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Burks out for the season *Confirmed*

The Midnight

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Per NBA.com

https://www.nba.com/jazz/news/alec-burks-injury-update-december-30-2014

SALT LAKE CITY (December 30, 2014) – The following is a medical update on Utah Jazz guard Alec Burks, who has missed the last two games with a left shoulder injury:

After examination by the Utah Jazz medical staff it has been decided that Alec Burks will undergo a surgical repair on his injured left shoulder. The procedure will be performed by Jazz head orthopaedic team physician, Dr. Travis Maak, on Wednesday, Dec. 31 at the University of Utah. As a result, Burks will miss the remainder of the 2014-15 season. He is expected to be ready for the start of 2015 Jazz training camp.

“Alec's long-term health has been our top priority throughout this process, and although it is unfortunate that we will be without his services on the court the rest of this season, we commend Alec's commitment and continued effort to play through considerable pain to this point,” said Jazz General Manager Dennis Lindsey. “After continued consultation with our medical staff, Alec and his representation, we have unanimously agreed that it would be most prudent for Alec to have this procedure performed now in order to ensure that he will be healthy and ready for the start of next season.”

The 23-year-old Burks (6-6, 211, Colorado) appeared in 27 games (all starts) with the Jazz this season, averaging 13.9 points and career-highs of 4.2 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 33.3 minutes. He also was shooting a career-high .382 from three-point range and .822 from the line while scoring in double figures in 22 of 27 games, reaching 20-plus points four times, and registered his first two career double-doubles. Prior to missing the last two games, Burks had seen action in 105 of a possible 111 games over the past two seasons, including 78 games in 2013-14. The fourth-year guard was originally selected by the Jazz in the first round (12th overall selection) of the 2011 NBA Draft.
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This is a huge bummer. Burks is my favorite player on the team. He really needed this year to get familiar with Snyders system. But I'd rather him take care of the surgery now than in the off season.
 
Feel terrible for Alec, but it was my opinion he should have had the surgery originally and not tried to play on it. Gives him plenty of time to be ready and now Hood gets a ton of minutes.

The tank is back on.
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It was the right decision his inside scoring was at 49% compared to 64% last year. He was favoring it. Having Hood and Ingles as big minute wings will help the tank considerably. Not top 3, but top 6 easily.
 
That's too bad, but hopefully this surgery will fix what ever is wrong. Get well soon! I'm excited to see Hood get a lot of burn starting too.
 
let's look at the bright side. We will lose some games that we could win. We will get a good player in the upcoming draft. Hood + Exum will play more. Burks willl be 100 % health next season.
 
Damn it

I thought he was having a good year. If he had played last night we would have won.

I would like to see us address our back court next year. I love our big 3 up front. But our back court is meh. Exum is soft and burke isn't athletic enough. Exum? I haven't seen anything to suggest he's a pg. I like hood.
 
Remember the intentional foul by affalo. He was interviewed after the game and said something to the effect that he shouldn't be suspended because Alex wasn't hurt. Well not so much. Affalo deserved a suspension.
 
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I have actually liked the Exum, Burke, Hayward experiment. It does go to hell quickly minus Hayward however. . .
 
The Thriller said:
Damn it

I thought he was having a good year. If he had played last night we would have won.

I would like to see us address our back court next year. I love our big 3 up front. But our back court is meh. Exum is soft and burke isn't athletic enough. Exum? I haven't seen anything to suggest he's a pg. I like hood.
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Certainly leaves us with more options if Exum shows he can be a combo guard. Could go after a PG, SG or SF in the off-season.
 
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