The Utah Jazz are trying to rebuild their very good team, into a very great team. They got only so far with Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, so the Jazz traded them off for massive hauls, and started rebuilding around surprise superstar Lauri Markkanen. The team has been in great shape so far, building out the roster slowly but when rumors of Damian Lillard’s interest in playing elsewhere popped up, somehow the Jazz ended up in rumors to land Tyler Herro.
The long and short of it was that the Trail Blazers were open to trading Lillard to his preferred landing spot, Miami, but Miami’s biggest chip to move was Herro.