Could the Jazz Milk Washington if The Ace Saga Sours?

[Flc]

What’s funny to me is how cheap airline tickets are and how much ****ing money even rookies make. Don’t like utah? That’s fine. For 3 years you can afford private jets every other day to get you to Vegas, Los angles, and Miami so you can live it up.

I don't think this has anything to do with Salt Lake as a place. I think it has to do with Washington back-channeling, "Come here and you'll be THE GUY." And his agent looks at Utah and sees Lauri, Kessler, Sexton, Keyonte, Hendricks and thinks, "Ace isn't going to be the guy there. The lane is not wide open."

 

[fishonjazz]

With all due respect, nobody knows if he’ll even show up.

Agree that no one knows for sure. I think he will though.
Question for now is do we already need to start having the worrisome conversation of if he will demand a trade/leave the first chance he gets? This whole thing is just kind of depressing as a jazz fan and is causing some buyers remorse by me. (I loved the pick when it happened)

 

[fishonjazz]

I don't think this has anything to do with Salt Lake as a place. I think it has to do with Washington back-channeling, "Come here and you'll be THE GUY." And his agent looks at Utah and sees Lauri, Kessler, Sexton, Keyonte, Hendricks and thinks, "Ace isn't going to be the guy there. The lane is not wide open."

In that regard, I think they are wrong. From most reports Jazz are trying to rid themselves of their vets and lol at Hendricks, Key or Kessler being "the guy". I can see the Lauri angle I guess but seems weird to not want to play with any good players and to want to lose as much as possible.
I think the lane is extremely wide open. He will get all the minutes, shots, touches, etc that he would get in washington but probably have more success in winning games in Utah.

Washington has Jordan Poole, Alex Sarr, Marcus Smart, Krish Middleton who might all want touches as well.

I mean either team is going to give him the rock a ton and play him a lot of minutes. The lane is wide open whenever you go to a team who sucked as bad as utah and washington did last year.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

No one’s going to see him ball if he doesn’t report.

They will eventually cave

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

He made a decent point about Sanders. Certainly nowhere close to apples to apples comparison between the two young men but sometimes drama can really drag you down. Sanders lost a TON of money partially due to his drama.

The very first part… about the rumors… there is some BS around this and around Omar. He is not repping Ace. He is grabbing as much money and power as he can.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Has anyone engaged with the actual premise of the thread: what would you require from Washington to give them Ace?

 

[The Midnight]

Much like teachers and policing, when politicians try to play hard ball, the issue is the union.

We’ve effectively got a hard cap right now.. safe to say the owners are very much in charge.

 

[fishonjazz]

Has anyone engaged with the actual premise of the thread: what would you require from Washington to give them Ace?

I saw a few posts about it. Saw someone say "give us Tre and a future first for Ace"
I would obviously do that.

 

[The Midnight]

Agree that no one knows for sure. I think he will though.
Question for now is do we already need to start having the worrisome conversation of if he will demand a trade/leave the first chance he gets? This whole thing is just kind of depressing as a jazz fan and is causing some buyers remorse by me. (I loved the pick when it happened)

I think most fans are feeling the same way you are right now especially when Givony couldnt get a straight answer from the agent PLUS the non-answer Ace gave at the post draft press conference/interview. (Not sire if you saw but it was pretty damning)

 

[The Midnight]

Has anyone engaged with the actual premise of the thread: what would you require from Washington to give them Ace?

We did, 7-8 pages ago.

 

[The Midnight]

Pity there is no Locked on Jazz today. (Their slogan is “your team EVERYDAY”, but actually he takes the weekends off)

Would have been fun to see Locke do damage control on the Ace situation.

 

[stitches]

Has anyone engaged with the actual premise of the thread: what would you require from Washington to give them Ace?

If the Jazz can prove this guy took money from a team to get Ace there, the Jazz can hold a loaded gun to their heads and pretty much get whatever the hell they want from them. If this is proven I would guess some serious rules have been broken and the alternative would be for league to take away multiple future 1sts from them. For example, the league made MInny forfeit the next 5 first rounders for them trying to circumvent salary cap rules with Joe Smith... this looks even more serious to me than that.