Would Wiggens stay with the Jazz long term?
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Beantown
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How is it not a fair question?
If you have fairly comparable players to choose from would you not choose the player that has a higher chance of staying with your team long term?
How is that a dumb question?
Who is to say that Parker would stay in Utah? Just because he is Mormon does mean he wants to stay in Utah. He didn't choose BYU and he is from Chicago so there is no guarantee he stays. Wiggins would be here for four years playing with a very talented and young team, the Jazz would be contenders and he would be the star of the team. Sorry I can't see why he would want to go to LA next year because they are going to suck. I think it is time for Utah fans to get over the no one wants to play in Utah so we need to get rid of them or not draft them.
As long as the Jazz are perennial contenders and doing everything they can to get to the Finals each year, I think he'd stay.
Players like Lebron, Wade and Dwight are now showing that it's about winning championships, not about playing in New York or LA.
The Jazz are in a good position to keep an elite player at the wing if Favors, Burke and Hayward pan out to give that player a strong supporting cast. In other words, they're building in the right sequence.
The Jazz are doing the right thing to lay the foundation of a good team with the young players we have now, so when a big star comes in, he's not alone.
Players like Lebron, Wade and Dwight are now showing that it's about winning championships, not about playing in New York or LA.
The Jazz are in a good position to keep an elite player at the wing if Favors, Burke and Hayward pan out to give that player a strong supporting cast. In other words, they're building in the right sequence.
The Jazz are doing the right thing to lay the foundation of a good team with the young players we have now, so when a big star comes in, he's not alone.
Beantown
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I agree, its nothing against the states per say but more about marketability and winning. LeBron spends plenty of time in Ohio and Deron is in Utah often.
But Utah was successful and Deron wasn't staying. The Cavs were successful and LeBron didn't stay. CP3 only wanted to go to LA or NYC.
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And BTW, the Cavs did a bad job building around Lebron. Their only homegrown player that they got that was really any good bolted to Utah because the owner was shady and they hired a coach that had no interest in holding Lebron accountable for anything (their "offense" was Lebron doing whatever he wanted, didn't challenge him to grow his skillset beyond what he came in with, and let him be a mediocre defender). The best player that Lebron played with while he was there was, what, Mo Williams? Shaq was WAYYY over-the-hill and a bad fit, and Jamison was also over-the-hill and too little too late. And what did he get them besides years of undeserved success that no one else in that draft could've dreamed of? Well, exactly that, but nothing more, because they didn't deserve it.
Players will stay if they think their best chance to win is where they're at. If the Jazz are so miraculously fortunate to have the first pick of the draft next year, their job is first to draft BPA and second to field a team that is impossible to walk from. If worrying about if that player will leave in 7 years affects their decision, then they don't deserve to be in the NBA.
Players will stay if they think their best chance to win is where they're at. If the Jazz are so miraculously fortunate to have the first pick of the draft next year, their job is first to draft BPA and second to field a team that is impossible to walk from. If worrying about if that player will leave in 7 years affects their decision, then they don't deserve to be in the NBA.