Chandler was selected by San Antonio in the second round of the\u00a02022 NBA draft<\/a>\u00a0(No. 38 overall) and traded to Memphis.<\/p>\n He appeared in 36 games for the Grizzlies during a rookie 2022-23 season, splitting time with the Memphis Hustle, the team’s NBA G-League affiliate, before being waived in April, 2023.<\/p>\n Chandler also played in the NBA G-League for the Long Island Nets (2023-24), Raptors 905 (2024-25) and the Delaware Blue Coats (2025-26).<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n He played for Tennessee during the 2021-22 season, appearing in 34 games, including 34 starts. Chandler averaged 13.9 points, 4.7 assists, 3.2 rebounds, 2.3 steals and 0.2 blocks per game.<\/p>\n The former Vol was a Second-Team All-SEC performer (2022). He was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team and was named SEC Tournament MVP after helping Tennessee win the SEC championship.<\/p>\n Utah will next play Friday versus Memphis. Tipoff is slated for 9:30 p.m. EDT at Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.<\/p>\n Follow Vols Wire on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 8, 2026, 7:31 a.m. ET New Orleans (26-54) defeated Utah (21-59), 156-137, Tuesday at Smoothie King Center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[72400,7,423,6,77586,73480,72696,88010,73732,72526,73815,72687,72403,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-705388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-jazz","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sstssportscollegevolunteersmens-basketball","13":"tag-sstsnmens-basketball","14":"tag-tagfacebook","15":"tag-tagkennedy-chandler","16":"tag-tagsec-conference-mens-basketball","17":"tag-tagsmg-timely","18":"tag-tagtennessee-volunteers-mens-basketball","19":"tag-tagtwitter","20":"tag-typestory","21":"tag-utah","22":"tag-utah-jazz","23":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116369695980687520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775660547_781_89287754007-usatsi-28563133.jpg\")