New Future Power Rankings- Jazz #5

[Golfman]

It's an insider story. https://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/news/story?page=FuturePowerRankings-1-101216

For the future power rankings (looking at next 3 years), they have

1. Miami
2. OKC
3. Lakers
4. Bulls
5. Jazz

I'll take it!

 

[honz]

Utah also ranks high on the management scale. Jerry Sloan continues to work his wonders from the sidelines, GM Kevin O'Connor quietly constructs a rock-solid team every season and Jazz owner Greg Miller continues to be willing to pay the tax, within reason, to keep Utah in contention.

This can't be true, right? This goes against everything Jazzfanz has taught me. I can't believe the mods let us get brainwashed like this.

 

[Siro]

Lakers? In 3 years? How??

 

[David Stern]

Lakers? In 3 years? How??

Because we all know that Kobe won't retire for at least another three years. Hopefully by then Derek Fisher will have gotten run over by a train though.

 

[dipship31]

Lakers? In 3 years? How??

They are the Lakers, most likely they find a way to get great pieces at little cost to replace Kobe.

 

[chemdude1232]

They'll still have Pau, and frankly I could totally envision them going hard after Blake Griffin.

 

[dipship31]

They'll still have Pau, and frankly I could totally envision them going hard after Blake Griffin.

I see them going after Deron as well

 

[PrinceJL]

The Chicago Jazz ahead of us??

DWill / Big Al / Millsap > DRose / Boozer / Noah

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

Easy: Lakers have $$, thus they will be good.

 

[UB]

I could totally envision them going hard after Blake Griffin.

I want to cut another piece out of this quote, but you see what I'm getting at.

 

[chemdude1232]

Be dirty for daddy.

 

[GoJazz]

Easy: Lakers have $$, thus they will be good.

I get your point but its false. The Knicks have money and they have sucked for a while now.

 

[chemdude1232]

I get your point but its false. The Knicks have money and they have sucked for a while now.

The Knicks are proof that a free-flow of cash does not equate to success. Their front office was populated largely by morons for the past decade. The Lakers, however, seem to have their heads screwed on straight, so I tend to agree with LifeOnaPlate. Still, you have a point, GoJazz. It's all about *how* you dole the moolah out.

 

[GoJazz]

The Knicks are proof that a free-flow of cash does not equate to success. Their front office was populated largely by morons for the past decade. The Lakers, however, seem to have their heads screwed on straight, so I tend to agree with LifeOnaPlate. Still, you have a point, GoJazz. It's all about *how* you dole the moolah out.

Thanks for saying what I am to dumb and lazy to articulate.

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

I get your point but its false. The Knicks have money and they have sucked for a while now.

They have money and they never had Isaiah Thomas.

 

[LogGrad98]

By then the Lakers will be:

D Will - acquired in a LeBron-esque bailout
Kobe
Odom
Griffin - acquired for a couple of the Lakers Girls and a ham sandwich in what the clips call a "great deal" to rebuild....and countless dollars under the table.
Gasol

Looks solid to me.

/sarcasm

 

[chemdude1232]

That team would beat the tar out of the Heat.

 

[franklin]

How many times do I have to show the CBA limits Buss from buying championships? Never has, hopefully never will. NBA is about attracting talent, not buying it. Mark Cuban, whoever the hell owns the Knicks, and that rich dude ex-computer something or other would own rings if greenbacks really mattered as much. Those 3 are oferraton. Lakers win. They don't buy them. They CONVINCE. We best learn the word and sour D-Will on LA (if he hasn't been already).

 

[unluckyseventeen]

Because we all know that Kobe won't retire for at least another three years.

I don't know about retirement, but the skeptic (and Jazz fan) in me thinks he can't hold up at that age with the nagging injuries he's constantly playing through nowadays and in the past few years.

 

[chemdude1232]

I don't know about retirement, but the skeptic (and Jazz fan) in me thinks he can't hold up at that age with the nagging injuries he's constantly playing through nowadays and in the past few years.

I agree that he won't hold up to his 26 ppg level, but I see him aging well. A Kobe that scores 17 could then focus on passing (which, admittedly, he's underrated at) and doing some help defense. Megastar at 36 years old? No. But damn effective? Yeah I'd say he would be.