To lazy to look it up. not if we trade with a team under the salary cap. not sure how many there are, but there are a few I believe. See last years trades. We dumped salary last year when we were a better team, so what makes you think we will not this year?
You are right, the Jazz were better last year, but do you really think that the FO planned on: Okur being out so much this year, losing Matthews, Korver and Boozer as well as Sloan stepping down? It has kind of been a perfect storm that has really hampered this season. Do you really think that the Jazz should thin their bench even more just to save a few million? I agreed with the Brewer trade at the time (doesn't necessarily look good now, though), but the Harpring/Maynor trade was tough.
The Jazz need to hold on to all the young/cheap assets they have because (I believe) the Jazz will have to pretty much be right on every player transaction they do under the new CBA if they want to truly compete for a title.