post draft off season part II-bring on the roster moves!

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Ben Anderson: Jared Butler said he won’t go into detail about his heart condition or his knees when asked about the fit-to-play process pre-draft. #TakeNote ⁦@kslsports
– via Twitter BensHoops




Ben Anderson: Jared Butler said whether or not he’ll play in summer league for the @Utah Jazz is still in flux. #TakeNote ⁦@kslsports
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Eric Walden: Jared Butler said he knew the Jazz had interest, but they told him they didn’t believe he’d last until No. 30. “It was a rough night for me. But when the Jazz called, I was extremely thankful.”
– via Twitter tribjazz






Eric Walden: Jared Butler, on what he likes about the Jazz: “I like how they shoot a lot of 3s.”
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Eric Walden: Jared Butler said his goal as a rookie is “I don’t want to be a liability. … I want you to think I’ve been playing six or seven years.”
– via Twitter tribjazz

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Tony Jones: The Utah Jazz are not expected to extend a qualifying offer to Juwan Morgan, making him an unrestricted free agent, league sources tell The Athletic. The two sides have not closed the door on an eventual return. Morgan is expected to have interest on the market
– via Twitter Tjonesonthenba

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Tony Jones: The Utah Jazz have extended qualifying offers to forward Jarrell Brantley and point guard Trent Forrest, League Sources tell The Athletic. The moves make both players restricted free agents

– via Twitter Tjonesonthenba

interesting that they let Morgan become unrestricted and not Brantley. Morgan seemed to be a COTY guy his first year while Brantley never has

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https://www.ksl.com/article/50215584...-he-should-be-

Butler said an emotional Jazz coach Quin Snyder was the first one to call him after the selection.

COTY likes someone other than the 10 guys he played last year?

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https://kslsports.com/464913/report-...ree-year-deal/

60 or 75? Big difference!

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https://kslsports.com/464895/instant...massive-block/

play some D on an adult please

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https://saltcityhoops.com/follow-the...money-tracker/

Utah: The Jazz are $13M or so under the tax without even accounting for Conley, so it will likely be just the TMLE for them. (They also have TPEs, the largest of which they just created in the Derrick Favors deal. But it’s unlikely they use them since the whole point there was to avoid a massive tax bill.)

We actually don't know the point there. Hopefully it was because Favors sucked and they hope to improve the team and COTY proof it

The only other thing to watch is whether any of the full MLE teams offer Conley enough of an upgrade in competitiveness that he’d take a huge discount. I don’t see it. Philly could waive Hill and replace him with Conley to improve their chances, but they currently have bigger fish to fry with the Ben Simmons question looming. Denver is the only other MLE team that finished anywhere near Utah’s record, and they have Jamal Murray (eventually) returning from injury. Atlanta made the Conference Finals, perhaps ahead of schedule, but they have Trae Young so they likely won’t be looking for a starting-caliber PG with their MLE. Boston is at least a fringe contender who needs a point guard, but is a $9.6M offer from the .500 Celtics really better from something in the $25M range from No. 1 Utah?

He could decide he wants to be elsewhere and force a sign and trade

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A look at the roster pre FA

Gobert/Udoka

O'Neale

Bojan/Oni(Non guarantee)

Mitchell/Clarkson/Hughes/Thomas(2021 non-guaranteed, fully guaranteed on 08/03/2021), MaCio Teague(Exhibit 10)

Ingles/Butler(assuming he is signed to at least a partially guaranteed deal?)

UFA - Conley, Niang, Ersan, Morgan

RFA - Brantley, Forrest

8 guaranteed contracts, 8 camp spots left, 2 two way spots open

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Matt Thomas gone.

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Matt Thomas gone.

Guess Zanik not as high on him as the Wizard. Another trade that doesn't look so good

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A look at the roster pre FA

Gobert/Udoka

O'Neale

Bojan/Oni(Non guarantee)/Hughes

Mitchell/Clarkson/MaCio Teague(Exhibit 10)

Ingles/Butler(assuming he is signed to at least a partially guaranteed deal?)

UFA - Conley, Niang, Ersan, Morgan, Thomas

RFA - Brantley, Forrest

7 guaranteed contracts, 9 camp spots left, 2 two way spots open

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Mitch Lawrence: Besides trying to trade Ben Simmons, the Sixers are shopping Tobias Harris. The Rockets are one of the teams that turned down Harris, per sources.

– via Twitter Mitch_Lawrence

Clarkson and Favors would have been close

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Tony East: The Pacers just announced their summer league roster: Goga Bitadze, Bennie Boatwright, Jordan Bone, Amida Brimah, Oshae Brissett, Chris Duarte, Terry Henderson, BJ Johnson, Devin Robinson, Cassius Stanley, Keifer Sykes, Terry Taylor, Tyrone Wallace, Duane Washington Jr.
– via Twitter TEastNBA

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Keith Smith: The Philadelphia 76ers have issued a qualifying offer to Rayjon Tucker, making him a restricted free agent, sources tell @spotrac.
– via Twitter KeithSmithNBA

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https://www.ksl.com/article/50216018...re-the-options

Here's the dream scenario:

Re-sign Mike Conley

Find a rotation player with the taxpayer midlevel exception ($5.9 million)
Find enough players that will sign for minimum deals to fill out the rest of the roster.

get rid of Clarkson. Use trade exceptions and put the best team around Gobert regardless of cost

If Conley does choose to leave, the Jazz will only really have the mid-level exception to replace him, and that wouldn't yield a point guard close to Conley's ability. A perk of shedding Derrick Favors' contract (besides just saving Smith some money — around $40 million, mind you), is the team may have the non-taxpayers exception ($9.5 million), but that still probably wouldn't be enough to land a true starter, let alone an All-Star.

can get a starter for that. More than O'Neale makes

Would Milwaukee's Bobby Portis, fresh off a championship run with the Bucks, be willing to come to Utah for the taxpayer midlevel? What about Nic Batum, who revitalized his career with the Clippers? Would it be worth it for the Jazz to use the exception to bring back Georges Niang?

don't need to use it on Niang. Can sign him anyway

Utah overpaid for Favors last offseason; eight months later, it used a first-round pick to get out of his deal. The Jazz also waived Matt Thomas just a few months after using a second-round pick to get him from Toronto. Those are the types of moves the Jazz don't want to replicate: Ones that end in negative value.

good luck

After the second-round flame out, it's been hard for some fans to remember how the Jazz were among the best in the league this season. But the Jazz are close. A couple moves could very well move the Jazz from among the best to the best.

a couple moves that it doesn't sound like are happening. New coach and new 6th man