For what it's worth, Locke said they had been in negotiations before Kanter's public comments, and that his public comments didn't really affect anything at all. I think that was in his interview with someone at 1280, probably DJ & PK.
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For what it's worth, Locke said they had been in negotiations before Kanter's public comments, and that his public comments didn't really affect anything at all. I think that was in his interview with someone at 1280, probably DJ & PK.
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Yeah i heard that too, but im not sure if i believe that they make this trade without Kanters comments. Not that i dont see the logic, just that sometimes i think Locke is basically Jazz PR and his goal is to sell tickets.
I understand what you mean. But what surprised me in his answer was that there was no hesitation. And his point seemed valid, that the Jazz had already decided that they wouldn't match likely offers because they didn't feel that he would be worth that much to them as they already had two better front court players. So I think it's plausible.
Exactly. I'm pretty confident in the assumption that Lindsey was committed at the beginning of the year to seeing what the three bigs could do. And when Favors and Gobert both emerged, and Kanter didn't, it became a pretty easy decision.