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Oh, I read it as the West Coast for some reason... We should have a separate thread about his fate anyway.

Must be Svi. For a late second-rounder to the Clippers or something like that.

What, Kessler is done improving? You can argue it was him who improved the most last season.

It is not such a stupid plans for other small-market teams like OKC and SAS. They can afford to wait with all their picks for a guy like that because they are not simply waiting but instead actively competing with a good young core in place already. The Jazz' problem is that Ainge wasted 3...

Directly - no. But they could have been one of the teams involved in multi-team trades. Now the market is down to OKC, SAS ... and several teams that should not be big buyers but may get prematurely desperate (DET, LAL, GSW, Toronto). If one or both of OKC/SAS decide to wait another year for...

One of four teams who are in the win-now mode and have draft assets just spent them on another player. The Jazzfanz: "Price for Lauri just went up!"

Why do you think that this is such a "nuts" statement? This year the non-playin teams in the West were the Suns, Blazers, Spurs and Pelicans. If the Spus and Pelicans are relatively healthy there is no chance that the Jazz finishes ahead of them. Outplaying the ascending Blazers (who finished...

Are you sure about that? Dallas got the first pick this year: they could easily trade it for someone like Giannis and contend immediately. Philadelphia got the 3rd pick: if they trade it for someone like Lauri and Embiid is healthy they are certainly a contender. Last year the perennial deep...

You don't need to because the Spurs will not do it: it would be a firable offense.

Nope, not the same. The Jazz just traded a collection of slightly lower picks for a higher draft pick. Such trades although rarely, but do happen, like Tatum-Fultz. I was talking about trading a top-3 pick for an older established player to "win now". That is simply a much, much rarer situation.

That' not word, these are just usual baseless NBA speculations. Why would you trade a player on a cost-controlled contract who can easily turn out to be the future 10-tine All Star and a franchise cornerstone? Especially for someone who will kill your cap space with a huge contract? They can...

Why do people keep seriously thinking that the Spurs will trade their 2nd pick in a very deep draft (which normally would be the 1st pick) for a win-now older player? I mean, how often such a trade for the top 3 pick happened in the NBA? Besides Wiggins? It is an extremely rare occurrence and...

Lots of people will regret their takes in this thread.

We are looking at the team with no centers and no scoring guards: if Lauri misses his usual 20-30 games they are not making the playoffs. The Jazz will go into the season with the 35-year-old Holiday, 30-year-old Giannis, Lauri and a bunch of the second-year players with no experience of the...

Not that much, actually. The frontcourt (Kessler, Collins, Lauri, Hendricks, Flip) is pretty solid. What we need is to add two competent guards who can play defense and pass. And one of them can be even homegrown if Collier develops a better jump shot over the summer. Or if, say the Jazz draft...

I heard this statement several times, but is it true. If we look at the actual playoff record the Deron-Boozer Jazz had three deep playoff runs ( advanced to the second round two times, and went to the Conference Finals once), while the Mitchell-Gobert Jazz had just two deep runs (both ended in...

One small correction: every promotion that Austin had in the NBA came from his dad. He has not been promoted/hired away in the brief period when Ainge was not his boss in 2021-25. Of course, you may think it is pure coincidence and that Austin has been great at the front office jobs but...

Well, one thing is at least clear: Ainge has no real interest in putting the Jazz' interests first and in making everything to improve them. Unless you truly believe that out of all people working in the NBA the best person for this job "just happens" to be his son. I would not be surprised...

Dude, for all of his coaching career Austin was pulled forward by daddy. After his college graduation he spent a year as an assistant coach at Southern Utah (which he most likely also got through his dad's connections) and in 2009, 2 years after graduating he was already coaching the Maine Red...

Yes, this is a very important advantage. The other one that both of those teams have is that most of their players are big for their positions. One of the downfalls of NY was that Brunson, Hart and McBride were a bit small and had to play through this disadvantage. If you look at Utah there are...