In a recent podcast, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst stated that he believes the Utah Jazz are primed to make a significant deal relatively soon.

For anyone that thought that Dennis Lindsey was going to simply rest on the job and stand pat in free agency following the departure of Gordon Hayward, the last 24 hours have certainly proven that wrong. The Jazz have added three solid veterans on extremely economical agreements (all of which are two-year deals) in Thabo Sefolosha, Jonas Jerebko and Ekpe Udoh.

But if a recent report from ESPN’s Brian Windhorst is to be believed, these moves may be mere child’s play compared to what’s coming next.

According to Windhorst, a big move by the Jazz may be coming soon. https://t.co/GpyE2hQUCB — Tweets McGee (@JazzHoopsLife) July 13, 2017

These three moves might back up Windhorst's comments about the Jazz making a major move "relatively soon." — David J. Smith (@davidjsmith1232) July 13, 2017

On an episode of ESPN’s The Basketball Analogy Podcast that was released on Wednesday, Windhorst had the following to say regarding the Jazz:

“I think Utah is primed to make a deal here relatively soon that may change the composition of their roster… that may be an informed comment.”

This is a very interesting statement considering all that Utah has done thus far. If Windhorst is reporting as much, I would suspect that the three moves made so far could very well be precursors preparing for whatever may be about to happen next.

It’s been long reported that the Utah Jazz are trying to move the $7.5 million non-guaranteed contract of Boris Diaw which becomes guaranteed this Saturday. However, that alone wouldn’t net the Jazz all that much in return and certainly wouldn’t “change the composition of their roster” as Windhorst indicated.

One player who has been mentioned as potentially on the trade block for the Jazz for seemingly quite some time is Derrick Favors, and some have speculated that if Windhorst, who follows LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers extremely closely, is providing insight on the Jazz, then it could in some way entail a Derrick Favors for Cavs forward Kevin Love transaction.

This, of course, is largely fan speculation and doesn’t necessarily have much backbone, but it’s still an interesting thought. There’s certainly been no shortage of rumors about Cleveland wanting to move Kevin Love and although he has his deficiencies, he was an Eastern Conference All-Star who is a formidable scorer, would pair very well alongside Rudy Gobert and had some of his best years playing alongside Ricky Rubio, who the Jazz just recently added as their starting point guard.

While I’ll accept the mantra, “In Lindsey we trust” if such a move is made, I must say I’d be pretty disappointed to see Derrick Favors let go even if it were to acquire Kevin Love. Love is certainly a better stretch-four and could bring an interesting dynamic to the Jazz, but I feel hesitant to let the younger Derrick Favors go, despite his struggles with injuries.

He showed flashes in the 2015-16 season that seemed to indicate that he could be a rising star for the Jazz and I’d like to think that could still become reality. On the flip side, he will be an unrestricted free agent following the 2017-18 season, so if the Jazz have reason to believe that he’ll seek to leave anyway, then dealing him could be the most prudent move.

Once again, this is largely speculation, although the Windhorst report certainly breaths life into an idea that some kind of blockbuster move could be near at hand. At the very least I imagine the Diaw contract will be moved, then from there we’ll see if anything further happens next or in conjunction.

Given how busy the Utah Jazz have been in the last few hours, it quite truthfully wouldn’t surprise me at all.