O'Connor mum on Boozer talk
"I've got no comment," said O'Connor, the Jazz's senior vice president of basketball operations.
Citing unidentified "plugged-in league executives" as its sources, the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal revealed Sunday that the Jazz and Grizzlies are talking about Boozer.
While there is reason to believe the report is true, there also ample reasons to suspect that there are no substantive offers on the table for Boozer and that the Grizzlies are just one among many teams that have been talking with the Jazz about the 24-year-old Duke University product.
Boozer, in fact, has been the subject of frequent trade speculation since the 2005 NBA All-Star break less than seven months after he left Cleveland for Utah via free agency.
Talks between the Jazz and other teams evidently heated up earlier this month during the NBA pre-draft camp in Orlando with several players, not just Boozer, among the topics of discussion.
DRAFT WINDS: Add yet another name to the long list of possible picks for the Jazz at No. 14 overall in the June 28 draft.
According to a posting this week by ESPN.com draft analyst Chad Ford, Ukrainian power forward Olexsiy Pecherov "could go as high as No. 14 to the Jazz, and it's doubtful he slips below the Suns at No. 27."
Ford, however, has a different name heading to Utah in his latest mock draft updated Monday afternoon.
He now projects the Jazz will land Villanova shooting guard Randy Foye if a "plausible" scenario that Ford readily admits "goes against previous expectations" indeed unfolds. Pecherov may audition for Jazz brass in Utah sometime in the next week, but as of now he's something of a long shot to be taken at No. 14.
The Jazz have workouts scheduled Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday but have not yet announced which prospects will be coming to town.
Sunday, meanwhile, was the deadline for early entrance candidates to either remain in the draft or withdraw their names from consideration.
Among those withdrawing: shooting guard Brad Newley, who will return to his Australian team, the Townsville Crocodiles.
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