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Utah Jazz: Free agency looms large in '09

Plaisted..YOU ARE A MORON!

Go J.C. Best of luck in making an NBA roster this year!!!!

Ahhhh namecalling. The sure sign of a persons maturity level.

its a cougar fans way of showing scorn for being rejected.

They need to keep Boozer, Williams, probably Okur, Korver, and Price. Jason Hart did pretty much nothing this season, probably never will as long as Price keeps it up.

That's odd. I don't seem to recall Plaisted being mentioned in this article.... Perhaps the rude individual is suffering from a severe case of Plaisted anxiety or Plaisted Turrets Syndrome...

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What a waste of time this article is. It starts out basically rehashing an ESPN article. And who are these 3 (or 4) free agents? Miles and Koufos? Uhhh, whatever.....

Korver will not be a free agent. He is under contract for the next 3 seasons and won't be a free agent until 2011.

"Included in that group, as listed by ESPN.com, will be unrestricted free agents-to-be Carlos Boozer (player option), Jarron Collins, Ronnie Price and Jason Hart. On top of that, Mehmet Okur and Kyle Korver both have early termination options, the Jazz hold a team option on Kyrylo Fesenko, and Paul Millsap will be a restricted free agent"

*Keep Boozer, Price, Memo, Korver and Millsap...The rest should be dumped

@Korver: He could be a FA next year because there's an ETO (Early Termination Option) in his contract. Click on the hyperlink to ESPN in the article.

@Needless: Your comment was a waste and I wonder if you even finished reading the article. If you don't care about free agency then don't bother to read or comment about it.

According to ESPN there is an ETO for Korver in his contract. They fail to mention whether it's at the player or team option for the ETO. However, HoopsHype.com does not show that Korver has an ETO in his contract.

The jazz will do nothing this summer and fall as far as free agent pick ups. Maybe next summer when we have a bunch of guys contracts up. Nobody wants 2 or 3 of the players that have contracts expireing next year, and Deron Williams contract will eat up all the money this summer rightly so. Please Larry get someone to take via trade if you can this year Jason Hart, Jarron Collins,and sweeten the pot alittle with a draft pick thrown in. These guys are'nt even good D-league players. We don't have a chance again of getting Corey Maggette, because we have no money to offer. The Jazz again this season will be probably make it to the second round again and be done. They just don't have enough athletic big people to make that next step, and know this draft will not help them this year.

What this fails to mention is the possibility of what may happen next year.

Millsap was retained for another year so that if Boozer happens to go somewhere next year then we can then sign Millsap to a large contract and have some backups in those we picked up from the draft.

Fez is being groomed to be the main backup for Okur and if Okur decides to leave then we can bring up Kosta to take his spot.

Then the Jazz still have the main core of the group together even if ther are some changes in the startes you will still have players who have played with each other starting and still have a good bench.

My predictions:

In the strange math of salary cap trading, expiring contracts are very valuable. Jason Hart and probably Jaron Collins will get traded probably by New Years.

I doubt Korver will exercise his ETO at what he is getting paid. (I'm not sure he's even got one by the way).

My guess is Memo won't opt out. He's really overpaid for what he does. If he does, I doubt Utah will resign him for more.

Boozer will opt out and there is a 50% chance he'll resign with the team depending on how crazy the market gets. There are probably family issues as well.

@ Jargon

I see what you are saying, but if you honestly think that Boozer and Okur can leave and everything will be just fine for the Jazz even if they don't sign anybody else you are fooling yourself.

If the situation you describe actually hapens and the Jazz don't make a major free agent aquisition then you are looking at a solid 2-5 years before the Jazz are legitimate title contenders again. and that is only if the young guys develop into top shelf NBA starters, which is a HUGE "if". In all likelyhood only one or two of the Jazz young guys will ever be regular starters in the NBA.

Brewer needs to work on his shooting.

Millsap needs work on his post moves and get a mid range jumper.

CJ needs to learn how to be more consistent on both ends and he needs to get stronger.

Fes, Almond, and Kosta are all total unknowns, for all we know they could all be playing in europe in two years.

The Jazz will be legitimate title contenders again this year but I just dont see them getting it done without adding a proven PF/C, like Kurt Thomas.

hopefully okur does opt out because we can't win with a 3 point shooting center and possibly land amare stoudemire

You people and your trades and new players are nothing but fantasy world dreamers. Stoudemire or any one like him is not coming here for two resons-his present team will not let players like that leave and for those that think Kurt Thomas is a fix, you too are up in the night. But dream on I think that is what the NOW generation is all about(thats you 40 and under wonders) lifes are all about.

Let Booze and Okur walk and use the money from them leaving to get a better inside presence at center and someone to back up Millsap at PF. We're eventually going to go back to being horrible for a few years anyway so why not get it over with sooner rather than later. Booze and Okur have both proven the last 2 years that they will pull a disappearing act in the postseason. I believe in the series against San Antonio in last year's playoffs Okur was referred to as a "Petrified Puppy" by an ESPN analyst which would describe him again in this year's playoff and Booze looked out of place for the most part this year and last year in the playoffs. Keep D-Will and build around him and work with Korver on his defense and Brewer with his shooting and use them at the 2 spot and let Millsap start which is the only way he'll continue to get better and play smarter defense down low

Mike B., You're not going to improve by trading Collins and Hart for anybody. Anonymous, Okur is one of the better centers in the league; we can't give him up unless we get somebody better in return -- extremely unlikely. We need Okur until (and if) our young centers prove themselves. That will probably be two or three years at least. As for Boozer, he helps the team, but I think he hurts the Jazz, too. I would be all for trading him for a journeyman post-up player who is an excellent defender, even if he's little more than adequate as a scorer. Boozer is the weak link in the chain of defense. He has the physical skills to improve, but I wonder if he will.