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Al Jefferson is a fatty.

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#UtahJazz center Al Jefferson weighed in at 280 pounds for camp. That is 15 pounds more than Jefferson was listed at just four days ago.

Asked today about Jefferson's shape, #UtahJazz coach Jerry Sloan would only say that several players were not in ideal shape.

Jefferson has said all the right things since joining the Jazz, and appears to be in a good mental space.

He has nearly a month to get in shape and improve his conditioning, and Sloan has not made an issue out of Jefferson's weight.

The fact that Jefferson currently weighs as much as Fesenko is somewhat alarming. Long way to go, though, until Oct. 27.


Bell is down nine pounds. Fesenko has lost 25. (O'Connor was right.) Gaines has added 15, while Miles has tacked on 12.
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Wow, great pickup. We got the next Eddy Curry/Kyrylo Fesenko hybrid.
 
At least he's not Robert Swift though...

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CJ weighs 232 now... dang.

Also, Jeremy Evans is the 3rd lightest player on the team at 6'9, only 9 pounds more than Ronnie Price.
 
People don't just gain 15 lbs in 4 days. Especially when those 4 days are spent doing two-a-day practices. The Jazz could afford to invest in a new scale I think.
 
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People don't just gain 15 lbs in 4 days. Especially when those 4 days are spent doing two-a-day practices. The Jazz could afford to invest in a new scale I think.
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Haha, umm I don't think he was weighed four days ago, he was just LISTED as being 15 pounds lighter.
 
The thing that caught my eyes is AK weighing at 235lbs... I thought he is about 220. Not sure how much he weighed last year.
 
Al Jefferson's weight was 293 prior to last seasons camp, Dropped 31 pounds last season.

Al Jefferson grimaces at the thought of his training being limited at camp. With his surgically repaired knee and his lighter frame (31 pounds), the center is ready to go.



Al Jefferson entered the NBA in 2004, which incidentally is the only season he has ever reached the playoffs.

"Thanks for reminding me of that," he said dryly Monday afternoon at the start of his sixth pro season.

Jefferson this time reported to the Timberwolves 31 pounds lighter than a year ago, when his season ended two months prematurely after he came up clutching a torn knee ligament on a February night in New Orleans.

He did so Monday to a team -- his team -- he barely recognizes after new boss David Kahn jackhammered predecessor Kevin McHale's rebuilding project with another makeover that has made the Wolves younger, faster, more athletic and quite possibly less dependent on Jefferson's low-post scoring.

It also, by Kahn's estimation, has left the Wolves at least another two or three years away from contending for a playoff invitation.

"You can say two or three years," Jefferson said. "People say all that to keep the fans and everybody off their backs. I don't believe it."

Jefferson declared himself healthy and spry enough to thrive in a system new head coach Kurt Rambis promises will run first and utilize Jefferson second, much like the Los Angeles Lakers did with big man Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the 1980s teams on which Rambis played.

Jefferson also suggested he just might be light enough to lead one or more of those fast breaks.

"I led one last year at 293 pounds," he said. "I know I can lead one now."

The more important question might be how he will adapt to a new regime that intends to make his life easier by not featuring him quite as much as McHale's philosophy did and to the franchise's second rebuilding plan in his mere three seasons in Minnesota.
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So he lost 31 pounds from his normal weight and was 265.

So Now he's 280
 
If His best 23-11 year was played at 293. And his worst year was played at 265 I'm not worried about him being at 280 right now especilly since Jerry has him in the weight room apparently on twitter and he's been in the Utah training facilities for a large part of the summer
 
Meh.

Better to keep your expectations low than to expect he's the next Karl Malone and be disappointed.

I'll expect a 15 point 9 rebound guy that plays slightly better defense than Memo and Carlos and who ends up playing 70 games this year.

Anything more than that will be a bonus.
 
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Apparently the word on the street is

Word from above that Jefferson may have been listed at 265 for the last few years, even though that might not have been his actual weight
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The strange thing is he looks much slimmer this season.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp06OrQiW5M
 
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