{"id":737843,"date":"2026-07-01T23:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737843\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:43:14","slug":"utah-jazz-to-sign-former-l-a-lakers-center-jaxson-hayes-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737843\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz to sign former L.A. Lakers center Jaxson Hayes \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Utah Jazz have agreed to terms on a two-year, $12 million deal with free agent center Jaxson Hayes who most recently played for the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hayes\u2019 reposted the news, first reported by ESPN, to his Instagram story on Wednesday with the caption, \u201cExcited to get to work. Let\u2019s go Jazz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hayes, 26, spent three seasons in L.A. after playing the first four of his NBA career with the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Jazz are bringing back center Jusuf Nurki\u0107 on a two-year deal, but traded Walker Kessler to the Lakers on Wednesday, increasing the need to fill out their center rotation with additional players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hayes hold career averages of 6.9 points and 4.0 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Jazz have agreed to terms on a two-year, $12 million deal with free agent center Jaxson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,8793,99],"class_list":["post-737843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-news-feed-national","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}