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Should #47 hang from the rafters at ESA

Slightly off-topic, but I'm perfectly fine with #1 being retired. Even though he never played a minute, the franchise would not have survived without Frank Layden.

Horny, Griffith and Eaton? Yeah that's a little much but they were all fan-favorites and you look at some other small-market teams like Sacramento (Vlade Divac) Indiana (Chris Mullen) Portland (Terry Porter) San Antonio (Sean Elliot, Avery Johnson) and it doesn't seem quite as far-fetched.
 
Horny is where he belongs hanging with John and Karl, and the rest. He was a very important part of are championship runs. Horny was the final building block that propelled the Jazz to the finals. Horny was the final cog that made us contenders.
 
AKMVP said:
It was his agent who was negotiating, not AK himself. Again, it was Miller who made decision to give him that contract and nobody was holding gun to his head to do it. They could let him test free agency but they did not do it as they knew he would have gotten same contract offer from 10+ teams on the first day of free agency.
You guys need to focus not on that max contract but how max contract player who was called future and face of the Utah Jazz by O'Connor in 2004 was underutilized by team's coach starting 2007. Jazz had a chance to let him go or trade for Marion in 2007, it wasn't not AK's problem that it never happened, he actually asked to be traded, don't you all remember that? Again it was Miller who valued ( or if you want to say overvalued AK ) and made him stay and fulfill his contract with the Jazz - so why you bitter at AK? All he did since 2007 he played the way he was forced to play - as a role player (with max contract) in Sloan's 1 to 4 dominated system.
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I like AK, a lot! He is one of the funnest players to watch. He's an absolute freak. He has a physical intelligence that is hard to put a finger on, but that I think is probably unmatched in the NBA. I like AK, but don't think he is a player that meant enough to the Jazz success to retire his jersey.
 
Thee jazz fan said:
Horny is where he belongs hanging with John and Karl, and the rest. He was a very important part of are championship runs. Horny was the final building block that propelled the Jazz to the finals. Horny was the final cog that made us contenders.
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according to that logic Ostertag and Russell numbers should be there as well.
 
The Norm said:
AK's contract is probably the main reason the Jazz weren't title contenders in the Deron Williams era. So no.
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I would say Okur's and Boozers inability to defend paint and that Sloan was constantly outcoached by Phil and Popovic in playoffs is way bigger reasons then AK's contract.
 
AKMVP said:
I would say Okur's and Boozers inability to defend paint and that Sloan was constantly outcoached by Phil and Popovic in playoffs is way bigger reasons then AK's contract.
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AK is a poor man's Gordon Hayward
 
AK is a poor man's Gordon Hayward
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Ludicrous statement ! You can't be serious. I like Hayward's future as much as anyone, more than some, but to imply that he is a better player now than AK is borderline psychotic. Must of had one of Gretzky's hockey sticks up aside the head.
 
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