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Should the Jazz Trade Al Jefferson *poll*

Should the Jazz Trade Jefferson

  • Yes

    Votes: 94 88.7%

  • No

    Votes: 12 11.3%
  • Total voters
    106
I think we`re realistically looking at using Al to help a good team get rid of some of their long term obligations. The luxury tax is getting steep after next season, and a team like OKC would likey ship Perkins` long term deal out for one year of Jefferson. The Clippers might do the same with Jordan seeing how he cannot play at the end of games when the opposing team can just foul him or Griffin (I know that Reggie Evans is even worse @fts, but this is something they have to fix). We obviously don`t want any of these guys, so we have to find a team that wants team. Sacramento is a team that might be willing to send us Tyreke Evans and has the cap space to do it. Evans is on a good contract and although he might not help us very much as a player, he would helt us by freeing up playing time for the young bigs. There are probably other teams that need a defensive big and would be willing to give us a younger player with a good contract in return and Evans is just an example of the framework I think we need to work from. Big Al in OKC or LA would make some good offensive teams even better next year.

https://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=74l6l38

https://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=cn9fccj
 
Hedda Gambler said:
I think we`re realistically looking at using Al to help a good team get rid of some of their long term obligations. The luxury tax is getting steep after next season, and a team like OKC would likey ship Perkins` long term deal out for one year of Jefferson. The Clippers might do the same with Jordan seeing how he cannot play at the end of games when the opposing team can just foul him or Griffin (I know that Reggie Evans is even worse @fts, but this is something they have to fix). We obviously don`t want any of these guys, so we have to find a team that wants team. Sacramento is a team that might be willing to send us Tyreke Evans and has the cap space to do it. Evans is on a good contract and although he might not help us very much as a player, he would helt us by freeing up playing time for the young bigs. There are probably other teams that need a defensive big and would be willing to give us a younger player with a good contract in return and Evans is just an example of the framework I think we need to work from. Big Al in OKC or LA would make some good offensive teams even better next year.

https://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=74l6l38

https://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=cn9fccj
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A likely case, and a big reason I see a chance we don't trade him at all.
 
PKM said:
I think we'll see no trades of the starters. We'll just let them expire.
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Agreed. Jefferson's contract is impossible to trade, and Millsap probably isn't going to get us any kind of upgrade.
Best case scenario is that Millsap will finally accept a 6th man role, and dominate teams benches.
 
TheSilencer1313 said:
Agreed. Jefferson's contract is impossible to trade, and Millsap probably isn't going to get us any kind of upgrade.
Best case scenario is that Millsap will finally accept a 6th man role, and dominate teams benches.
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When has an expiring deal for a good young player been impossible to trade? He is very tradeable in my opinion, you are just looking at taking on players with more years on their contract. How many years and what kind of players KOC is looking to take back is the question.
 
I voted to trade Al simply because he is now our best trade asset outside of a couple young players (Favors/Kanter), and because we can't be a balanced team with all our future salary and talent loaded into two positions. I've defended Al by virtue of the fact that I haven't blatantly attacked him. However, I'm equally open to trading Millsap if he doesn't want to be a 6th man.
 
People who say Al stops our offense need to realize that there are stretches and even entire games where we have practically no other offense and the coach calls Al's number.
 
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