The Utah Jazz have agreed to sign Luka Samanic to a 10-day contract.

Samanic is averaging 22.0 points, 8.1 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 29.3 minutes over 27 games in the G League this season with the Maine Celtics.

Samanic was the 19th overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs and was waived before his third season.

The New Orleans Pelicans were involved in trade discussions with the Utah Jazz on a deal for Jarred Vanderbilt and Malik Beasley, but those players were eventually traded to the Los Angeles Lakers instead. The Lakers and Pelicans are competing for a spot in the play-in and New Orleans also gets to swap picks if the one belonging to Los Angeles is more favorable.

As part of a three-team trade, the Jazz also traded Mike Conley to the Minnesota Timberwolves with D'Angelo Russell going to the Lakers. That element may have prevented the Pelicans from getting a deal done for Vanderbilt and Beasley. 

"The Pelicans were close to getting Beasley and Vanderbilt from Utah at the trade deadline," said Zach Lowe on his podcast. "Or close-ish. They had a pretty good offer on the table. It was a draft equity based offer with a pick that maybe was not as good as the Lakers' pick they ended up trading, but pretty close I think from what I've heard.

"But one of the issues was Conley and the Jazz' determination to get off Conley and could the Pelicans figure that somehow? And it became pretty complicated.

"That trade ends up helping the Lakers, helping the Wolves, and the Pelicans don't get involved in it and now they're falling apart."

The Utah Jazz have signed Jarrell Brantley to a 10 Day contract. Utah was coming up on the deadline to fill their 14th standard roster spot and filled it with a familiar face in Brantley.

Brantley previously spent parts of the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons with the Jazz. In 37 NBA games, the 6-foot-5 wing averaged 2.4 points in 6.3 minutes per game.

This season, Brantley played for New Zealand of Australia's NBL. In 39 games, Brantley averaged 15.7 points, 6.0 rebound and 1.5 steals. Brantley has also played professionally in Russia and Puerto Rico.

Kris Dunn has agreed to a contract with the Utah Jazz for the remainder of the season.

Dunn is averaging 11.6 points, 4.8 assists and 4.8 rebounds for the Jazz.

Dunn was on two consecutive 10-day contracts with the Jazz.

The Utah Jazz have ruled Collin Sexton out for another week due to a hamstring strain. Sexton has missed Utah's last five games with this current injury. He previously missed 13 games due to an earlier hamstring strain.

In his first year with the Jazz, Sexton has averaged 14.3 points on career-best 50.7% shooting from the field, including a career-high 41% on three-pointers. The fifth-year guard took over as a starter for Utah after the Jazz traded Mike Conley to the Minnesota Timberwolves ahead of the trade deadline.

The Utah Jazz signed Kris Dunn to a second 10-day contract.

Dunn's original 10-day contract expired on Saturday.

Dunn is averaging 12.0 points and 4.5 assists in 22.3 minutes with the Jazz. 

Walker Kessler and Paolo Banchero have been named the NBA's Rookies of the Month for February.

Kessler averaged 10.6 points, 11.4 rebounds and 3.2 blocks in February.

Banchero averaged 16.6 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.3 assists for the month.