Shooting guard Jordan Clarkson is picking up his $14.3 million 2023-24 player option with the Utah Jazz, according to NBA insider Sarah Todd of Deseret News.
Clarkson would have become an unrestricted free agent had he declined his 2023-24 player option.
Clarkson appeared in 61 games for the Jazz this past season. He averaged 20.8 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists while shooting 44.4% from the field, 33.8% from beyond the arc and 81.6% from the free-throw line.
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Back in April, Clarkson told Sean Deveney of Heavy Sports he loves playing for the Jazz.
“I love Utah,” Clarkson told Deveney. “But I mean, it’s a business. I understand it. It is nothing for us to pack up and enjoy another experience anywhere, but the biggest thing for us is, you know, the love and support that I felt here. Utah, it has been amazing and that probably is the biggest thing that would have hurt just leaving because all the relationships and stuff that we built.”
Clarkson has career averages of 15.9 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.7 assists with the Los Angeles Lakers, Cleveland Cavaliers and Jazz. He won the 2020-21 Sixth Man of the Year Award with Utah after averaging 18.4 points.
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The Lakers were interested in trading for Clarkson at the 2023 trade deadline. However, the Jazz held onto him. One NBA executive told Deveney in April that Clarkson’s summer market may not have been all that good.
“But a lot of teams are gonna say, ‘He’s 30 and he is a high-volume scorer and doesn’t play good defense.’ That is the problem for Clarkson,” an NBA executive told Deveney. “Because most of the teams who are going to say that about him are the ones with cap space, the ones that could actually give him a good contract.”
The Jazz can sign Clarkson to an extension now. It will be interesting to see if that happens.
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