2022 Camp begins-The tank is on

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The Lakers engaged in trade talks with the Utah Jazz, Indiana Pacers and Brooklyn Nets, sources said, and the conversations often hit a similar snag. Several teams that the Lakers engaged with insisted on L.A. including both of their future first-rounders in a deal; the Lakers were determined to trade only one of the two unless the package would return a can’t-miss-talent such as Donovan Mitchell or Kyrie Irving.

– via Dave McMenamin @ ESPN





The Lakers originally planned to have found a trade partner for Westbrook before signing Schroder, sources said. But after the point guard’s strong showing for Germany in the FIBA EuroBasket tournament generated interest around the league, L.A. signed him before another team could.

– via Dave McMenamin @ ESPN

Clarkson please!!!

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Omari Sanfoka II: Killian Hayes, Hamidou Diallo, Bojan Bogdanovic and Isaiah Livers practiced today, Casey said. Diallo missed all of preseason with a quad injury. Nerlens Noel went through some pre-practice work.
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https://www.slcdunk.com/2022/10/15/2...d-jared-butler

It’s an interesting decision that has some angles to consider. Johnson showed last year with the Lakers that he’s a viable NBA rotation player. He’s not a very good offensive player but he can fit in the NBA as a versatile wing defender. There’s probably not a lot of upside there for Johnson and that was probably the reason they let him go. Considering the Jazz aren’t going to be very good this year, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to give a lot of minutes to Johnson who wouldn’t likely be on the Jazz in 2-3 years anyway.

more of an end of the bench guy. Lakers sucked

Regardless of the spilt milk that sowered this Jazz roster after last season, the Jazz had very few options with this decision. Kepping Zeller was not going to happen and if they also cut Udoka Azubuike that would have left them without a third-string center. For Butler, who’s ceiling was probably a high level third guard, it’s a tough loss but the Jazz are making decisions that will improve the team in the next 2-3 years. It’s hard to say that Butler would be a part of this roster at that time, whether they keep DOK or not.

hard to say what his ceiling is

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Aaron Rose: The Raptors have signed Saben Lee to an exhibit 10 contract. He’s been waived and will join the Raptors 905

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dominated Gleague a year ago. Won't be there long

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Keith Smith: Micah Potter’s Two-Way contract with the Utah Jazz is for two years, a league source tells @spotrac.
– via Twitter KeithSmithNBA

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Eric Nehm: Bucks make it official. They have cut down their roster to 17 by requesting waivers of Marques Bolden and Lindell Wigginton. pic.twitter.com/dlQKy5zSr8

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Bucks make it official.
They have cut down their roster to 17 by requesting waivers of Marques Bolden and Lindell Wigginton. pic.twitter.com/dlQKy5zSr8
— Eric Nehm (@eric_nehm) October 17, 2022

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Donovan Mitchell is the ‘least’ abused player in the top 50 in terms of the share of negative Tweets directed at him. He ‘only’ had 24.32% negative sentiment rate.
– via Action Network Staff @ Action Network

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Former Jazz player Jeremy Evans signed a one-month deal with French team Paris Basketball.
– via Alberto De Roa @ *********

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Rylan Stiles: The Oklahoma City Thunder has waived guard Trey Burke and forwards Marquese Chriss and David Nwaba. They were originally acquired on Sept. 30 from the Houston Rockets. Per team PR
– via Twitter Rylan_Stiles

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Tony Jones: As expected, the Utah Jazz will not sign Nickeil Alexander-Walker to a rookie extension, League Sources tell The Athletic. That clears the way for NAW to be a restricted free agent this summer. Big year for the combo guard
– via Twitter Tjonesonthenba

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https://www.ksl.com/article/50497607...year-extension

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https://www.deseret.com/2022/10/17/2...ng-this-season

The biggest pieces of evidence are that the Jazz traded away the players that kept them in playoff contention over the last few years. The most important pieces the Jazz received in those trades were future assets. They wanted large hauls of draft picks and they got what they wanted.

they traded a statue away for picks and young guys. The tank has been on officially since

There are no NBA players who want to lose. There is not an NBA coach who is going to coach players to lose. So when they say they want to win, they are not lying. But if a front office is trying to increase their odds at a high draft pick, it’s their job to take away winning pieces from a team, disrupt the composition of the team, and make sure that the team is not set up to win.

while keeping a losing piece in Clarkson and maybe Gay

If I were to ask, who would win you more games: Olynyk or Bojan Bogdanovic? My answer would be Bogdanovic, which is why he’s not in a Jazz uniform anymore. Olynyk though, with only a $12 million deal, could be easily traded next year when his deal is expiring and not fully guaranteed. It’s also possible that a trade featuring Olynyk could net a future asset, or be part of a larger deal, which would then make the Bogdanovic trade look a lot better. So, we have to wait and see how that pans out.

I'd say Olynyk actually. More importantly they needed a vet center more than a wing. Also younger

Maybe the rotations and minutes distributions will change after the trade deadline. Maybe there will be some more movement that we aren’t anticipating right now. But I’m also wondering why Agbaji didn’t get more runs during the preseason and what his opportunities are going to look like in the upcoming days, weeks and months.

not much doubt the team will look much different after the trade deadline. Agbaji can play big minutes with the Stars in the mean time. If he dominates down there than he gets minutes with the Jazz sooner

Two-way players Johnny Juzang and Micah Potter are not going to be featured heavily. Of the 15 regular roster players, it looks as if Udoka Azubuike, Leandro Bolmaro, Simone Fontecchio and Agbaji are at the tail end of the pecking order. That leaves an 11-man rotation that will probably get the lion’s share of the rotational minutes.

Udoka has been hurt. What we do know is he was really good starting last season. Hard to imagine he will not be in the rotation once he's cleared. Simone I'd think will be in the rotation sooner than later as well. Bolmaro hopefully gets a shot once they get rid of some vets

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Tony Jones: Ryan Smith said the Jazz will have more streaming options next season. He describes the process as “all hands on deck” and said the conversations are going fast and furious

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Ben Anderson: Ryan Smith confirmed the Jazz were caught off guard by the loss of the #takenote hashtag. Sounds like Twitter dropped the ball.
– via Twitter BensHoops







Sarah Todd: Me: “Ryan I thought you and Tim cook were supposed to be friends?” Ryan Smith: “We’re not. You talking about the hashtag?” Me: Yup Ryan: “Yeah that was weird. I saw it when you guys did. I will look into it.”
– via Twitter NBASarah

hard to believe the tv package has still not changed and they keep renewing with a station that cut off a lot of people from seeing the game

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Tony Jones: Justin Zanik: this year was unique because we had to cut legitimate NBA players. Not guys who were tryout guys, but legitimate NBA players

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should be the case pretty much every year especially since the Jazz are always so deep!

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Eric Walden: Jazz owner Ryan Smith, on the rebuild: “Let’s be honest: We’re a team in a city where we’ve got to build through the draft.”
– via Twitter tribjazz





Eric Walden: Asked Danny Ainge if Donovan Mitchell — who was noncommittal about remaining with the Jazz at the end of last season — if the guard ever officially requested a trade: “I won’t divulge our private conversations.”
– via Twitter tribjazz