Jazz To sign William Howard

[Coach Ellis]

Isn't that what the Warriors did with that Smailagic "aka" the next Jokic?

Nah. Alen Smailagic was most likely on a select contract. No NBA team call ups, and they don’t own his NBA rights until they draft him in the NBA draft (like they did). I liked him a lot. Would’ve tried to poach him.

“The NBA G League announced a Select Contract as part of a comprehensive professional path that will be available, beginning with the 2019-20 season, to elite prospects who are eligible to play in the NBA G League but not yet eligible for the NBA. The contracts, which will include robust programmatic opportunities for development, are for elite players who are at least 18 years old and will pay $125,000 for the five-month season.”

 

[Watcher]

Take with a pinch of salt since this is nowhere near 100% reliable but a French user on reddit is saying Howard's contract is 1 year and it's not guaranteed. If this is correct, Howard is very far from certain to stick. He probably will fight for a roster spot in pre-season training camp.

Why would they negotiate and pay a buyout to sign someone to a non-guaranteed contract? I'm guessing the pinch of salt advice is good here.

 

[RJF]

I'm fairly sure his D leaves nothing to complain about. For that matter, his D is probably more than adequate for the job to leave folks without complaint.

Ahh, got to love innuendo.

In-your-end-o?

 

[stitches]

Why would they negotiate and pay a buyout to sign someone to a non-guaranteed contract? I'm guessing the pinch of salt advice is good here.

Because they like him as a camp competition guy and they think the competition is worth the buy out. It's not a huge buy out either. It's about the number we pay for camp invitees' bonuses.

 

[mongoose01]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

NBA scouts are everywhere. It is tough for legitimate NBA talent to fall through the cracks. I'm hoping for somewhere between Niang and ONeal. If I'm feeling crazy, somewhere between ONeal and Ingles the last year of his contract.

Wouldn’t being picked up by an nba team indicate he isn’t falling through the cracks? I’m interested to see what he is signed to and what his contract looks like. If he’s signed wouldn’t that indicate he didn’t slip through the cracks?


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[Handlogten's Heros]

Because they like him as a camp competition guy and they think the competition is worth the buy out. It's not a huge buy out either. It's about the number we pay for camp invitees' bonuses.

Thank you... that's good insight. Sounds like Larsens is saying it isn't a lock for him to make the roster either. They will bring in others to compete for that spot and I'm sure they will monitor the waiver wire as rosters are cut down coming in to the regular season.

He is still interesting to me.

 

[jjscap]

Looks like they're pretty high on this dude.
Kind of an unusual deal. There must be a back story behind this, perhaps similar to GSW's Smailagic signing.

 

[infection]

Why would they negotiate and pay a buyout to sign someone to a non-guaranteed contract? I'm guessing the pinch of salt advice is good here.

The same reason they would buy second round draft picks and not sign them. I don’t know.

 

[stitches]

The same reason they would buy second round draft picks and not sign them. I don’t know.

Increasing competition for camp and increasing the chance of landing a cheap rotation piece for a team that will be operating over the cap going forward is a good strategy and is worth paying some money for. At least that's what I assume their reasoning is.

 

[infection]

Increasing competition for camp and increasing the chance of landing a cheap rotation piece for a team that will be operating over the cap going forward is a good strategy and is worth paying some money for.

$1M for? I dunno. We were selling off second rounders for $500k and I thought it was silly. Now apparently it makes sense to dump a “pittance” of a cool million to look at someone in summer league.

 

[NUMBERICA]

I’d rather us go this route with our 12-15 guys. Get guys that are likely good enough to play a small role and have upside to be valuable contributors... rather than just finding re-tread washed vets that have no future value.

Salary ballast (vet minimum on a high-tenure player is significant).

Danilo Gallinari, Andre Iguodala, whoever else that is really good on a team playing for nothing (Eric Gordon if Orlando somehow faceplants?).

I’m also not sure where these guys are getting minutes, but obviously if anyone of these guys hits (a la Royce or Ingles), it’s a home-run.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Salary ballast (vet minimum on a high-tenure player is significant).

Danilo Gallinari, Andre Iguodala, whoever else that is really good on a team playing for nothing (Eric Gordon if Orlando somehow faceplants?).

I’m also not sure where these guys are getting minutes, but obviously if anyone of these guys hits (a la Royce or Ingles), it’s a home-run.

I'd rather make the long term play and hope one of these three guys become a cheap contributor. Maybe not even as big as Royce... more along the lines of a healthy Neto maybe. I don't know that we have another big move planned. I'd rather have the long term value that one of these guys could bring and I'm not sure we can nab a Livingston and just sit them every night and have them be happy about that.

Even if one of these guys flashes when we have an injury it could really help us in trades because they'd have some value. We don't have the draft capital to really sweeten a deal right now.

This is one area the Jazz have consistently done really well on... and I am not going to question their talent evaluation. There would be no issue cutting any three of these guys if something good came on the waiver wire. Already over the cap... likely these deals are limited on guaranteed money for 2020 (maybe 2019 too).