DWill_Gr8tness
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3yrs ago? Really? When exactly did Matthews first start to play for the Jazz?
Suns are looking at AK to replace Amar'e
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3yrs ago? Really? When exactly did Matthews first start to play for the Jazz?
I mentioned 30 years ago that we should started gathering assets to move up in the draft 4 years from then to get up Jordan, but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone listened to me either, I feel your pain.
Even worse, AK went PUBLIC, lobbying to get bought out of the remaining roughly $60 ****ING MILLION for $0(!) so he could go back to Russia and LHM wouldn't do it.
The trainwreck that is the Jazz cap situation was completely avoidable and foreseeably so. A small-market franchise that shrinks at most opportunities to make a big move cannot afford what they've done with Harpring (unnecessary 4th year, probably unnecessary annual salary), AK, and Memo. Anyone but the most contrarian of fools could clearly see that the two pieces the Jazz needed to keep and put emphasis on were Boozer and Williams and that they needed to find a defensive C, decent shooters at the perimeter, and/or a scoring wing for a 3rd reliable option. Instead, the only thing the franchise seemed to put any kind of emphasis on was cutting dead-weight/dead-end perimeter players (Harpring, Brewer) and dedicating $50 million to a backup and a C that is completely hopeless on D (unless guarding the one person slower than he is, one-on-one).
completely not true. You show me one place ever that AK said he wanted out of his contract for $0 to go back to Russia.
Hopper
Banned
He said it. Probably didn't really mean it, but still.... I don't recalls just where and when right now, but it's onna net somewheres, no doubt.
I knows, cause I had some long-*** arguments with peoples who said it would be stupid to do that. I said it would be stupid not to. AK finally earned my respect when he said that. Wish I could say the same about some of his homer fanboyz, who thought he had every right to sabatoge the team if he didn't git his way.
InGameStrategy
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Offensively, anyway.
Well, that part was out of Utah's control, and Portland was just being a punk because they have deep pockets.
Hopper he did say that if the Jazz wanted to buy him out of his contract so he could go back to Russia that he would be willing to talk about it. But He never said he would do it for nothing. He said buy out. Meaning the Jazz would still have spent a bunch of money to let him go back to Russia with no compinsation. And at the time they could have still gotten something for him. Why they didn't is the part that irritates me.
Hopper
Banned
That aint what I recalls, Ben. He said he would do it for nuthin. Just calls it even.
I must have missed that part then Hopper because I don't remember it coming across that way. And where this came from was an interview he did over in europe that was translated to english. When AK came back he said that there were quite a few things that were miss quoted in there. But even then I cant remember him saying he would leave for nothing.
Hopper
Banned
Well, Ben, of course he could have been misquoted, that I dunno. And, like I suggested the first time, I'm sure that his tune changed after his agent got involved. Mebbe I'll look around and see what I can find on the topic.
Well here is the D-News version of it. Again don't see anything that said he would just leave the money.
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695211875,00.html
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695211875,00.html
Hopper
Banned
Well, I came across this, which indicates he wasn't asking for money:
"Andrei Kirilenko is so prepared to leave the Utah Jazz, he's willing to forsake the remaining $63 million of his contract to play overseas....He says he would like to play in Russia, although as long as he is under contract with Utah, that cannot happen as NBA and FIBA teams must honor each other's contracts."
https://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3029816