

Still, not every Jazz teammate defaulted to humor first when discussing Kessler’s personality.

The bad joke/dad joke was met with a combination of laughter and eye-rolling groans. They know my order when I walk in,” he concluded. We have one literally like a two-minute drive from my house. Denver, Kessler was rapturously extolling the virtues of Waffle House - the primarily Southern-located breakfast chain restaurant that is also infamous for attracting dubious clientele - for the umpteenth time. Still, Kessler’s teammates do have a point.ĭuring his exit interview with media ahead of the home finale vs. He’s funny, but I don’t think he means to be sometimes.” “I don’t know why he’s saying that - he makes just as lame of jokes as me. “Oh, of course he’s gonna say that - he’s jealous he didn’t think of them first,” Kessler insists. The onetime campaign manager will not let his All-Star client’s crack about “lame jokes” go without a retort. Kessler, hearing all of this, takes it in stride and chuckles about it, letting the light-hearted, good-natured critiques roll off of him.Įxcept for Markkanen’s. “Oh, it’s unintentional,” Potter answers without a hint of doubt. Micah Potter, the two-way contract signee, and arguably Kessler’s best friend on the team, gets the final, definitive word. “They’re so bad it’s funny,” JC concedes, cracking up. Just laid-back,” responds Jordan Clarkson. “He’s a hard worker, so it’s obviously good to share the court with him, but in the locker room, he’s an even better guy - throwing out those lame jokes and thinking he’s funny,” Lauri Markkanen adds with a smirk. “Almost like ‘The Office,’ you know what I mean?” replies Kris Dunn. While there is near-universal agreement that the rookie big man is expertly sarcastic and generally humorous, there’s also something of a debate within the team’s ranks about just how much of it is actually intentional.

His sense of humor is as good a place to start as any, considering if you ask any of Kessler’s Utah Jazz teammates what he’s like, nearly every single one begins to laugh before getting even a single word out.
