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Chad Ford predicts David Lee will sign with the Jazz

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NBA free agency tips off tonight at 12:01 a.m. ET. How will it all go down? We asked our experts for their best guesses on where the top 10 free agents will land this summer.
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Where will David Lee sign?
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Ford: Utah Jazz. If Boozer goes to New York, I can see the Jazz getting Lee back as part of a sign-and-trade. Jerry Sloan would love him. More likely than 50-50? No.
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https://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?page=FreeAgency-100630

FWIW, none of the "experts" predicted Boozer will re-sign with the Jazz.
 
Maybe. Perhaps they feel they need to add the extra year onto the deal that a S&T would provide to lure Boozer over other spots and figure Lee was gone anyway.
 
I would love to have David Lee if we didn't have either Millsap or Memo, but he's not a good fit with the other two on board. Unless we unload Memo in the S&T and use our 6.5M trade exception to pick up a defensive minded C, then I'm think it's a horrible move. I think David Lee is a steal on a team like Charlotte which already has plenty of long centers and need a offensive minded PF badly.
 
The Jazz having that hack AND Hayward would be an abomination. Hellooooooo .500 record, bloated payroll, and no significant assets moving forward. I'd rather let Boozer walk for nothing than to be the first team stupid enough to give Zach Morris sizable long-term salary.
 
Lee is still going to want big money as well. So I think to avoid a huge luxury tax hit we would have to throw in somebody else as well. Perhaps Miles or a combo of players such as Price and Koufos.
 
NUMBERICA said:
The Jazz having that hack AND Hayward would be an abomination. Hellooooooo .500 record, bloated payroll, and no significant assets moving forward. I'd rather let Boozer walk for nothing than to be the first team stupid enough to give Zach Morris sizable long-term salary.
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This stat guy (Haberstroh) at ESPN seems to like Lee quite a bit.

https://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/news/story?id=5314277

Another "Insider" story, sorry. Not sure how much of this I can quote w/o getting in trouble.

With Carlos Boozer and Amare Stoudemire, Lee completes the free-agent triumvirate of scoring power forwards who can't play defense. However, Lee distinguishes himself from Boozer and Stoudemire with his will to improve his game and all-out effort that enamored the New York Knicks' fans... In his first three seasons in New York, Lee developed a reputation as a cleanup artist on the block without a complementary midrange game. That all changed this past season, when he shot nearly 400 jumpers between 16 and 23 feet -- more than his first three seasons combined -- and ranked among the league leaders with a 43.4 percent conversion rate, according to Hoopdata.com... According to Synergy Sports Technology, Lee is already one of the best pick-and-roll big men in the business, averaging 1.31 points after receiving the ball on a pick-and-roll, better than any of his counterparts in free agency. (That efficiency rate helps refute arguments that his stats are inflated by Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni's system.)... Teams make it a nightly priority to abuse Lee on the block... But after considering the splash premium that Stoudemire likely will receive, Lee could be a real bargain this summer. By many measures, including John Hollinger's player efficiency rating, Lee even ranks as the better player of the two. And that's before one considers Lee's spotless injury record...
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I'm still predicating a dud for movement. I think Stoudemire/Dirk/James/Wade(a given) all remain in the same spots.
 
NUMBERICA said:
The Jazz having that hack AND Hayward would be an abomination. Hellooooooo .500 record, bloated payroll, and no significant assets moving forward. I'd rather let Boozer walk for nothing than to be the first team stupid enough to give Zach Morris sizable long-term salary.
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