Asked last week about the Jazz’s predraft workouts being largely stocked with second-round or rookie free agent-type players, Vice President of Player Personnel Walt Perrin noted that between the NBA Combine and agency-run Pro Days, much of the top talent simply hadn’t been made available for teams yet.
“Hopefully our workouts will start to pick up — I think they will — really soon,” he said.
In Sunday’s double session at the Zions Bank Basketball Campus practice facility, that prediction came to fruition.
Among the 12 players who worked out for Jazz brass were roughly a half-dozen mid- to late-first-round prospects, including big men Mfiondu Kabengele (Florida State), Grant Williams (Tennessee), and Naz Reid (LSU) in Session 1; and wings/guards KZ Okpala (Stanford), Carsen Edwards (Purdue), and Dylan Windler (Belmont) in Session 2.