“Playing with Mike in the pick-and-roll is like the easiest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Kessler said in October. He’s just been so unbelievably helpful.”And that was the sentiment throughout the locker room on Wednesday night. Talen Horton-Tucker, whose locker was right next to Conley’s, said the players all found out about the trade shortly before the news broke. “It’s definitely tough, but it’s something we sign up for, and this is part of the league.”There has been a bit of a cloud hanging over the Jazz locker room for a couple of weeks now. But it hit the Jazz locker room a little harder than expected when it turned out to that the first player being dealt was Conley.
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