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From Tony Jones https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6399102/2025/06/03/whats-next-for-jazz-after-hiring-austin-ainge-as-president-of-basketball-operations/ 1. Jazz have mostly only worked out second round prospects so far, planning to work out guys around 21 next, and then finally guys in...

That seems semi reasonable I guess.

The Wizards also didn't want Kuzma to be good the last two years. His value went from "two firsts" to "negative value contracts" despite being on tanking teams as teams could tell that he had declined significantly as a player regardless of the tanking. This evaluation ended up being correct...

View: https://bsky.app/profile/andyblarsen.bsky.social/post/3lqqhgyft4m2g Looking like we'll trade Sexton and Collins instead of not tank.

View: https://bsky.app/profile/andyblarsen.bsky.social/post/3lqqhaau7yp2a Not a very encouraging quote for fans of Tre Johnson and Ace Bailey and very much a quote for VJ and Kon fans. Tre is kind of soft and Ace is very much not a team-first guy. VJ and Kon are very team focused and tough...

Jaylen Brown won Finals MVP last year, do you guys realize how stupid you sound.

Wrong, Lauri will have two years on his deal left when Wemby's max starts. Anyway, again, the issue is that Lauri just wasn't good last year.

There's not much precedent in any direction from the recent Celtics picks.

Even if they don't love Harper, they need to keep Harper in case Giannis asks for a trade. These small scale trade don't make any sense when the Spurs are probably looking to trade this pick for a star to win right now.

To go back a couple years, the Thunder offered basically everything to move up to #3 to get Evan Mobley (and Evan Mobley desperately wanted to go to OKC and told the Cavs not to draft him) and the Cavs told the Thunder to go **** themselves...

This is absolutely nowhere close to the value needed, guys. We're going to have to sell the farm to move up to #2. Even if San Antonio doesn't like Harper, they're going to want to move him for Giannis. It would take 5, 21, the 2031 Suns pick, our best 2027 pick, Lauri, and Filipowski.

Matt Moore rumors: -Fears is having monster workouts and interviews and his floor is 6 -Magic are trying to get a guy who makes around $25m (it's probably Simons from Portland)

Maluach shooting threes is a very stupid idea. He can't dribble and he's an elite finisher, there's no reason for him to be at the three point line ever. This makes no sense.

Lauri has very little trade value after how bad he was last year. It would be 5, 21, Lauri, Filipowski, and future firsts for 2.

Or he's just being smart because there's a bunch of teams that could trade up? This is an insane jump.

Is there any insight from Ainge Jr's drafting record to give information about the Jazz at 5 and 21.

#5 for Ja and then he misses 52 games with various injuries time, baby. Not sure what the thinking is here at all. This roster is just so terrible and so devoid of any upside and without attractive picks (before 2031) to hopefully get stars. John Collins for Jrue seems like it could happen...

Congrats to the Celtics for managing to get rid of Jrue Holiday's contract!

Best lineup the Jazz could assemble without giving up good picks PG: Tyus Jones SG: RJ Barrett SF: Kuminga PF: Markkanen C: Kessler Bench: Filipowski, Tre Johnson (or whomever at #5), Keyonte, Collier, Hendricks, The issue is that this is easily the worst defensive team in the NBA. Getting...

Stein says there's a 0% chance the Celtics trade Jaylen Brown. If there's any Celtics deal to be made, it's probably a panic deal of John Collins for Jrue.