There hasn't been intel that the Utah Jazz plan to get rid of Jusuf Nurkic, only that he would have interest on the open market. However, it seems inevitable that his days as a Jazzman are numbered. Utah may trade him before he bolts in the offseason, but the teams that would want him would present a problem with a potential deal.
It's not like Utah should expect a haul for Nurkic, as his deal is expiring and he's fallen off a tad. The fact that there would be a market is actually miraculous. However, the one thing Utah wouldn't want is more problems should they trade him.
Trading Nurkic likely wouldn't lead to any long-term, franchise-crippling problems, but the Jazz would prefer to avoid avoidable problems. Here are the three teams that could use Nurkic, but the packages are all questionable.
Boston Celtics
The Jazz already did the Celtics a favor when they took Georges Niang off their hands to clear some cap room. Would they do another one?
Boston needs more help in the frontcourt. Losing Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford, and Luke Kornet all in one offseason left a crater in their frontcourt. Neemias Queta has held his own, but outside of him, the Celtics simply don't have any other consistently dependable big men.
Nurkic would be better than any of Boston's backup bigs, but the only way a deal could be done is if Boston trades Anfernee Simons, who is cut from the same cloth as Collin Sexton and Jordan Clarkson, two players Utah literally just dumped. Simons would get the same fate.
A Simons-for-Nurkic swap actually works despite the former making over $8 million more, but Utah would want legitimate and not expendable draft compensation in a deal like that, which Boston would probably not agree to. To summarize, Nurkic would fit with the Celtics, but they would not offer anything the Jazz would want.
Los Angeles Lakers
The Lakers are different from the Celtics in that they actually do have some intriguing young talent to dangle to the Jazz, like Dalton Knecht. However, the real issue is that the Jazz would hesitate to make the Lakers better, as doing so would lead to the pick Los Angeles owes Utah even worse.
The Lakers have the contracts to match to go get Nurkic and maybe other Jazzmen, like Kyle Anderson. They could throw in Knecht, Maxi Kleber, and Gabe Vincent to pry Nurkic from Utah. However, giving Nurkic to a team that has been pretty darn good and needs a backup center to get even better may be an ill-advised move.
Even if Nurkic is a free agent who may join the Lakers anyway this coming offseason, showing him early how good of a fit he would be next to Luka Doncic and LeBron James would further endanger the pick the Lakers owe the Jazz of becoming all the more worthless.
That asset lost the majority of its value the minute Doncic became a Laker, but Nurkic, even at this stage of his career, could potentially make it the No. 30 pick in 2027.
Golden State Warriors
The Warriors have an asset better than the Celtics and Lakers could offer: Jonathan Kuminga. With the Warriors' impending divorce from Kuminga coming one way or the other, they could utilize him to acquire some frontcourt help, which they desperately need as they are certainly lacking in that area.
Kuminga is obviously better than Nurkic is, and getting him would make the most out of the situation. The only problem is whether he would be beneficial for the Jazz or if he would get in the way. His inability to fit next to Stephen Curry is the primary reason why the Warriors did not invest in him long-term and why it wouldn't shock anyone if they trade him ASAP.
Kuminga would be a solid flyer for the Jazz, but he could also get in the way of the development of some of their other young players like Ace Bailey and Brice Sensabaugh. He could also bolt in 2027 (2026 if the Jazz decide he's not worth it).
It's not like Utah would approach Nurkic's potential market believing they are due another first-round pick, but the teams who would likely come calling like the ones mentioned above simply don't have packages with no caveats.