AL JEFFERSON RUMORS & GOSSIP
Breaking down the Celtics salary cap situation, and why an Al Jefferson return is possible
The NBA salary cap is weird. There's a salary cap, a luxury tax, different rules for spending money on your own players compared to other team's players, mid-level exceptions for team over the cap, mini-mid levels for teams over the tax, Larry Bird rights, ect. If you don't understand it all—I don't blame you.
However, despite all of intricacies of the cap, the...
Timberwolves look to spoil Jazz's playoff hopes
Three days after delivering one of the best performances of his career against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Al Jefferson looks to keep the Utah Jazz's playoff hopes alive in the rematch.
The Jazz will try for their fifth straight win in the series and ninth in 11 games overall as they travel to Minneapolis on Monday night.
With two games remaining, Utah (42-38) needs to win...
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April 14, 2013
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Jazz win, keep pressure on Lakers
Al Jefferson tied a career high with 40 points, including a clutch jumper with 39 seconds left, to power the Utah Jazz past the Minnesota Timberwolves 107-100 on Friday night.
The victory kept the pressure on the Los Angeles Lakers in the race for the final Western Conference playoff spot.
Jefferson scored 19 points on 9-of-11 shooting in the third to turn a seven-point deficit...
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April 13, 2013
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Jazz 107, Timberwolves 100
Al Jefferson tied a career high with 40 points, including a clutch jumper with 39 seconds left, to power the Utah Jazz past the Minnesota Timberwolves, 107-100 on Friday night.
The victory kept the pressure on the Los Angeles Lakers in the race for the final Western Conference playoff spot.
Jefferson scored 19 points on 9-of-11 shooting in the third to turn a seven-point deficit...
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April 12, 2013
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Utah Jazz: 5 Straight Wins, With Al Jefferson is Leading the Way
The Utah Jazz won 5 straight games and they are currently back to being the 8th seed in the Western Conference by half a game. Just a little over a week ago, all seemed lost, as this team had lost 12 of 15 games and looked like anything but a playoff team. But now, with Al Jefferson leading the way, the playoffs are looking more like a 50:50 proposition, rather than the impossibility...
Utah Jazz: Al Jefferson to Sign or Not to Sign
Everyone has been talking all year about whether the Jazz will resign Al Jefferson or not. I have heard reasons why and why not. However, I have not heard what anyone thinks Al Jefferson should do. In the end there are two sides of every contract. So should Al Jefferson sign with the Jazz if he receives an offer from the Jazz? And what is the one reason that should have the Jazz...
Al Jefferson Touched By Tornado Victims’ Positive Attitude After Spending All-Star Break in Disaster Area
For the sixth straight season, Al Jefferson is a reliable threat to put up 20 points and 10 rebounds every game. Yet just like the previous eight years of his career, Jefferson was left off the All-Star team this season.
The Utah big man did not mope at home during his downtime, though. After a tornado hit Hattiesburg, Miss., less than 60 miles from his hometown of Prentiss, Jefferson...
Jefferson not likely to move?
After all the speculation, rumors and wishful thinking, all the San Antonio Spurs fans that wanted to see Al Jefferson wearing silver and black will probably not get that chance. It was a fun dream while it lasted, but it looks like the Utah Jazz are intent on keeping Jefferson around.
According to Ric Bucher, the Jazz are not looking to part ways with Jefferson, but may be looking...
Rumor: Spurs in hunt for Al Jefferson?
The Utah Jazz are stuck int he middle of the Western Conference and have a big decision to make. Al Jefferson is going to be a free agent this summer and the team is itching to develop younger players stuck behind him in the rotation like Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter. And there definitely seems to be a desire to try and feature Paul Millsap more. It would make sense then the...
SLEEP COMFORT
Al Jefferson buys massive $23,000 bed
Obviously, being 6’10″ and 289 pounds, Utah Jazz center Al Jefferson has probably experienced his fair share of uncomfortable sleepless nights trying to fit is considerable frame into more conventional, standard-sized beds. And that’s including those of the king size variety. So, it stands to reason that when you make millions of dollars per year [...]
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