Okay, I will retell the story as remember. At the 2011 draft party.
The night of 2011 draft, after the Jazz were finished drafting a jazz reporter (bowler or Alema, or Steve Brown) interviewing Hornacek asked him one of those standard canned questions something like, " did the draft go like you predicted, were there any surprises?"
Jeff should have said, "No surprises it fell just like we thought it would, and we are happy with the players we were able to draft."
But Jeff didn't, he said, " yes, I was really surprised that Kawai Leonard was still available." But he didn't stop there, he went on, and although I don't remember his exact words, his message was unmistakable Jeff wanted the Jazzto draft Kawai instead of Alec Butks.
A few moments later the same reporter was interviewing KOC. They asked the same standard questions, then said, "when you got to 10 did you consider drafting Kawai?
KOC, irritated but controlled said no, we were happy with Alec burks
The reporter continued, was there any discussion about Leonard, because Jeff Hornaceck said he thought the Jazz should have drafted Leonard.
KOC turned a lovely shade of red, and said, " he did, did he? well I'll have to have a talk with Jeff about how we keep differences of opinions to ourselves, and not betray our team"
KOC was visibly pissed.
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