The 2017 off-season...Hayward, Hill, Ingles...?

[QUOTE]Atlanta Hawks All-Star forward Paul Millsap has opted out of his $21.4 million contract for next season to become a free agent, league sources told The Vertical. – via Yahoo! Sports

Bobby Marks: Paul Millsap will have a $30.1m hold against the Hawks cap. Millsap has bird rights and ATL can sign him to the max ($35.3m). – via Twitter BobbyMarks42[/QUOTE]

Time to bring him back home where he belongs! Sign him first than you can bring in Hill and Hayward. Tax paying the right way! Teamed with Rudy they become at least the 3rd best team in the league. If they don't get him maybe Griffin if the Clipps are looking to make changes?

[QUOTE]Jeff Goodman: The younger Kanter (Kerem Kanter) also told ESPN he is happy and relieved that his brother, Enes, is safe and back in the United States.

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[QUOTE]Lyles apparently was told during his exit interview that his minutes were slashed due to the additions of Johnson and Diaw.

"They went with the older guys because they felt like they could do something with them as far as making a run," Lyles said, relaying his conversation with Snyder and general manager Dennis Lindsey.[/QUOTE]

Could have made a run last year. He shouldn't have been ahead of Withey especially at the first of the year. This year they gave him every opportunity to play and he failed. It was his play that landed him on the bench. They want him in the rotation. Now he has Bolomboy on his heels and more young guns on their way. This is the NBA. You have to produce or someone will replace you no matter where you are drafted. Why no D-league once he was benched?

[QUOTE]Next season, however, Lyles very well could be needed.[/QUOTE]

He is needed. He's got the skill set to fit in offensively if he figures out it's a 5 man game and he's not Kobe. Needs to get in shape and use his size and length to defend and hit the boards. Get in prime shape and shoot a bunch of shots!

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[QUOTE]Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz
Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors
Kawhi Leonard, Houston Rockets

Gobert goes 1-of-2 for the night. And yes, he deserves this statue over Green and Leonard. The Jazz big man was a monster in the middle this year and led the league in basically every defensive statistical category. And he did it all without his wingman Derrick Favors, who sat out much of the season with a knee injury.

Who Deserves to Win: Gobert

Who Will Win: Green[/QUOTE]

probably Green and it's hard to dispute after watching him destroy the Jazz

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Not the face

[QUOTE]2017-18 salary cap space (with projected $102 million cap)

$31.3 million. (Eight players with $65.7 million in guaranteed contracts, four draft picks worth $4.6 million). Doesn

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[QUOTE]In addition to Teodosic

Utah

Kentucky

[url]http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865680480/Analysis-Big-summer-ahead-for-Jazz-forward-Trey-Lyles.html[/url]

[QUOTE]“This offseason is gonna be big for me in terms of continuing to get better, continuing to be more consistent, I think, in certain areas, and just taking ownership of everything,” he said.

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Asked what he’d like to focus on, Lyles referred to three areas: (1) hitting corner threes, (2) making reads on the court and (3) increasing his upper body strength.[/QUOTE]

Everything is a good place to start. Making reads like passing to someone else occasionally? He never got to the corner to shoot 3's. Needs to get into shape

If it's true he may bot be traded because Bolomboy has moved past him

[QUOTE]Ideally, Lyles would generate a stronger gravitational pull on opposing defenses, creating space for wings to drive and bigs to dive.[/QUOTE]

Got to hit shots and show you will pass as well

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[QUOTE] I like the connection with he and Quin having been together at CSKA Moscow. I think that's the driving force behind the rumors.[/QUOTE]

The driving force is he said he wanted to play for the Jazz or SA and it was rumored SA didn't want him but a more recent rumor said otherwise

[QUOTE]I'm really just hoping that the Jazz sign a mid-level point guard and that he and Exum split time next year. I just think George Hill is too expensive and would further complicate an already tight cap situation.[/QUOTE]

Why would anyone hope for this? The Jazz basically had two guys going against GS. Hill looked like that 3rd guy in September. Maybe they can get Millsap or Griffin as that 3rd guy but they don't grow on trees. And if they are really ready to pay tax they could get a 4th guy. Exum has yet to prove he belongs in a rotation and this Moscow guy sounds like a bench player not a starter.

