Meanwhile, the NBA’s trade deadline looms and there are still more deals to be done.

• On the morning of Feb. 1, the Jazz traded veterans Drew Eubanks and Patty Mills to the L.A. Clippers, receiving a second-round pick in 2030, P.J. Tucker and Mo Bamba in return. Bamba has already been waived, and Tucker hasn’t played in the 2024-25 season and looks unlikely to do so for the Jazz.

The Utah Jazz must appear to the other 29 NBA teams like the overachieving kid in school who is always the first person to raise their hand in class to answer a question or do something.

That’s right, you can finally rest easy knowing that Danny Ainge has been on the phones, using walkie-talkies and string-wired tin cans to keep tabs on the landscape of the trade deadline. With an ear to the ground and a carrier pigeon to the sky,