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After the 2015 draft, Locke said that the Jazz tried like hell to trade up for Porzingis and that he was #1 on their board. I think he said Phil Jackson wanted Hayward and Gobert, which was essentially him saying "kick rocks." After the 2016 draft, he said the Jazz tried to trade back into the first round to draft Brogdon. And he has said in the past to look for the Jazz to acquire players that they had interest in in the past (which is pretty common sense) so I'm sure the Jazz are interested in both. I don't think Porzingis is gettable, and I'm not really sure how he and Gobert would work defensively together, but Brogdon might be if Utah offers a ridiculous contract. Wouldn't be surprised if Milwaukee matches since they're going all in on Giannis and they have the new arena and everything.
We can at least leverage our cap space to give them some heartache. Offer max to Middleton... if he goes back they had to pay full price... offer max or Malcolm and if they match it likely mean no Bledsoe. 4/100-115M is so much damn money and if they think Donte can give them some of what Malcolm does and they think Bledsoe can be retained at a more reasonable price I could see them passing potentially... add in a trade kicker and make it a little poisonous. This is why FA sucks unless you get Lebron or KD... not a ton of value for small markets on non-superstar high demand talent.