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The Jazz are trading D-Will to New Jersey!?

The ESPN EXCITEMENT List: Perry Jones (yeah, him), Kyrie Irving ("not an elite athlete"!), Jared Sullinger ("not an explosive athlete, undersized"), Derick Williams (so close!), Mr. Turkey, Terrence Jones (not to be confused with Perry), Jonas The Swishy Lithuanian, (Didn't You Used To Be) Harrison Barnes, and a couple other dudes.

Maybe the Nets know what they're doing over there.
 
Al Jefferson for Peja's expiring and their 1st. Get er done. The Raptors need a legit big to build around. He's not the legit big we need.
 
Does anyone remember how good Harris was his first year on the Nets. He was a beast! Since then he has not been happy in New Jersey a move to Ut. could be good and raise his level of play.

Would I rather have Deron yes, but I don't think Harris is as bad as some are saying.
 
Ask Deron who gave him the most trouble in college and, as we've seen first hand, in the NBA.

Devin Harris.
 
Leonard-ButtThong said:
Hi Everyone -

Leonard here. Longtime reader, first time poster. Been living out in San Francisco since college, but still a Jazz superfan. Now, such big news this morning, felt inclined to register and drop in my two cents:

I like the trade. I think being a Jazz fan can spoil a lot of people, and they lose sight as to how marginal and complacent many NBA teams are. There is no worse place to be in this league than an aging, mediocore team that's hovering around an 8th or 9th seed, and has clearly seen it's best days. This incarnation of the Jazz had run it's course, we had some good days, but it's gone from Western Conference Championship to second round exit to being swept to the slow trainwreck of this season....

Deron Williams wasn't going to stay, and the league knew it. Leverage was slipping away and the Jazz faced the very real (and I feel likely) possibility of having him leave for nothing. Do you hang on and hope for the best? Sure, if it's LeBron James. Not it's a borderline allstar on a team falling apart with a best case scenario of a 7th seed.

I like the trade. New era.
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Solid first post Butt-thong. Keep it up.
 
First Sloan, now this. It is quite surreal. It is bittersweet to see Deron gone, but with Sloan gone too. I just do not care anymore. The writing was on the wall it was time to rebuild this team anyways, so it has gotten a headstart. It will be quite interesting to see the direction the Jazz go in rebuilding the team.
 
For all the whiners stating that we didn't know if Dwill was going to bail or not:

The deal that will send the Jazz's franchise player to New Jersey is merely another indicator that stars make the calls and run the league. While Williams could argue he couldn't control the trade, he did in a sense. He was scheduled to become a free agent in 2012. He was unhappy with the direction the Jazz were going, unhappy with the coaching staff when Jerry Sloan was around. The Jazz wouldn't have traded him if they'd had a prayer of keeping him here after his contract season.

This is the player that complained of teammates not knowing the plays, earlier this season. Same player who said last summer that if the Jazz didn't get some talent to surround him, he didn't want to be here.

It didn't take a fortune-teller to know that a year from July, he would have left as a free agent, and the Jazz would have received nothing in return. As it is, they got Devin Harris, a talented veteran point guard, and Derrick Favors, a No. 3 draft pick, who is only 19. Neither is the caliber of Williams, but both are better than losing Williams for nothing. Meanwhile, the Jazz will also reportedly get $3 million and two first-round draft picks.
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https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700112585/Era-of-superstars-in-Utah-is-over.html
 
Ive recieved 7 condolence text messages from fellow NBA fans...

"oOt a good year to be a Jazz fan..."
 
Anybody that was asking or lobbying for the Jazz to make a trade or shake things up, well here it is and I don't wanna hear nada coming from your pie holes, you asked for it and as they say careful what you wish for.
Same goes for people wanting Sloan gone *but at a lesser degree only because Sloan wasn't likely staying for much longer anyway*

My initial reaction was disbelief and DAMNIT! But I can see some benifits to the trade but only if I'm trying to be optimistic cause despite his recent poor play and rough attitude DWill is one of the top PG's in the league.

Here's to me and my imaginary dream world I'll be living in where Harris plays like he did in Dallas and early year in NJ that was putting up AS numbers and Favors turns into Amare but plays good D and that IF Harris doesn't want to stay in Utah that DWill spurns NJ and comes back after next season. *shh don't wake the dreamer, they can become homicidal*
 
hollinger's take:

For Utah, this was an elegant way out of an inelegant situation, and likely represents the first of several trade dominoes for a Jazz team that is still over the luxury tax threshold but unlikely to make the playoffs. Harris will take over at the point, but the greater incentive was getting what could potentially be three lottery picks -- New Jersey's unprotected 2011 pick, a 2012 pick from Golden State that is only top-seven protected, and Favors, the third selection in the 2010 draft.

Favors' job will be to add some size and defensive presence to a frontcourt that has offensive stalwarts Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap but has struggled to guard opposing big men. Despite a bumpy rookie season, scouts remain high on Favors' potential.

Additionally, one presumes the Jazz will spend the next 24 hours before the trade deadline searching for opportunities to dump Andrei Kirilenko, Mehmet Okur, and/or Raja Bell and get themselves under the luxury tax threshold -- Utah will be about $5 million over the luxury tax line after this trade. While the playoffs aren't out of the question, the Jazz are only a half-game ahead of Memphis for the West's eighth and final playoff spot at the moment, and the team was only 4-13 in its last 17 games, even with Williams.
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