...here's the basic answer to your question, Dawg! There is virtually NOBODY worth 80 million dollars to the Jazz...and here's why! The Jazz play a "system" structured offense....and they don't NEED an 80 million dollar player to fill any of the 5 spots on the team to make it work and work well! We can get by on way less expensive guys and make the playoffs, win any number of 7 game series' and even make it to the finals, as we did with Stockton and Malone, neither of which ever made max money or were the highest paid players in the NBA! Basketball is, has been and always will be a TEAM game...in which the sum parts is greater than the whole! Who had the highest payroll this past season? Was it the Lakers? Even so, they still needed a number of contributing lower priced players to win the whole thing! The Jazz need not be the highest or the lowest pay rolled team to win the whole thing. You need some superstars, but you need major contributors from the lesser paid players! Now, someone else can take up my cause and continue answering this question....perhaps in clearer terms!
Every team needs at least 2 players who can "take over" on offense, and at least 1 or 2 players who can change the game on defense. The rest of the pieces are interchangeable, which is why you see the Lakers and Spurs win multiple titles with a core of a few players and journeymen everywhere else. The Jazz are looking for one guy who can "take over" on offense to combine with D. Will. Boozer is close to this, but not the cigar, so the Jazz decided to "go in a different direction."