Jazz exercise team options on 3 players

The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has elected to exercise its third-year team option for forward Trey Lyles, as well as its fourth-year options on Danté Exum and Rodney Hood.

The options for all three players are for the 2017-18 season.

The 20-year-old Lyles (6-10, 234, Kentucky) enters his second NBA season after appearing in 80 games (33 starts) as a rookie in 2015-16 and averaging 6.1 points, 3.7 rebounds in 17.3 minutes.

The 21-year-old Exum (6-6, 190, Australia) averaged 8.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 22.9 minutes during the six-game 2016 preseason schedule (three starts). He returned to action after appearing in all 82 games (41 starts) as a rookie in 2014-15 and averaging 4.8 points, 1.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 22.2 minutes.

Hood (6-8, 206, Duke) is entering his third NBA season after appearing in 79 games (all starts) and averaging 14.5 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.7 assists, hitting .359 (161-449) from three-point range, in 32.2 minutes of 79 appearances (all starts) during his second NBA campaign.