There is not one other guy in the NBA that thinks the way Ron Artest does. Maybe that is a good thing. Ron Artest stands alone in many ways. Where do I begin.
After signing his rookie deal with Chicago, he spent a lot of money. Seeing that his funds were starting to run low he took the [...]
I firmly believe the Jazz will sign Paul Millsap, despite their already staggering payroll, although it looks like Millsap is about to learn what Carlos Boozer and Mehmet Okur have already figured out. This is a bad year to be a free agent.
Boozer promised he would opt out, but clearly he looked around and realized [...]
Excuse me if my speech is a little slurred, but I’ve had a lot of Booze this week.
Booze, Memo and KK all decided, wisely, not to exercise their opt-out options. I thought for sure the greedy agents would sweet talk them in to it. Reality set in. The writing on the wall was clear and [...]
This is Crazy! Nobody is controlling their own destiny. Neither the players or the teams.
The 3 “opt-outs” (KK just opted in) and the restricted free agent, have no control over what another team might or might not offer them, or lie about offering them. The Jazz have no safe way to go until 10 PM [...]
Kevin O’Connor, it’s time to earn your paycheck. In the days and weeks ahead, you will set the Jazz on a course. Where that course leads, not even you know at this point. But you hold the precious hopes and dreams of countless Jazz fans in your influential hands. As spectators, we can only debate [...]
LeBron James may get his NBA Championship now that the Cleveland Cavaliers have paired him with Shaquille O’Neal. But in doing so, James might forsake his opportunity to match the legacy of the truly great ones: Magic, Bird, Jordan. With a year left on LeBron’s contract, Cleveland has adopted a win-now-or-die-trying attitude heading into the [...]
North Carolina has been my college basketball team for about as long as the Utah Jazz has been my pro-basketball team. Of course that in no way means that they are even kind of somewhat equal in terms of my homerness. Put it this way: If Roy Williams walked into my office, I would be [...]
So I guess the plan was to meet at the ESA around 4:30ish, in a full posse with 10-15 Jazzbots bloggers and writers, eat some hot dogs, drink some free soda, play a little draft Bingo and cheer the Jazz through another series of A+ draft selections.
Then there were clouds; big, black clouds. [...]
I don’t want to say I am 100% positive that the Jazz are taking Eric Maynor, the 6′3” point guard from Virginia Commonwealth but I am confident enough (see previous blog) that I am starting to write this blog before the draft even starts so I can post it as soon as it happens. It’s [...]
The latest rumor running through national and local media is that the Jazz are going to select Sam Young out of Pitt tonight. Personally I don’t expect the Jazz will take him. Nothing against Young – I just don’t think he has the size or upside to radically change things up at what is the [...]
After hearing about all the rumors and thinking about what makes sense for each team, this is how I think the draft will go. Am I completely wrong somewhere? Let me know in the comments.
1. Los Angeles Clippers - Blake Griffin - The obvious 1st pick in the draft. Hopefully the Clippers don’t ruin him.
2. [...]
Virtually all basketball-watching eyes in Utah are fixed on the Jazz’s first round pick (20th overall) in tonight’s draft. But don’t count out the possibility of Utah’s second round pick (50th overall) making an impact as well. After all, seven of the twelve Jazzmen who dressed for the playoffs were second round picks (with another [...]
So this might just resemble something near to a post about trades, salary caps and the Jazz. I usually leave that kind of talk up to our specialists in that department; of which I do not belong. But in this case I’ve just got to give it a go. I heard on the radio that [...]
I would be surprised if the guys in the post featuring #1-15 fell to Utah at #20, so these are the players the Jazz could conceivably draft. Let’s get started:
16. James Johnson - has moved up in a lot in mock drafts since I wrote the last post, and the rumors say the Jazz are [...]
On my checklist of things to accomplish in life, being drafted into the NBA ranks somewhere between walking on the moon and fighting Rocky Balboa. Since I’m afraid of heights, going into space is out. And since Rocky is, well, not a real a person, I can’t really fight him. But there’s still the NBA. [...]
Central Florida ● Senior ● Guard ● 6-4 ● 205 ● 12/8/86
26.2 ppg ● 5.2 rpg ● 1.9 apg (2008-09)
Highlights: Named the Conference USA Player of the Year as a senior… Was selected to the Basketball Times All-America Third Team and received Associated Press All-America Honorable Mention recognition… Also earned All-C-USA First Team honors and [...]
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"bottom line artest gets 6 mill a year what makes milsap worth more than..."
"TRADE KIRILENKO and millsap for tracy mcgrady. kirilenko isnt the old AK..."
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"you say milsap’s numbers arent that great as a starter. i say open..."
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