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Jazz Just Signed Trevor Booker According To Woj

Cyrone Torbin said:
According to Locke the 2nd year isn't full guaranteed.

I would suspect the Jazz overpaid for him this season, to acquire him for more than MLE or tax payer excpetion because they have cap room and the 2nd year is limited in how much of it is guaranteed.
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Makes sense. Don't underestimate the trade value of this contract. Let's assume at there's a player in the $8-10M range the Jazz want. Other team is really trading for the pick we have in the 10-12 range. With cap holds, there won't be space to acquire that player without giving back salaries. But with guys like Novak and Booker, it's an easy trade to make. Other team is just left with half the amount after waiving Booker.

Or, at the deadline this year, the Jazz have a nice array of salaries to mix/match at various price points: Booker, Novak, Evans, JLIII and whichever two players they keep from the non-guaranteed group (Clark, Thomas, a player released by another team?).
 
kabenac said:
Only the Utah Jazz would let Demarre Carroll walk last year and then sign Booker for double.
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Someone who doesn't understand the "tank" philosophy.
Do you think DMC would have made the Jazz a better team last year?
Would you rather have finished with the 7th or 8th best record and had someone like McDermott instead of Exum?
 
I like this signing. One of the Jazz biggest weakness with this young team is toughness, we need someone that will go out there and knock people around and be there for his teammates. The other need is 3pt shooting in big situations and would like to see them get Seth Curry for this. The Jazz really addressed the outside shooting issues with Hood but it would be nice to have one more shooter on the team for end of the half/game situations. They might have overpaid a little but not by much and this young Jazz team needs to get tougher and I am hoping Kanter can help in this area as well.
 
Shocker00 said:
The other need is 3pt shooting in big situations and would like to see them get Seth Curry for this. The Jazz really addressed the outside shooting issues with Hood but it would be nice to have one more shooter on the team for end of the half/game situations.
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Core4 said:
Someone who doesn't understand the "tank" philosophy.
Do you think DMC would have made the Jazz a better team last year?
Would you rather have finished with the 7th or 8th best record and had someone like McDermott instead of Exum?
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OK - let's just sign scrubs so we can tank EVERY YEAR.

Of course, smart guy, you will remember Utah finished 43-39 two seasons ago. At that point was it obvious we were going to suck the next season?

No! In fact, despite the salary dump trade everyone was so excited that our front court would be improved with better defense. Many people thought this since Jefferson was so bad on defense and having Kanter and Favors starting would be an upgrade.

And we had our PG of the future and we had Hayward shooting 42% from 3. And some were excited about Burks.

At that point, it wasn't obvious we were going to be one of the worst teams.
 
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