SALT LAKE CITY – Utah Jazz general manager Justin Zanik has rejoined the team after undergoing a kidney transplant in April.
Zanik underwent surgery on April 2 after experiencing kidney failure throughout the 2023-24 basketball season.
The Jazz announced on social media that Zanik had returned to the team’s practice facility little more than seven weeks after the surgery.
Zanik’s return coincides with the Jazz’s pre-draft preparation which shifted from the NBA Combine in Chicago back to Salt Lake City this week.
Zanik received his donation via the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation which links living donors with recipients in need of a healthy kidney.
Through the APKD, a family friend of the Zaniks in Milwaukee donated his kidney to another anonymous recipient on behalf of the Jazz general manager.