Jones Athletic's Jazz reporter on Kessler He's one of the 4 or 5 best rim protectors in the league He affects winning I think he can be another Rudy Gobert He's good enough defensively that he can be a walking top-10 defense He's a guy who can one day win a Defensive Player of the Year award

Laker Legend Byron Scott says Lakers are pretenders Defense wins championships still in this league At the end of the day you got to get stops right Kessler at the center position he better average about 8 blocks a game because they're going to be getting a lot of blow-bys

KOC On Lakers adding Kessler There's a reason why he costed that much He's an elite interior defender elite lob guy elite interior finisher elite screener and he started hitting spot up threes last year There's a chance we look back at this deal as an underpay depending on how he performs

Franko Kessler's 46 offensive rebounds per game led the league in back to back years Since 1999 there have been only 3 players age 24 or younger averaging 10 points 10 rebounds 2 blocks and 4 offensive rebounds per game Elton Brand in 2003 Dwight Howard in 2009 and Walker Kessler in 2025

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Klay Thompson on Giannis Antetokounmpo and his impact His interior scoring is one of the best ever and his jump shot is greatly improved Now you can't sag off him like you used to He will punish you and he's just an incredible talent who has a great will to win

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