Walker Kessler's season-ending shoulder surgery is undoubtedly a setback for the Utah Jazz, as evidenced by them losing all but one of their games since losing him on Halloween. However, the one sort of upside to his injury is that it justifies a universally hated move the Jazz made this offseason: trading for Jusuf Nurkic.
When it was announced that the Jazz had swapped Collin Sexton for Nurkic this summer, it was met with a colossal, "WHAT?!" While a Sexton trade felt like it was coming one way or the other, getting only Nurkic and having to give up a second-rounder, confused pretty much everyone because Sexton was seen as the better player and his best days were ahead of him.