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The Jazz are trading D-Will to New Jersey!?

Borat said:
Giving a true superstar first NBA elite young PG for players/picks in the range of Gordan Hayward (plus Devin Harris) is as much as rape as any trade in NBA history, perhaps with the exception of Gasol. And it's not like our hand was even forced, like Denver's was. We just took up our behinds because we wanted it that way.
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D-Will has never been first team All-NBA. And how do you know that the pick is going to be #9? It's unprotected. And way to totally forget about Favors.
 
Hi Everyone -

Leonard here. Longtime reader, first time poster. Been living out in San Francisco since college, but still a Jazz superfan. Now, such big news this morning, felt inclined to register and drop in my two cents:

I like the trade. I think being a Jazz fan can spoil a lot of people, and they lose sight as to how marginal and complacent many NBA teams are. There is no worse place to be in this league than an aging, mediocore team that's hovering around an 8th or 9th seed, and has clearly seen it's best days. This incarnation of the Jazz had run it's course, we had some good days, but it's gone from Western Conference Championship to second round exit to being swept to the slow trainwreck of this season....

Deron Williams wasn't going to stay, and the league knew it. Leverage was slipping away and the Jazz faced the very real (and I feel likely) possibility of having him leave for nothing. Do you hang on and hope for the best? Sure, if it's LeBron James. Not it's a borderline allstar on a team falling apart with a best case scenario of a 7th seed.

I like the trade. New era.
 
Since December, being a Jazz fan has felt like watching a loved one slowly lose their mind.

I understand why this was done, and that it MAY turn out good, but right now it just sucks.
 
VINYLONE said:
I dont know man. It depends on what the Nets get done in the next year or so...That owner wants to spend money.
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Utah has spent a bunch of money recently and we may as well have pissed into the wind for all the good it has done. The Jazz weren't going anywhere, and frankly, as good as Dwill was on the court, he was nearly as destructive off of it if the reports are true. I have to believe that he was a locker room cancer if KOC make this move.
 
and I am the only one who finds it ironic that AK is not going to the Russian owner? Isn't that what everyone was thinking would happen when Prokorov (sp???) bought the team?
 
Headtrip said:
Our own pick is top 15 protected, so we will almost certainly get to use it this year. The two picks combined could be valuable.
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**** this draft. We're going to get two lottery picks in what will be the closest thing to the 2000 draft.
 
billyshelby said:
Tyler Honeycutt! I feel better already!
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Am I wrong? UCLA kids translate in the NBA because of great coaching there with the emphasis on hustle and defense. This kid has the hustle and has a great frame, albeit thin, a great shooting stroke, and a great overall offensive game. I called it on Batum and I'm calling it on this kid. My goal: Irving and Honeycutt out of this draft.
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
Not at six but later in the draft, Tyler Honeycutt intrigues me. Ucla is all about defense and the kid's a 6'8" wing who sounds like he has a very good combo of attributes.

https://www.nbadraft.net/players/tyler-honeycutt
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these guys have Barnes sitting there at 6th. i don't watch college basketball, but i do remember last summer, right after the draft, the guy was projected as this year's number one.
 
Marty McFly said:
D-Will has never been first team All-NBA. And how do you know that the pick is going to be #9? It's unprotected. And way to totally forget about Favors.
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It's easy to forget about a guy that's quietly been doing his best Chris Wilcox impersonation all season.
 
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