The players on the Utah Jazz roster welcomed Ace Bailey with open arms as soon as he stepped foot in Salt Lake City.

“Soon as I jumped off the PJ,” Bailey said. “We clicked right away. I mean, first practice in the summertime, we all just clicked. Summer League, we clicked. We all came together.”

That they made him feel welcome, gave him the space to ask questions and have told him how valued he is to the group has gone a long way in the early part of the rookie’s development.

Bailey had a bit of a breakout game on Tuesday night. In a 152-128 win over the Indiana Pacers, Bailey scored 17 first-half points en route to his first 20-point NBA game, to go with four rebounds. And although he was all smiles and felt good about getting 20 points, it was his single assist to Lauri Markkanen tha

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