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No Extension for Walker Kessler?

Tony Jones said:
I think the Jazz want to be the most competitive 20 win team in NBA history and draft either Boozer, AJ, or Darryn Peterson
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Will any of them be available at 5 or 6, where we will end up inevitably in the draft?
 
KqWIN said:
I don’t know if it’s 1/4, but he definitely lost of value just by simply being a starter level player on low money. It’s like the Jazz are burning up all the winning value from him as possible and waiting for the last second….which is strange because that entire time the Jazz are trying to tank.

One of the things I regurgitated way too many times is that even though I didn’t “want” to trade Kessler, he probably meant more to another team more than us. We don’t seem extraordinarily high on him or anything (unless you count the non trade as evidence) and the immediate winning value is a net negative for us where it could have really made a difference in a winning team. Unless they really had an exceptional view of him as a prospect, I could see how a trade would make sense.

Situation hasn’t come to a conclusion yet, but it does seem like that the Jazz either have no plan, a bad plan, or a poorly executed one. The timing of trades/moves has been really poor post Rudy/Don.
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That's kind of where I am at. I can speculate on their reasoning here but the first goal since Walker is still on the roster is to lock him into the most team friendly deal we can long term. The cap space thing makes me giggle a bit. We will have Lauri and Walker on long term deals and then rookie deals (which can easily be moved to create more financial flexibility).

Next year's FA market is not last summer's FA market. This isn't a new normal. Teams with space will say eff it and overpay still... just hope they don't do it with Walker I guess.

Still think there is a decent chance this is some smoke to maybe motivate Walker to come down on price a bit maybe. We will see.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I understand having more space but like... lots of teams have space. There aren't a ton of FAs... and not like we are a huge FA market. Maybe its to keep him trade eligible. Its curious to me.
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Dunno, I'm always skeptical of Utah Jazz and FA market.

But maybe cap space in that sense could help the Jazz trade some player(s) into cap space and then later sign Kessler going over the cap ?

Still feels a strange plan to me.
 
It's natural to be skeptical of the Jazz being players in Free Agency because we have 50 years of history to suggest that we never have been. However, with all of the new cap rules, we are finding out that teams are no longer able to go out and buy whoever they want. With the hard cap and luxury tax payments, it's just not feasible or possible for players to only go to the big market teams. I think you'll see that the teams who are smart with the contracts they hand out are going to be able to get players who might not have been gettable previously just because they're the only ones with real money to spend.
 
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