[QUOTE]Well this pretty much confirms that George Hill is gone. [/QUOTE]

It does? Says to me they would want this guy as Hill's back-up and the Dante fans will have to deal with him being at best a sg.

[QUOTE] Vlade is so enamored with Buddy Hield that I don't think they're going to bring in another alpha PG. [/QUOTE]

Isn't Hield a sg?

[QUOTE]Toronto The Dinos are in the same boat as the Jazz, as they would be stupid not to shop for a new PG with Lowry's impending free agency. Not gonna lie, Toronto is probably an attractive fit.[/QUOTE]

Lowry's back-up?

[QUOTE]Atlanta Does this mean the end of the Dennis Schr

[url]http://purpleandblues.com/2017/05/23/worth-gsws-smallest-margin-victory-came-utah-jazz/[/url]

[QUOTE]In the case of the Utah Jazz, they can find one such moral victory in noting that they held Golden State to the smallest average margin of victory of any of their Western Conference playoff foes.[/QUOTE]

:wtf:

[QUOTE]San Antonio most certainly has the most plausible

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[QUOTE]A big reason why I liked that squad so much was because it featured Deron Williams playing at full force (he averaged a whopping 24.3 points in those playoffs), Paul Millsap who was clearly emerging as the future number one option at power forward as he averaged 18 points per game, just under Carlos Boozer

[url]http://purpleandblues.com/2017/05/22/utes-standout-kyle-kuzma-draft-possibility-utah-jazz/[/url]

[QUOTE]The Jazz are currently stocked at the power forward position with Derrick Favors and Trey Lyles both under contract for next season, while the team also holds the option on the final year of Boris Diaw

[QUOTE]ASM SPORTS‏: ASM client @Mospeights16 has officially opted out of his contract with the @LAClippers

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[QUOTE]The Blazers have firepower, but lack size. [/QUOTE]

Have to be able to defend size or not. Two smaller guards doing the same things isn't great either

[QUOTE]The Spurs may be losing legend Manu Ginobili to retirement and will need Pau Gasol to opt out of his contract to have any hope of retooling their roster financially.[/QUOTE]

It's the Spurs. They'll just keep winning

[QUOTE]the Jazz are going to be fighting tooth and nail to retain Gordon Hayward when free agency opens in July.[/QUOTE]

Maybe? Van Gundy says he's already decided

[QUOTE] the Houston Rockets need help around James Harden[/QUOTE]

Defense. The Warriors play great D and score. There's a difference between them and other high scoring teams

[QUOTE]the Memphis Grizzlies may be forced to reimagine their image.[/QUOTE]

Going to be hard. Need Parsons to get healthy and contribute

[QUOTE]the Jazz are loaded with expiring contracts that they can look to move this offseason or let expire going into the summer of 2018 for added free-agent flexibility. Between Joe Johnson, Derrick Favors and Boris Diaw, the Jazz could shed close to $30 million in contracts next year.[/QUOTE]

First I've seen of someone saying to possibly trade Joe! After his performance against the Warriors you have to. Thank you for the Clipper series. You will always be part of Jazz playoff lore. Good bye. That's what the great teams can do and has always been a problem in Utah where they like to keep their guys too long

[QUOTE]Behind the Warriors, only the Rockets and Spurs appear as close to competing for a championship as the Jazz in the West[/QUOTE]

Don't see the Rockets in the conversation. Clippers could still be loaded. Westbrook gets some help? A team like Minnesota will come on quickly at some point like the Jazz this year though it was really a couple years ago when the Jazz came on only for the front office and coach to continue tanking

[QUOTE]as the Warriors payroll grows too large to maintain.[/QUOTE]

We'll see. Maybe they pay everyone. No rule against it

[QUOTE]Without Hayward, the Jazz must go back to the drawing board, though with Gobert on the roster, a total rebuild is out of the question. [/QUOTE]

Another first read! I can see this front office trying to tank though when they could be really good even without Hayward