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Jazz Signed J.J. O'Brien

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SALT LAKE CITY (August 28, 2015) – The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has signed free agent forward J.J. O’Brien. Per team policy, terms of the deals were not released.

O’Brien (6-7, 220, San Diego State) played one season at University of Utah (2010-11) before transferring to San Diego State (2011-15) to finish his collegiate career. He averaged 10.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.4 assists during his senior campaign with the Aztecs. O’Brien earned a 2014 All-Mountain West Conference honorable mention after posting eight double-figure scoring efforts and logging two games with 10-or-more rebounds as a junior.

The 23-year-old forward was a member of the Utah Jazz at the 2015 Utah Jazz Summer League where he saw action in all three games, averaging 4.0 points and 2.3 rebounds in 13.0 minutes. He also played with the Jazz entry in the 2015 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, owning averages of 4.6 points, 1.8 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 18.8 minutes.

A native of San Diego, O’Brien played high school basketball at Alta Loma High School in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
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Is this the 25th man on the roster? I swear the Jazz have signed more scrubs this summer than in the past 5.
 
Cool. J.J. O'Brien plays tough, he's kind of got some Matt Harpring to his game.

San Diego State has quietly been producing fringe NBA talent for years, and they shouldn't slow down anytime soon either.
 
franklin said:
Is this the 25th man on the roster? I swear the Jazz have signed more scrubs this summer than in the past 5.
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They just bought the Idaho Stampede. I think this is more about looking for guys that would be willing to play there and be on the shortlist for a call up. The shot at a ten day contract, playing in the NBA summer league, attending training camp, and of course the shot at eventually making your dream of getting a legit NBA contract might be enough for some guys to forgo heading over seas. If the Millers can use one business to enhance the other you know they will. Some of these signings are more about the future of the Stampede(and the D-League in general) than they are about the Jazz.
 
♪alt13 said:
They just bought the Idaho Stampede. I think this is more about looking for guys that would be willing to play there and be on the shortlist for a call up. The shot at a ten day contract, playing in the NBA summer league, attending training camp, and of course the shot at eventually making your dream of getting a legit NBA contract might be enough for some guys to forgo heading over seas. If the Millers can use one business to enhance the other you know they will. Some of these signings are more about the future of the Stampede(and the D-League in general) than they are about the Jazz.
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I sure hope so because . . . . BORING.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Actually 20th.. I forgot to count Neto.
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20 is the limit, I believe.

♪alt13 said:
They just bought the Idaho Stampede. I think this is more about looking for guys that would be willing to play there and be on the shortlist for a call up. The shot at a ten day contract, playing in the NBA summer league, attending training camp, and of course the shot at eventually making your dream of getting a legit NBA contract might be enough for some guys to forgo heading over seas. If the Millers can use one business to enhance the other you know they will. Some of these signings are more about the future of the Stampede(and the D-League in general) than they are about the Jazz.
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I think this is no different than any other team with a 1-to-1 DLeague relationship. And now each team can waive up to 4 players but assign them to their affiliate without them going through the DLeague draft. Graham, O'Brien, Cooley and Johnson? seem destined for the Stampede.
 
BTW for some reason the Jazz Roster website doesn't currently have Neto's face there... not sure why???


The only reason I can think of is they're afraid his photo being there might crash the site with excessive traffic from all the young girls that will be visiting that page.


https://www.nba.com/jazz/roster
 
ONE LOVE said:
BTW for some reason the Jazz Roster website doesn't currently have Neto's face there... not sure why???


The only reason I can think of is they're afraid his photo being there might crash the site with excessive traffic from all the young girls that will be visiting that page.


https://www.nba.com/jazz/roster
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I'm sure if you're looking for a pic to help out as you grab the lotion and tissue paper, you can find one on google.
 
happens every year. Kinda bugs me too. What I want to know is: seeing as the stampede is a team owned, er, team, can other teams sign them to ten day contracts? or do the Jazz have full rights for the full contracts? I do like the idea of teams having their own development league, but it might be limiting to the players themselves.
 
cctrackstar said:
happens every year. Kinda bugs me too. What I want to know is: seeing as the stampede is a team owned, er, team, can other teams sign them to ten day contracts? or do the Jazz have full rights for the full contracts? I do like the idea of teams having their own development league, but it might be limiting to the players themselves.
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If a player isn't on an NBA's team 15-man roster, the contract is owned by the DLeague. The DLeague team still pays the salary, but that player is free to sign a contract with any NBA team - even the four "affiliated" players a team may have. The only protection the NBA team gets is that these 4 players aren't exposed to the DLeague draft.

That's the great thing about the DLeague. It would be grossly unfair to a player if he had to play for $20K just because he was stuck behind a few others and couldn't crack that team's NBA roster. Great example is guys like Cotton, Millsap and Johnson. Utah was able to fill out their roster by grabbing players from several DLeague teams - not just the Stampede.

DLeague is headed in the right direction, it just needs to be funded so players can earn more money and more of them stay in the U.S. The league can then expand to 30 teams: one for each NBA franchise. There is just too much disparity between the rookie minimum in the NBA (just over $500K) and the DLeague max (a little over $20K).
 
Word on the street is they actually meant to sign JJ Barea but someone messed up the paperwork so they got summer league fodder instead.
 
Lost_Jazz_Fan said:
Word on the street is they actually meant to sign JJ Barea but someone messed up the paperwork so they got summer league fodder instead.
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Story I heard was Justin Zanik and Dennis Lindsey were at the breakfast buffet, naturally discussing personnel and contracts before officially starting their work day. Zanik got up and asked Lindsey what he wanted. Lindsey, who had just stuffed a blueberry mini-muffin in his mouth, mumbled "potatoes o'brien," thinking Zanik was going back for seconds, not to his office.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Story I heard was Justin Zanik and Dennis Lindsey were at the breakfast buffet, naturally discussing personnel and contracts before officially starting their work day. Zanik got up and asked Lindsey what he wanted. Lindsey, who had just stuffed a blueberry mini-muffin in his mouth, mumbled "potatoes o'brien," thinking Zanik was going back for seconds, not to his office.
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This is the same story I heard, though Lindsey also said something about "Mickey Mouse pancakes," so I'm sort of interested to see how that part turns out.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Story I heard was Justin Zanik and Dennis Lindsey were at the breakfast buffet, naturally discussing personnel and contracts before officially starting their work day. Zanik got up and asked Lindsey what he wanted. Lindsey, who had just stuffed a blueberry mini-muffin in his mouth, mumbled "potatoes o'brien," thinking Zanik was going back for seconds, not to his office.
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I heard this story over at Fast Shop, brazilian version of Best Buy, and no, I was not in the parking lot! LOL
 
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