Utah Jazz 2024 Free Agents

The Utah Jazz have 6 players entering free agency July 1. If the Jazz want to open more cap space, they could have up to 9 players entering free agency.

Before going in-depth on the Utah Jazz’s upcoming free agents, let’s first look at their cap sheet.

The Jazz head into free agency with 9 players on guaranteed contracts, when you account for the 10th pick and 29th pick. Even though Lauri Markkanen is on a non-guaranteed contract, there’s no way the Jazz would waive him, so the Jazz technically have 10 players on guaranteed deals.

The 5 upcoming free agents written about below are Kira Lewis Jr., Talen Horton-Tucker, Kris Dunn, Luka Samanic, Micah Potter, and Johnny Juzang.

The Jazz have decisions to make on 3 players with non-guaranteed contracts:

• Omer Yurtseven - Yurtseven’s contract guarantees for $2.6 million if he’s still on the roster past January 10, 2025.

• Darius Bazley - Bazley’s contract will partially guarantee for $400K if he’s on the roster after July 25.

• Kenneth Lofton Jr. - Lofton Jr.’s contract partially guarantees as well for $400K if he’s still on the roster beyond July 25.

With Yurtseven, Bazley, and Lofton Jr. on the team, the Jazz have a roster of 13 players with $33.2 million in cap space.

The Jazz can open up to $38.1 million if they waive those 3 players on non-guaranteed contracts.

Now let’s look at Utah’s free agents.

Kira Lewis Jr. 6’1” - Restricted Free Agent

28 games played with New Orleans, Toronto, and Utah (34% of season), 9.4 minutes

Position - Point guard. Lewis Jr. played most of his minutes at the point this season with the Pelicans, Raptors, and Jazz, per CleaningTheGlass.com.

Free agent status - The Jazz can make Lewis Jr. a restricted free agent by tendering him a $7.9 million qualifying offer before June 29.

NBA Experience - At 23, Lewis Jr. has 4 years of NBA experience.

Talen Horton-Tucker 6’4” - Unrestricted Free Agent

51 games played (62% of season), 19.8 minutes

Position - Combo guard. Horton-Tucker played 79% of his minutes at the 1 and 20% of his minutes at the 2, per CleaningTheGlass.com.

Free agent status - Horton-Tucker will be an unrestricted free agent with a $16.5 million cap hold on Utah’s books and full bird rights. If the Jazz had interest in re-signing him before he can become a free agent, they would need to get an extension done before June 30.

NBA Experience - At 23, THT has 5 years of NBA experience.

Kris Dunn 6’3” - Unrestricted Free Agent

66 games played (80% of season), 18.9 minutes

Position - Combo guard. Dunn logged 60% of his minutes at the 1 and 36% of his minutes at the 2, per CleaningTheGlass.com.

Free agent status - Dunn will be an unrestricted free agent with a $2 million cap hold on the Jazz cap sheet with early bird rights.

NBA Experience - At 30, Dunn has 8 years of NBA experience.

Luka Samanic 6’10” - Unrestricted Free Agent

43 games played (52% of season), 9.4 minutes

Position - Forward. Samanic played 81% of his minutes at the 4, per CleaningTheGlass.com.

Free agent status - Samanic will be an unrestricted free agent with a $2 million cap hold and early bird rights on Utah’s books.

NBA Experience - At 24, Samanic has 4 years of NBA experience.

The Two-Way Free Agents - Micah Potter, Johnny Juzang

The Jazz can tender Potter a $2.2 million qualifying offer to make him a restricted free agent by June 29, and they can tender Juzang a $2.1 million qualifying offer by June 29 to make him a restricted free agent as well.

In 16 games with Utah, Potter averaged 3.3 points and 2.7 rebounds in 11.6 minutes per game.

In 20 games with Utah, Juzang averaged 7.2 points, 3.9 three point attempts, and he shot 41.6% from distance in 18.6 minutes per game.

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