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Game Thread 2025 NBA Draft - June 25th & 26th, 2025 - 6PM MT

Added to Calendar: 06-25-25, 06-26-25

kabenac said:
I used an A.I. image generator and typed 'Utah Jazz winning the championship' and this photo came up. This must be a sign we're drafting Ace!
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Nah, that's Yuri Collins, who played last season for the Warriors. Yuri was born with 6 fingers on his right hand. Supposedly, the 6th finger has been surgically removed when he was a baby but Collins will obviously regrow it as a lizard upon joining the Jazz to improve his ball handling. His supreme passing will lead the Jazz to the championship.
 
I’m hoping for a trade up to #3 for Edgecombe or a trade down to #6/7 for Tre/Kon. Trades could effect the order, but here’s generally how I see the priority for teams:

PHI - VJ
CHO - Trade for VJ, or take Kon/Tre
WAS - Ace/Fears
NOP - Ace/Fears

So in theory, whoever CHO doesn’t take at 4 will be there at 6/7 if the Jazz trade back. I say we draft Ace and start a mini bidding war between WAS/NOP. Or if we’re an Ace team we just take him.
 
My favorites (rough ranking, through the first round):

Knueppel
Kasparas
CMB
Wolf
Essengue
Coward
Hansen Yang
Gonzalez
Fleming
Saraf
 
Been completely disengaged from draft stuff since the lottery. But I’ll be tuning in tonight.

Anyone thinking you could trade down and still get Kon I think is in for a rude awakening. We’d be lucky if he lasted to #5, I’m hoping he does and that’s the pick.

Hopefully lots of crazy stuff happens and Jazz have a future star by the end of the night
 
Bawse Dawg said:
Been completely disengaged from draft stuff since the lottery. But I’ll be tuning in tonight.

Anyone thinking you could trade down and still get Kon I think is in for a rude awakening. We’d be lucky if he lasted to #5, I’m hoping he does and that’s the pick.

Hopefully lots of crazy stuff happens and Jazz have a future star by the end of the night
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Kon is great and would be a great pick. I hope we get one of Fears/Kon. Would be a little disappointed with Tre/Ace. Would be confused but intrigued with Maluach.
 
KqWIN said:
Everyone has Fears at #5. Either an excellent smokescreen, or he is the pick.
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My last hunch is that it's a smokescreen. Just... seems very unlike this Jazz FO to have the pick leaked like... 3 days before the draft. This just looks so much like something they would say if they wanted to convince the teams behind us that they don't need to worry and don't need to try to trade above us to take another prospect(like Ace for example).
 
stitches said:
#Cheers4Fears
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I've been talking myself into liking this pick, and honestly it hasn't been too hard. He has a lot of issues of course, but he also appears to be a hard worker with some elite ball handling and driving skills.

I'd still probably pick Bailey or Tre if either are there at 5, but on the other hand I like players who are easy to root for, and Fears is exactly that.
 
Unrelated to this draft, but do you remember when we offered Favors + #5 for #1 to draft Wiggins? That was one hell of an offer, and it was hardly mentioned and just ignored by the national media. It seems like the few times we have a good pick, it just doesn`t matter too much as we just can`t hit that special player in the top of the draft.
 
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