Utah Jazz front office leaders Dennis Lindsey and Justin Zanik said after the team’s season concluded that they have great interest this offseason in signing franchise cornerstones Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell to contract extensions.
Nevertheless, a prevailing thought outside the organization is that the duo will try to trade Gobert if they don’t want to sign him to a supermax extension for which he is eligible and Gobert becomes unhappy about that, for fear they’ll lose him for nothing next offseason when he becomes a free agent (Utah and Mitchell are expected to agree to a rookie maximum contract extension this offseason as soon as they’re able).