The Utah Jazz have signed guard Taevion Kinsey (tay-VEE-on), guard/forward Romeo Langford, and center Nick Ongenda (on-GEN-duh). Per team policy, terms of the deals were not released.
Kinsey (6-5, 190, Marshall) played five seasons at Marshall (2018-23), appearing in 154 games (130 starts), owning averages of 17.1 points on 50.7 percent from the field, along with 4.9 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and 1.1 steals in 34.1 minutes per contest and left the school as its all-time leading scorer with 2,641 points. He was named the 2022-23 Sun Belt Player of the Year following his final college season, with averages of 22.1 points, 5.4 assists, 4.9 rebounds, and 1.7 steals in 32 games (all starts), and was also named to the 2022-23 All-Sun Belt First Team. He competed for the Utah entries at 2023 Salt Lake City Summer League and NBA 2K24 Summer League.
Langford (6-5, 215, Indiana) has four seasons of NBA experience with Boston (2019-22) and San Antonio (2022-23), posting career averages of 4.6 points and 2.1 rebounds in 16.1 minutes per contest. Last season with the Spurs, he averaged a career-best 6.9 points on 46.7 percent from the field, along with 2.7 boards, and 1.2 assists in 43 games (21 starts). Drafted with the 14th overall pick in the first round of the 2019 NBA Draft, the New Albany, Ind., native played one season at Indiana (2018-19), where he ranked first among freshmen in the conference and fifth nationally with 16.5 points per contest. Following his sole collegiate season, he was named to the 2018-19 All-Big Ten Second Team and All-Big Ten Freshman Team.
Ongenda (6-11, 230, DePaul) played four college seasons (2019-23) where he averaged 5.6 points, on 52.9 percent shooting, along with 3.7 rebounds, and 1.6 blocks in 18.8 minutes per contest, leaving DePaul ranked fourth in all-time blocks with 135. A native of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, he recorded two-or-more blocks in 35 career games. He appeared in seven games for the Jazz during the 2023 Salt Lake City Summer League and NBA 2K4 Summer League.