[Charania] Utah’s Walker Kessler is undergoing season-ending left shoulder surgery for a torn labrum, sources tell ESPN.

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1. Brutal. Every team wanting to trade for him punching the air rn.

2. holy fuck. what happens to his next contract. was a contract year

3. Wtf

4. just like that, his trade value crashed

5. Danny Ainge fucks up again

6. WTF happened????

7. Incredibly unfortunate, and awful timing for both parties with the contract situation/reported desire to turn him into more picks. Hope recovery goes well.

8. Had no idea it was this bad. So sad for him

9. Presti can’t keep getting away with this

   OKC owns Utah’s draft pick

10. Was starting to wonder how they were going to tank and keep their pick this year.

    Hope Lauri gets moved to a contender for his sake.

    Sorry Jazz fans :/

11. Big contract year for him too. That’s rough.

12. For diehard Jazz fan who think he’s the future, this is awful.

    For casual Jazz fans who love to kick up dust on the trade machines, this is awful.

    Awful all around and it’s rough when young players on the ascent have to sit out the whole season.

13. What the hell

14. Jesus, great start to the season from him, trade value was going up…brutal, brutal, brutal. Fuck injuries.

15. Wow! How crazy!

16. Jazz just got Kessler on a value contract because of this

17. Yikes. Contract year too

18. Oof

19. NOOOOOO

    At least we’ll be pretty much guaranteed to get a high pick this year again

20. That’s awful, he looked like he was having a huge leap this season. Hope he recovers well and returns with that same trajectory

21. The tank is on!

22. The tank improves

23. He isn’t joining the Snowtime Lakers now.

24. Terrible…

25. Genuinely feel bad for the guy, contract year and is gonna cost him a lot

26. Mfs in here acting like a torn labrum is gonna stop him from getting paid

27. Shoulder injuries are so fucking terrible, no one really knows how bad they are until it happens to you. Such a long and painful recovery, my first shoulder surgery had a 12 month recovery timeline and it was 3 months before I could even put a belt on by myself.

28. Being a jazz fan is brutal

29. Yeah most here talks about trade value but I am more sorry to he go down.

    There arent too many good Centers in the league. He washed almost an upcoming one. Hope gets back to this level soon

30. Fucking hell, man.

    Last year was Hendricks. This year Kessler. Can we not lose a fun young player super early every year?

31. damn that really sucks. feel bad for him, as he was setting up a big contract for himself

    on the bright side, duren’s gonna eat tonight

32. Kevin time in SLC