Good Luck to Dee Brown. He is a class act on and off the court!

Dee, rock them at the nation's capitol!!! I expect you to be hitting solid minutes by the end of this upcoming season, after your coaches see that you truly are the bomb. Good luck in DC, and God Bless.

No one's convinced me as to why we let Dee go in
the first place. Hart certainly hasn't been as effective. Price is athletic and has a better shot, but Dee would have been a better 2nd or 3rd option than Hart. Good luck Dee!

Since Orlando has too many shooting guards and only one true point guard, the Jazz need to look at a possible trade with the Magic. Utah has plenty of point guards and could look to improve their depth at shooting guard.

Jimmy wouldn't trade Boozer for Wallace and May, but how about this trade with Charlotte:

Utah Trades:
Boozer (11.5m)
Collins (2.0m)
Hart (2.5m)

Charlotte sign and trades:
Okafor (10m, 10.5m, 11m, 11.5m, 12m)
Morrison (4.1m, 5.2m)

The Jazz give up the best player in the deal, but they get a suitable replacement in Okafor (and one that plays D). Since Boozer may bolt after this year it might be best to get something for him now. Also this opens up some playing time and future salary cap space to for Milsap.

Morrison is coming off a knee injury but has potential and probably at the very least can be a younger version of Matt Harpring.

I really think I would rather have Dee Brown as a point guard than Jason Hart. It seems like last year Hart didn't do much when on the floor. With Brown still a young kid and him being able to grow under Deron Williams, it would seem only natural to want him here. If I remember right he played with Williams in college. I think we could get him for pretty cheap.

Now watch the Delta Center crowd boo him lustfully. I hope I'm wrong.

Jazz should have never let Dee Brown go. He's better than Hart and Price anyways. Those 2 are horrible.

the Jazz are trading Boozer for Okafor and Morrison. This is top secret the other trade is a rumor to act as a smoke screen

I read about the Jazz not matching the offer in the Washington Post TWO DAYS AGO!

Maybe we can get Dee down the line

Before all you Dee Brown worshipers start complaining about the direction of Jazz Management. Remember Dee Brown was and would be the Jazz's 3rd PG he didn't make a basket, lay up or from the field in his first 3 months of his NBA career, he averaged less than 2 points and 2 assists per game. Not a big loss.

I'm not a big fan of the trade proposal in this article. I liked May in college but he's been injured his whole time in the NBA and Wallace is very small for a 4. If this rumor is true the Jazz must be very afraid that Booz is leaving next year.

That being said if the Jazz are going to make a trade this is the type of value they will get for Booz as no one wants to trade like value for a guy who's going to be there one year.

I do like the Okafor for Boozer trade rumor. I think that would be a good fit for the Jazz and Charlotte. Okafor's scoring would improve his rebounding is already there and the Jazz's interior defense would be much better. Okafor's biggest weekness is his FT shooting.

Boozer, Collins and Hart for Okafor and Morrison or May. Shove Collins and Hart down their throat if they want Booze. Win Win for both teams. Also just sign D-will for whatever length of time he wants, just hold the line and don't do it for MAX money, he understands cap and luxury tax, plus need of other players needing to be signed I'm sure. As far as him dictating anything else the team wants to do tell him to take a hike, just sign the contract and leave the teams decision making up to management. Young players have no business demanding to be a part of management decision making. End of story.

Man i would trade for wallace and may in a second!!! you get an high flying athletic, SHOTBLOCKING player in wallace and you get a player with alot of upside in may if he can stay healthy. May has the same body type as boozer, but hey boozer also was plagued by injuries early in his career but came out nice. And i am pissed at the jazz for signing a top 5 WORST fa in franchise history in jason hart instead of keeping d wills best friend and dee brown is on the rise in his career while jason hart is in the ride (of the bench) of his career.

I think this trade with Charlotte would be great.Why not move Kirilenko to the four spot and let Wallace play three.The coaches have always said that Kirilenko is more suited at the four position.Williams,Brewer,Wallace,Kirilenko,and Okur is a solid starting five.This also would open the door for more minutes for Millsap.Anybody out there agree?

I don't want May from the Bobcats, I want Okafor. Best of luck to Dee

I was thinking we need to get something for boozer. He has already basically said he is leaving.

But then I had a thought. If he opts out of his contract next year, he will have to play at least as good if not better next season to demand the money he will be looking for. There is risk in opting out for him too. I predict a pretty productive season for him. Really its kind of a no brainer.

Bottom line next year is very important for both the Jazz and Boozer. Hopefully they pull off that over the top trade they have said they are willing to make. Now is the time.

