Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

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[QUOTE]Wizards at Jazz

O At EnergySolutions Arena

Tip-off

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[QUOTE]Some University of Utah students might

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Adrian Wojnarowski: Utah has claimed forward Malcolm Thomas off waivers, league sources tell Yahoo. San Antonio waived Thomas on Thursday. Twitter @WojYahooNBA

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Put up huge numbers for a couple games in the D-league after the Spurs cut him. Spurs guaranteed his contract for the whole year before cutting him later for some reason. Stretch 4 I believe. Maybe he'll be good enough that they'll trade Marvin. Might be able to compere with Evans for time? Another skinny guy at 6'9 215.

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A good example of why I'm not sure why they kept Clark and Garrett around. Lots of fringe guys to choose from.

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The Jazz, meanwhile, had been watching Thomas for some time. Utah officials had planned to bring Thomas in for a two-day workout this summer before a foot injury forced him to cancel. Salt Lake Tribune

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Prior to his less than stellar stint with the Spurs

Was enough to get him a guaranteed contract for the rest of the year.

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Standing at 6

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[QUOTE]Malcolm Thomas

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When the Utah Jazz drafted Trey Burke this summer, it rounded out their roster, giving them a young player at all five positions.

Which was long overdue. No excuse for them not having a young guy developing before this year.

Fans wanted to see it happen, and Saturday night the young line closed the game together.

The lineup of Burke, Alec Burks, Gordon Hayward, Enes Kanter and Derrick Favors played a total of 19 minutes together in the first 43 games combined. Injuries, learning curves and matchup problems forced coach Tyrone Corbin to shuffle lineups early in the season. In its 104-101 victory over the Washington Wizards, the young core played 13 minutes and closed out both halves.

Against the Wizards, the Jazz had a perfect storm to finally allow the young five to play extended minutes together. The Wizards had two big men in their frontcourt, Marcin Gortat and Nene Hilario, which allowed Kanter and Favors to play side by side.

You could play them together against a smaller line-up and make the other team have to match-up at the other end too.

Burks heated up, Hayward was back, and Burke played solid as usual.

Trey can do no wrong. He's been up and down at best.

This lineup played in a total of five games before Saturday night, averaging about four minutes per appearance. Between early inconsistencies from Burks and Kanter to injuries to Burke, Hayward and Favors, this lineup has had trouble getting off the ground, but it might start to get more time going forward.

They've all had their inconsistencies. Favors has been most consistent.

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[QUOTE]Some might not agree with his decisions, but Corbin believes he

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[QUOTE]The Hawks power forward was largely ignored in fan voting as he did not register in the top 15 among Eastern Conference frontcourt players. However, Millsap is compiling numbers that can

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January 27, 2014 | 07:50 PM ET Update

As momentum gathers for the NBA's Feb. 20 trade deadline, the Phoenix Suns hold one of the league's most valuable assets for deal partners wanting to save themselves several millions of dollars: the expiring

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http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine

This works. Maybe they'd rather have Biedrins instead of Marvin or Jefferson? Jazz save some money, lose more games and get the kids more time on the floor. Suns get some veteran help.