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Could the Jazz Milk Washington if The Ace Saga Sours?

tksavis said:
It’s interesting that Ace had such a national profile already. Maybe we’re a bit uncomfortable with the stupid drama, but it’s part of the glitz and glamour of the game. We should embrace it, and Ace with it. It’s good for the team and the franchise.
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I agree with this. The old jazz wouldn’t have drafted him to avoid the drama but I love that they took a chance.
 
Schrödinger's Gerbil said:
Surprisingly, getting alcohol here is easier than several Eastern or Southern states. When I lived in Maryland, for example, you couldn't buy beer in convenience stores. Here, every convenience store is well stocked with beer. Now that the stupid "club membership" law is gone, and we simply have bars, and they're reasonably plentiful in SLC. This particular stigma is lagging well behind reality.

Perhaps an even bigger stigma, however, is Utah's association with the Mormon Church, which is viewed as a kind of strange religion outside of Utah and generally viewed quite negatively by those of a more Evangelical bent. (Although their perceptions are based on a log of misunderstanding/misinformation.)

I will say this, however, I've hung and worked with Born Again and Evangelical Christians, and I'll take Mormons over them any day as a group. My experience, Mormons are much better at compartmentalizing religion from their normal work-a-day life. The others are much more likely to wear their religion on their sleeves and violate personal boundaries. That's only my experience, however. I can't speak for others.
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As someone from what is maybe the least religious country in the world who came out to Texas for grad school and have lived in California and Utah since, at least no one here has tried to "talk with the spirit" to me here. It's a weird place, but at least as an outsider so were Austin and the Bay Area. It's been my favorite flavor of weird in the US, but European players are famously more ok with these "small markets" and I am white and like nature

I will say I have been invited by two different people here to go to their church with them, and Mormons got to stop pretending it's fun. It's just a business meeting where everyone looks asleep and then they all act like they loved it after. I like disassociating in all-hands company meetings as much as the next person, but I'm not spending my weekend doing it.
 
I thought the “will Ace play for the Jazz” saga would be over in a few weeks, but it only took a few hours for it to become a non story.
 
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