Dennis Lindsey
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green
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Ha ha. Yeah, right. Maybe at a working man's salary, but when you have the money they have, it's a no brainer.
No.
Jazz had a typical Jazz offseason. Didn't go all out in an effort to retain Hayward and mortgage the future, and didn't blow everything up and start over, drafted their couple guys they liked - steady, conservative, approach. Turned a few assets into seemingly better ones. Good plan. The fallout from a failed reckless approach could destroy a team like Utah.
The Clippers are a treadmill team.
If OKC loses one of their stars to FA next summer, they're a treadmill team too.
The Rockets' roster is thin and Chris Paul is on the wrong side of 30. They could lose in the first round.
The Spurs are losing Parker and Ginobli, LMA is unhappy, and their other role players are aging.
Memphis is aging and floating around the 7th or 8th seed.
Portland hasn't improved much.
The future of the Western Conference is the T'wolves and young teams like the Suns and Kings in a couple years. That's what the Jazz need to prepare for.
If OKC loses one of their stars to FA next summer, they're a treadmill team too.
The Rockets' roster is thin and Chris Paul is on the wrong side of 30. They could lose in the first round.
The Spurs are losing Parker and Ginobli, LMA is unhappy, and their other role players are aging.
Memphis is aging and floating around the 7th or 8th seed.
Portland hasn't improved much.
The future of the Western Conference is the T'wolves and young teams like the Suns and Kings in a couple years. That's what the Jazz need to prepare for.
I am guessing they are still looking at trading him. It is a very good asset. It probably would have been better used earlier when teams were trying to clear space to sign certain players but I still think it has good value. I would guess if they dont trade him they might just end up keeping him. He is a good mentor and helped our team and Gobert out a lot last season.
If you love traffic and population density. But not everyone does. My wife and I would never live in LA if we could find a comparable salary somewhere else.
Coach Ellis
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In kind of hoping that they trade him to pick up an asset, he gets traded again and then cut. Jazz then sign him to the minimum for one more year.
green
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Again, go make 10 million a year then come back to me.
It's a different reality at that level.
Lol, you are digging yourself in a hole. LA might appeal to a lot of rich people but so does other places for lots of reasons. There are plenty of millionaires in Utah that prefer it as there are in many cities all around the world.
Personally having lived near la before I would never choose to live there again but I'm not making 10 million a year so I guess that does not matter.
green
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Ok. I see your point. Let me add another relevant key to all this:
If you were 20-30 years old, making 10 million per year, you'd pick LA over Utah every time.
I wouldn't. Your generalizations are stupid.
No they would not. There are rich kids those ages that choose to live places besides LA. More people would choose LA but not all. There are lots of great places to live and reasons to live there. Even if you want to get specific about rich NBA players at that age some of them have chosen to live in Utah even after not playing here any more because they like it here for various reasons.
Whenever you say always, every time or anything similar it ruins any point you are trying to make. It is obviously not true since it is easily provable that someone lives in Utah that has that much money and is that age.
I assume you are trying to say LA is a better party city that attracts a lot of young and wealthy people which is true. So do a lot of other cities like NY and Miami. But LA is a good spot for a lot of people. A lot of people dont like things about various cities.
I assume you are trolling with this since I assume you are not that dumb to actually believe that statement to be a fact.
But that is a lot of assumptions on my behalf.
You need to learn that definitive statements that like Everybody is rarely a correct statement. Yes plenty of players dont want to play in Utah(This statement is true for every NBA team) for a variety of reasons but not all. Obviously players have chosen to play here and many that have left have had many good things to say about Utah or even regrets for leaving.
Maybe Utah is has less players that want to play for them, but every team in the NBA has players that want to play for that team and players that do not for a huge variety of reasons.
LA is literally the least appealing major city in the US for me to live in. I'm a sucker for Urban living. If I was rich, I'd give SF or NYC a go. But I'm not living in LA and getting stuck in traffic looking at that ugly *** city for half of the day. At least in NYC I can look at the architecture on my way to the extensive public transportation system.
Jack Strop
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You may want to rethink that one about Deron.
Not sure if DWill still has that home in SLC. But he didn't hate living in Utah as you claim. And Burke was just sour grapes from being traded.
Many Jazz current and past players have liked SLC. Do those who want a party lifestyle like SLC? No. But players like Favors, Ingles, JJ, etc. have all talked about SLC being a great place. Mitchell and Bradley were both very happy to come to Utah.
Seriously green, get some professional help. It's clear you are a very unhappy and depressed person. And that inner frustration leads to transposing your anger onto whatever and whoever you can. I've seen it in a few people I know. It's not healthy.