GO JAZZ !!!!!!!!

dee we miss you buddy good luck in dc maybe they will give you a chance to show off your talents instead of releasing you so we can pick up a horrible back up point gaurd and pay him 2 million to ride our bench!

How about this? Don't trade anybody this season.

RE: MR TicketHolder:
Better read the story again. Dee left the room to play video games. Why did the Jazz keep Brewer, Williams and Millsap then??? They were involved in it too. The woman stayed in Brewers room and undressed in his room and he built a dividing wall. That is also the problem with you JAZZ fans you cannot forgive.

Boozer and Williams are on the next train leaving town.BYE!

We don't want dee brown! We already have 3 point gaurds but only 2 of them are useful to use. dee brown sucks! When he was here he scored like 3 points a game. Plus he needs to control his tempo. He kept getting turnovers and he lost it out of bounds here in Utah

To bad is just rumor. With Wallace and AK in starting lineup Jazz would improve so much defnesively that nobody would even miss few extra points Boozer was giving us. With Dwill's passing I do not think we would miss any points at all in fact. Didn't we sored 120 vs Lakers without Boozer, and never matched that with him? And what score is better 110-112 or 99-77?

Jimmy, the trade Booze for Okafor makes sense I like it!

Jazzfan4ever1, I couldnt agree more. Boozer is out of here.

Booze is a great player and most NBA analysts will say his is in the top 4 power forwards in the game today. Therefore he will have some good trade value, that is until he walks free.

At the very least, I hope the jazz are trying to make a deal in moving him him right now! They may not find anything and if thats the case we are better just keeping him. All I ask is that they try.

The fact is we need to move either Okur or Booze. Does anybody actually believe that we can beat the spurs, Lakers, or Portland (yes portland-top 5 in the west) next year with our current roster? It was not bad luck, or poor officiating. It was purely a matchup problem. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. It is apparent there are a lot of jazz fans that wish to be insane next year.

Adam Morrison, "a younger version of Matt Harping"? You have got to be kidding! Morrison plays zero defense. That and the fact that his shooting percentage has bombed in the pros makes him more along the lines of Hart than Harpring. Many in the Charlotte franchise are convinced that he can't make it in the NBA. Just what the Jazz need. As for Boozer, we have seen the recent surge of players opting out of contacts. Boozer will opt out. If Elton Brand can opt out and get a HUGE contract after only playing in 8 games, I doubt if Booz will have to have a monster year to get a pay raise, and another team will give him the big contact.

holy crap ADAM MORRISON IS A YOUNGER VERSION OF HARPRING? the only similarity is that both are white and both play basketball. harpring is one of the top 5 players you hate to play against, and morrison is the absolute worst defensive and rebounding player that has come along in the last 20 years.

I thought everyone was crazy to want to trade Booz and AK but the more i think about it the more i think it will be better in the long run. So here is what sounds best to me. Trade Booz and Collins and Hart to Charlotte for Okafor and Wallace. Then (not sure if this would fly????) trade AK to Chicago for Gordon. Gordon and Okafor were awesome together at Uconn plus with willams and wallace and a solid bench you have NBA title!!

Start: Bench:
Deron Willams Price
Ben Gordon Brewer
Gerald Wallace Korver/Harpring
Emeka Okafor Milsap
Mehmet Okur Fesenko/koufos

I love the Boozer Okafor Deal but I think the only way it could happen is if Charolette thought they had a chance of locking Boozer up long term, otherwise the deal carries alot of risk for them. The problem with the Jazz situation is that if they let Boozer walk and resign Okur they are still going to be over the cap so they can't be a real player in the free agent market. On the other hand, Charolette doesn't have that problem so if Boozer decided to walk they would have loads cap space and lots of free agents to choose from.

Adam Morrison = Team Cancer

People want to trade Boozer for Okafor and Wallace? I don't want to say you people are stupid, but you people are stupid.

And people who think Dee Brown is better than Price? See above comment.

Okafor is better than Okur, and Wallace is better than AK and Brewer (IMO). Hmm. Upgrade two positions by trading Boozer. I would say a lineup of Okur, Okafor, AK, Wallace, and Williams would be far from stupid!!! The Jazz need to make some moves to seriously contend for a title. Virtually every other team in the west is getting better, and are just as young for the most part. Standing pat probably won't win a championship, or even guarantee a playoff spot. Teams win with defense, and this team doesn't have enough. Millsap has shown that he can score 20 a night when he gets starts. Pencil virtually any player in at the 4 under Sloan's system and they can do what Boozer does, plus show a little more defensive effort (hopefully!). Boozer is too unpredictable with injuries and effort to be counted on, plus he WILL opt out of his contract. Granted, Okafor is no Cal Ripken, but his health is no more of a problem than Boozer's medical history.

