3 wins, 3/$63M (w/ TO) – Here’s another do-it-all warrior. You kind of wish the outside shooting was better, but he makes up for that by being one of the game’s best rebounding guards, and a heady glue guy. But he’s 30, and he’s part of the Villanova clique running the show in New York.
Jaden McDaniels: 6.2 wins, 4/$110M – I’ve expressed support for the McDaniels idea before, because he’s already a top 10ish defensive guy and he’s still expanding his offensive game. He doesn’t solve the Jazz’s need for more self-creation, but he’s gotten much better as a second-side attacker. With Minny’s ownership situation finally resolved, so we’ll see what the vibe is now that they got ousted in the WCF for a second straight year.
Isaiah Joe: 6.2 wins, 3/$35M (w/ TO) – I love Joe, but this is higher than I would have expected to see him ranked from a win math standpoint. He is mostly an outside shooting specialist, the type of threat you just can’t leave alone at all. I personally think of him more in the role player tier (and OKC used him less and less as the playoffs wore on), but maybe he has another level in him.
Deni Avdija: 5.6 wins, 3/$39M remaining – The Israeli is a big wing who can handle a bit, and just had a career season (16.9 ppg on .605 true shooting) after being liberated from the Wizards. He’s come up in previous transaction cycles as a guy who had/has fans in Utah, and he’s still just 24.
Naz Reid: 5.4 wins, 5/$125M remaining – After Minnesota’s bench big recommitted, he too now has a long-term deal. He was last season’s top sixth man, and with Julius Randle also re-upping, likely stays in that role.
Value-adding role players (≥3 wins added)
Wendell Carter Jr.: 4.8 wins, 4/$70M remaining (w/ TO) – Despite being a center who neither shoots (<32% career 3pt, 23.4% last year) nor protects the rim (1 block per 36 minutes), Carter was pretty solid in his first three Orlando seasons because he was very effective in the paint. But his rim finishing also fell last season, making it his least efficient season since he was a rookie.
Aaron Wiggins: 4.7 wins, 4/$34M remaining (w/ TO) – A big two who can defend, pick pockets and shoot, Wiggins is locked in on a super affordable deal. He’s a complementary piece, but might be able to contribute beyond his current role as a 7th/8th man.
Onyeka Okongwu: 4.7 wins, 3/$48M remaining – The 24-year-old has gotten better in each of his five NBA seasons, and has officially taken over at Atlanta’s starting center. He’s even starting to take a couple of threes at a semi-decent clip, but his real value is as a pogo stick who also has strength to bang inside.
Andrew Nembhard: 4.6 wins, 3/$59M remaining – Nembhard has been a Pacer fan favorite for a while, but grabbed the world’s attention this spring as a suffocating defender who can credibly guard one through three. He had a rough shooting year, but for the second straight year shot lights out during a deep playoff run.
Scotty Pippen Jr.: 4.5 wins, 3/$8M remaining (w/ TO) – In his first year as a rotation regular, Pippen hit 40% of his threes, dished 9.6 assists per 100 possessions, and rated as a plus defender despite his size (6’1″), and he had some big playoff games filling in for the injured the Morant (albeit in a first-round sweep loss).
Alex Caruso: 4.4 wins, 4/$81M remaining – The 2-time all-defense selection didn’t appear in enough games to get votes this year, but he’s still a known disruptor whose commitment on that end makes him a winning piece — even before you factor in career 37.6% outside shooting.
Moses Moody: 4.0 wins, 3/$38M remaining – When the Warriors had to reimagine their rotation after the Jimmy Butler trade, they installed Moody as a starter next to Jimmy, Steph, Brandin Podziemski and Draymond Green, and the result was a 16-3 record with that group, but then he had a pretty quiet postseason, especially on offense.
Daniel Gafford: 4.0 wins, 4/$69M remaining – He’s a new entrant into the “3+ years left” club thanks to a new extension, but the numbers he got mean this energetic big man is still trade-eligible.
Trey Murphy: 3.8 wins, 4/$112M remaining – Murphy is probably better than his placement on this list would suggest: 6’8″ guys who pile up 21-5-4 on above-average efficiency are pretty damn valuable. He’s 25, and had previously been thought to be relatively untouchable, but with the front office change in New Orleans, who knows?
Aaron Gordon: 3.8 wins, 3/$89M remaining (+ PO) – Gordon is either the 3rd or 4th most important player on a team that’s two years removed from a trophy celebration, so again, take the “wins added” stat with a grain of salt here. He’ll turn 30 before the season, though, so it’s not necessarily the tidiest timeline fit.
Royce O’Neale: 3.5 wins, 3/$33M remaining – A reunion with the almost-32 O’Neale doesn’t seem super likely for the yet-rebuilding Jazz, even though the Utah alumnus is coming off his most productive offensive year.
