The Utah Jazz took a major step in the rebuild in just Year 1. After trading their three best players during last year’s offseason, (Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell, Bojan Bogdanovic), and their fourth best player mid-season (Mike Conley), many thought the Jazz were going to be years away from competing and that the Jazz would be in the hunt for Victor Wembanyama.
Turns out, both of those situations turned out not to be true. The Jazz nearly qualified for the play-in tournament, and were at a time, the top team in the Western Conference.