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Draft update
June 17, 2009 by
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In the days leading up to next week's draft, I'll try to post some of the things I've heard during the day while chatting with different folks around the league. Here is Wednesday's update: 1. Speaking to the overall weakness of the draft, the Washington Wizards apparently...
Another invite
June 15, 2009 by
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The Jazz will be well represented at next month's USA Basketball minicamp in Las Vegas, with Paul Millsap set to join Ronnie Brewer and assistant coach Tyrone Corbin in taking part. DeAngelo Simmons, Millsap's agent, said Monday the third...
Boozer update
June 12, 2009 by
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It obviously didn't escape notice that Carlos Boozer was sitting courtside Thursday in Orlando for Game 4 of the NBA Finals with his wife, CeCe. Boozer filed for divorce on March 26, but he and his wife are back together. The petition still is on record with the...
Hansbrough due in Monday
June 12, 2009 by
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The Jazz announced Friday afternoon that Tyler Hansbrough will headline a group of 12 draft prospects they will be bringing in Monday for a split session of workouts. Hansbrough needs little introduction as a three-time All-American at North Carolina...
Friday report
June 12, 2009 by
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Credit the Jazz with making the hard decision instead of the easy one with Kyrylo Fesenko. They could have cited their luxury-tax concerns and declined their $870,000 option on Fesenko for the 2009-10 season. There are questions about whether Fesenko...
Game 4 analysis
June 12, 2009 by
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Watching Derek Fisher hit those three-pointers at the end of regulation and overtime in the Lakers' Game 4 victory Thursday had to feel like a punch to the gut for a certain segment of Jazz fans. For whatever reason, Fisher just has playoff magic...
The Tim Donaghy saga continues
June 11, 2009 by
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The strange case of Tim Dongahy took another bizarre twist Thursday, when a confidante told several media outlets that the disgraced NBA referee was assaulted in federal prison last November. Donahgy is serving a 15-month sentence in Pensacola, Fla., for his part in a gambling operation...
Wednesday notes
June 10, 2009 by
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Back in November, I visited the Peak Performance Project in Santa Barbara, Calif., for a story. The center's director, Dr. Marcus Elliott, has been working with Jazz players the past two summers and is very much a man in demand in NBA circles. ...
Boozer vs. the Pistons
June 10, 2009 by
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There's a lot of conjecture about just how interested the Detroit Pistons might or might not be in Carlos Boozer, with some in the Jazz organization convinced the Pistons are inclined to spend their free-agent dollars elsewhere. Based on what...
Game 3 analysis
June 09, 2009 by
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If you watched the Lakers come back from nine points down in the fourth quarter of Tuesday's Game 3 against Orlando, you might have observed that it was anything but The Kobe Bryant Show, no matter how these NBA Finals are sold. Lamar Odom got...
Meaningless free throws? Don't bet on it
June 09, 2009 by
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Three quick thoughts after Orlando's 108-104 win over the Lakers in Game 3 of the NBA Finals: 1. If you think Rashard Lewis' two free throws with two-tenths of a second remaining in the game were meaningless, think again. According to the betting line published in Tuesday morning...
An NBA writer tries to make sense out of the baseball draft
June 09, 2009 by
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You don't appreciate how sane the NBA draft is until you watch the first round of the baseball draft. With a suggested slotting system instead of a true rookie salary scale, MLB teams have to take signability into account instead of just drafting the best player...
More from Canton
June 09, 2009 by
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Hope you enjoyed the story about Kosta Koufos that ran in Sunday's Tribune. I visited Canton in March ahead of the Jazz's five-game Eastern Conference trip and it took a couple of months to complete all the interviews and get the story in the paper. ...
The Fesenko question
June 08, 2009 by
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A week from today, the Jazz will arrive at the June 15 deadline to exercise an $870,000 option to bring back Kyrylo Fesenko for next season. As of Friday, they had made no decision, and Fesenko's agent, Stu Lash, said he's in no hurry to hear one way or another...
Game 2 analysis
June 07, 2009 by
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There's nothing more unfulfilling than watching a game in which a team that deserves to win doesn't. The Magic have to steal a game at Staples Center to have any hope of winning these NBA Finals. They had victory in their sights Sunday but wound up blinking...
Game 1 analysis
June 05, 2009 by
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If Game 1 was any indication, this NBA FInals is an absolute catastrophe for the league, considering what could have been with the Lakers and Cavaliers, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, sure to cap the record ratings enjoyed during the first three rounds. ...
Sunday report
May 31, 2009 by
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The danger with the kind of absolute declarations Carlos Boozer made about returning to Utah after the Jazz were eliminated by the Lakers in the playoffs couldn't have been better illustrated Sunday. In his column in the New York Post, Peter...
Jazz expected to play in Madrid on Oct. 8
May 30, 2009 by
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It has been 66 days and counting since the NBA announced March 25 that the Jazz and Chicago Bulls would play a preseason game in London in October. Sixty-six days that we've expected and been waiting for word about the second game that the Jazz...
Draft chatter
May 29, 2009 by
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Got a text back today from Walt Perrin, the Jazz's director of player personnel, that the team won't start bringing draft prospects to Utah for workouts until after June 14. That doesn't mean the Jazz aren't busy with draft preparations. ...
Defining questions
May 28, 2009 by
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Hard to believe, but the Jazz were eliminated from the playoffs by the Lakers a month ago Wednesday. Maybe that's a better commentary on the length of the NBA playoffs - - can we please have best-of-five series in the first two rounds? - - than anything. ...
The market for Memo
May 26, 2009 by
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As tough as it is to classify players by position, one NBA truism is that centers command big contracts. Want proof? In what's starting off as a list week for the Jazz blog, here's a list of all the centers who are set to make more than Mehmet Okur next season...
The Pelinka factor
May 26, 2009 by
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Don't think that Carlos Boozer's going to command a huge contract if and when he opts out with the Jazz? I suggest you take a look at the track record of his agent Rob Pelinka in recent summers. 2008 Keyon Dooling 3 years...
The Class of 2009
May 21, 2009 by
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With the first mock drafts out this week, it's important to remember how many linked Georgetown's Roy Hibbert to the Jazz last year and how few - - none, actually - - correctly projected Kosta Koufos would fall to Utah with the No. 23 pick. ...
Will the Jazz have cap space with the opt outs?
May 20, 2009 by
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There might be some confusion out there, so I wanted to clear up something. Should Carlos Boozer, Mehmet Okur and Kyle Korver opt out of their contracts, the Jazz all of a sudden wouldn't find themselves with $26.9 million to spend elsewhere. ...
The Korver situation
May 20, 2009 by
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If you're going to listen to the interview Kyle Korver did with a sports radio station in Des Moines, Iowa, last week, my advice would be not to focus on what was said in the middle, but what was said at the end. I'm not sure what he was...
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