Sources: Hornets land Sexton from Jazz for Nurkic

The Utah Jazz are trading defender Collin Sexton and a 2030 second-round prime to the Charlotte Hornets for halfway Jusuf Nurkic, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania.

The Jazz are clearing country successful their backcourt aft selecting talented guards Ace Bailey and Walter Clayton Jr. successful past week's draft.

Sexton, 26, has spent the past 3 seasons successful Utah and averaged 18.4 points and 4.2 assists. He's led the Jazz successful full points successful each of the past 2 seasons and recorded career-highs successful 3-point percent (41%) and escaped propulsion percent (87%) this past year.

Sexton could beryllium a replacement for constituent defender Tre Mann, who is simply a restricted escaped cause this summer. Sexton has 1 twelvemonth and $19 cardinal remaining connected his woody earlier helium hits escaped bureau adjacent summer.

The Hornets acquired Nurkic arsenic the commercialized deadline past play from the Suns, wherever helium spent the past 2 years. He joins a halfway rotation successful Utah that includes Walker Kessler and Kyle Filipowski.

Nurkic, 30, is besides connected an expiring woody worthy astir $19 million.