Will Hardy is a very intense coach. Maybe he's the guy that gets JJJ to play hard and focused every night (or at least more often than the Grizzlies did).
This is exactly what the Jazz want. Now they need to figure out an injury to sit Markkanen the rest of the season.
Jazz found out about in during their medicals, if they wanted to void they could have. Reports were saying Jazz was ok with it. JJJ, his agent, the team all agreed on surgery (before it gets worse). It's their their tanking year, they're not going to lose any sleep over it. Jazz ($500k) and Pacers ($100k) got fined for tanking recently, they have a handful as it is.