Jazz Spending to Stay Competitive

[Kyoto]

To sum it up.

The Jazz will only go into luxury tax land if it is a risk worth taking.

 

[David Stern]

The Jazz didnt trade for Bell.

Alright fine, they "acquired" Bell and Jefferson. Happy now?

 

[Zerol]

No one else wants to mention that he said the Jazz will only stay in Utah as long as Utah can support the franchise?

 

[Beantown]

Alright fine, they "acquired" Bell and Jefferson. Happy now?

Yes, my life has meaning again.

 

[David Stern]

No one else wants to mention that he said the Jazz will only stay in Utah as long as Utah can support the franchise?

That was Larry you son of a bitch.

 

[Scorpjazz]

No one else wants to mention that he said the Jazz will only stay in Utah as long as Utah can support the franchise?

Common sense. How dare he?

 

[Mambo]

 

[Hopper]

I also thought the following excerpt indicates that the Jazz are still looking hard at ways to dump some salary, with AK bein the obvious prime candidate:

"O’Connor was able to ease the tax burden with trades that sent Eric Maynor and injured forward Matt Harpring to Oklahoma City as well as Ronnie Brewer to Memphis. Both the Thunder and Grizzlies had the cap space to absorb their salaries. This summer, though, the Jazz willingly went into the tax to add Jefferson and Bell. “I think it paid dividends last year,” O’Connor said of the Jazz’s 53-win season, “and we were able to trim it down pretty good last year, and who knows this year?”

 

[VINYLONE]

Can someone paraphrase this for me? It's way too ****ing long.

The current attention span of Umerica.

Anyway, it sounds as the Jazz franchise is adhering to conservative principles when coming to the finances of the team. While I don't pay to much faith in todays CEO's, it sounds as though they've made the right decisions and are benefiting from that forward thinking. With 9 players under contract and an already committed salary of 73mil, what kind of ramifications are the Jazz looking at? What's the number of players they HAVE to carry?

 

[Hopper]

What's the number of players they HAVE to carry?

It's been awhile since I looked at this, but if I remember correctly they MUST have at least 13 players. However, if they don't carry at least 14 (the max is 15) then they must pay the salary of a 14th (at the league minimum) to the player's union, so they might as well carry 14, rather than just give the money away.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

KOC's choice of words about trimming down salary last year is pretty disheartening.

 

[Gameface]

No one else wants to mention that he said the Jazz will only stay in Utah as long as Utah can support the franchise?

In full disclosure, this was something LHM sent out to all his non-Jazz employees shortly after buying the Jazz. The message was that LHM was not going to let his ownership of the Jazz destroy the rest of his businesses, and along with it the thousands of jobs they provide.

I'll tell ya, his lack of commitment makes me sick, just sick. He should have been willing to throw his full weight into winning a championship every year, even if it cost him and all his employees their livelihoods.