Sam Merrill: 3.5 wins, 4/$38M remaining – Win math stats love efficient shooters, so the placement here might be overvaluing him some — but the USU product just got a nice sub-MLE sum to keep sniping away for Cleveland.
Jabari Smith Jr.: 3.4 wins, 6/$134M remaining – A new deal for the promising youngster makes him one of the longest-term contracts in the NBA.
Jalen Johnson: 3.3 wins, 5/$150M remaining – The Hawks are high on the 23-year-old, whose win metrics are artificially low because he missed half of the season. He’s a multi-position defender who’s starting to grow into more of a role on the other end, averaging 19, 10 & 5 this year (albeit in just 36 games)… so don’t get any big ideas.
Immanuel Quickley: 3.2 wins, 4/$130M remaining – IQ also missed most of the year, and generally I’m a little more slow to fall in love with small guards who are mostly mid-efficiency scorers.
Jalen Suggs: 3.1 wins, 5/$151M remaining – This might be my very favorite name in this part of the list for what the Jazz need moving forward, but the Magic’s acquisition of Bane seems to suggest they’re trying to turn the corner as opposed to entering “seller” mode. They got just six games this season with all of Suggs, Paolo Banchero and Wagner healthy, so they’ll probably want to see if Suggs’ improvements as a shooter and scorer can hold up.
Sam Hauser: 3.1 wins, 4/$45M remaining – Hauser exists primarily to come off of screens as a knockdown shooter in 8th/9th-man type of minutes. That’s important, but probably matters more to a team trying to round out a rotation than to a team that still hasn’t figure out who its 1A star is going to be.
Jonathan Isaac: 3.0 wins, 4/$59M remaining (partially guaranteed) – Isaac has insane defensive potential, although the bottom did fall out on his shooting (41-26-68 splits) in his first full-ish season in six years. The Jazz are kind of hoping Taylor Hendricks could have a defensive ceiling somewhere approaching Isaac’s.
Devin Vassell: 3.0 wins, 4/$106M remaining – Here’s another guy whose profile is way better than “3.0 wins added” would suggest. He’s a movement shooter whose percentages don’t necessarily make him look unstoppable, but he has gravity that bends defenses. The Spurs’ lottery luck might make Vassell more of a luxury given that Dylan Harper is certainly in play at #2.
All other players with 3+ years left (other than rookie scale contracts)
Justin Champagnie: 2.7 wins, 3/$8M (w/ TO, non-guaranteed)
Jaylin Williams: 2.5 wins, 3/$24M (w/ TO)
TJ McConnell: 2.2 wins, 4/$45M (w/ TO, partial guaranteed)
Isaiah Stewart: 1.7 wins, 3/$45M remaining (w/ TO)
Jay Huff: 1.5 wins, 3/$8M (w/ TO, partial guarantee)
Vit Krejci: 1.4 wins, 3/$8M (w/ TO, partial guarantee)
Obi Toppin: 1.2 wins, 3/$45M
Terance Mann: 0.9 wins, 3/$47M
Nic Claxton: 0.7 wins, 3/$69M
Ajay Mitchell: 0.5 wins, 3/$9M
Svi Mykhailiuk: 0.4 wins, 3/$12M (w/ TO, non-guaranteed)
Justin Edwards: 0.3 wins, 3/$7M (w/ TO/NG)
Jaden Hardy: 0.1 wins, 3/$18M (w/ TO)
Johnny Juzang: 0.0 wins, 3/$8M (non-guaranteed)
Corey Kispert: 0.0 wins, 4/$54M (w/ TO)
Nate Williams: -0.1 wins, 3/$8M (w/ TO, partial guarantee)
Patrick Williams: -0.5 wins, 3/$54M (+ PO)
I didn’t include any players on first-round rookie deals because the threshold for a team to trade them is different, especially if there’s even a hint of star potential. Nine second-rounders from the 2024 draft are on deals that could last three more seasons, and they’re similarly unlikely to be traded, but for the sake of completeness, they are:
Jaylen Wells: 5.4 wins, 3/$7M (w/ TO)
Kyle Filipowski: 0.2 wins, 3/$9M (w/ TO, partial guarantee)
Tyler Smith: 0.2 wins, 3/$7M (w/ TO, partial guarantee)
Tyler Kolek: 0.1 wins, 3/$7M (w/ TO)
Johnny Furphy: 0.1 wins, 3/$7M (w/ TO)
Oso Ighodaro: 0.1 wins, 3/$7M (w/ TO, partial guarantee)
Adem Bona: 0.1 wins, 3/$7M (w/ TO, partial guarantee)
Cam Christie: 0.1 wins, 3/$7M (w/ TO, partial guarantee)
Bronny James: -0.3 wins, 3/$7M (w/ TO, partial guarantee)
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