o hello jazz fans its so sad to see your your player leave. you could have used his .000005 points a game especially since dwill, korver, and okur missed 3 wide open three pointers in game 6 that was funny.

predictions for next year in the WeSt
1. lakers (72-10)
2. nuggets (62-20)
3. mavs (60-22)
4. houston (59-23)
5. spurs (54-28)
6. clippers (50-32)
7. PHX "shaq" (43-39)
8. chris paul (42-40)
-losers-
9. blazers (41-41)
10. warriors (40-42)
11. kings(40-42)
12. OKC (39-43)
13. memphis (37-45)
14. Twolves (35-47)
15. jazz (30-52)

-good luck d brown your amazing

GO LAKER$

What is it with you people? Dee Brown was not that good of a PG. Yes he was quick blah blah blah but he was a TERRIBLE outside shooter. We don't need another one of those. We already have Brewer.

Price is essentially a taller version of Dee Brown except he can make shots, spread the floor, and dunk like a fool!!! He is twice the athlete Brown is.

That said I wish Dee the best--seemed like a decent guy but I also heard they cut him to get rid of the influence on D-Will. Don't know if it is true or not.

how is mr miller doing. anyone know. hope his health is going to be ok. they should bring over the 44th pick and see if they can fatten him up, he is supposed to be another gasol.

Wallace can't shoot. He scores by driving, but doesn't shoot well from outside. Is he an upgrade over Brewer? Maybe by a little, but it wouldn't justify the contract difference.

Okafor is a crybaby. And he is limited offensively. He's a good player but not in Boozer's class.

Those of you bashing on Morrison haven't followed much other than headlines or sound bites. If he makes the transition to the NBA he has tremendous upside potential. His competitiveness and basketball instincts are tremendous. He has yet to prove himself, but remember he just missed his entire second season with an injury. Reports are that he has worked hard at rehab and is maturing. It would be fun to see him on the Jazz, but I think his best game (like Kirilenko's) is free form, and that doesn't work so well in Sloan's system. He would also need to show commitment to defense, but if Jeff Hornacek can play defense for the Jazz, so can Adam Morrison.

Boozer going to Charlotte and staying there is conceivable, as he played his college ball nearby at Duke.

Re: lakers 4- jazz 2

Your predictions for what's going to happen next season are laughable.

The only way the Jazz lose 52 games is if Okur, Boozer and Kirilenko are lost to season ending injuries (not likely).

Even if that happens, coach Sloan would take our scrubs and still win 35 games. Most NBA coaches wouldn't even bother trying. They would just let the team tank ... but not Jerry.

I see you listed LA finishing first. That's probably going to happen, at least for one more year. But I don't see LA winning 72 games. Too many people will be gunning for them, 60 to 65 games is more like it.

I hope LA enjoys its semi-dominance while it lasts, the season after next, it will end.

wow clippers making playoffs!! thats silly. jazz will be the number 3 spot and how dare you think that the lakers will lose ten games!!! wow those are some bold statements

you honestly think the nuggets and lakers will win 60+ games think again. the jazz will definitley take care of bussines next year good luck d brown and GO JAZZ

MY PRED. JAZZ (59-23)
most likely 2 or 3 seed in west and most importantely home court

IS GONE. IF THEY CAN'T GET A DEAL TOGETHER BY NOW THEY WON'T. HE'S JUST POSTURING SO HE CAN CLAIM HE HAD A "DIFFERENT VISION OF WHERE THE TEAM SHOULD GO" WHEN IN REALITY HE, LIKE BOOZER, LIKE OKUR, LIKE AK, HE WANT'S OUT OF SLC.

WHY ARE YOU YELLING?

I guess it's possible D-Will is just posturing so he can pretend he tried to get a deal done. Not likely, though.

If the Jazz front office people are smart--and I think they are--they'll sign Williams on for whatever he wants. WHATEVER he wants.

As for trades, it's fun to speculate, and I like the thought of that perfect trade that would put the Jazz over the top, give them that one little spark they're missing, but it's still possible that one of the young guys--Fes, Koufos, or more likely Brewer or Almond or Millsap--might have it. It wouldn't take much. They've all got great potential, and Brewer and Millsap are showing that they mean business.

Maybe staying with what we've got wouldn't be such a bad thing.

The Jazz had that spark to get over the hump. It went by the name Ronny Siekly. I'm 100% certain that had he come to Utah back in the day the Jazz would have won it all. Now Utah is saddled with the idea that even someone like him wouldn't come here. As such, the Jazz are destined to be the bridesmaids of the league and Deron knows it. Which is why he'll leave asap. SAD, But true