2018 off-season

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[QUOTE]Leadership
The next most important step of Mitchell

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The Cavs now have 13 players under contract heading into training camp, which starts with media day on Sept. 24. They are waiting on restricted free agent Rodney Hood, who is looking at either accepting the Cavs’ one-year, $3.4 million qualifying offer or trying to get them to come up from their three-year offer worth, according to sources, about $7 million annually. Hood is said to be looking for something in the $9 million range annually. – via Cleveland Plain Dealer

You lost a lot of dough asking out! I doubt you ever have anyone that loves you more than Snyder. That's less than Exum who might be the worst player in the whole league!

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A longtime member of the Utah Jazz family took his last breath on Saturday. Dedicated team chaplain Jerry Lewis died earlier this afternoon around 1:30 p.m. in St. George from health complications, according to Jazz play-by-play announcer Craig Bolerjack. His wife, Jean, also confirmed the news to the Deseret News. He was 80 years old.

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Shams Charania: Restricted free agent Rodney Hood is signing a one-year, $3.4M qualifying offer to re-sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers, per league sources. – via Twitter ShamsCharania

Rodney Hood ended his restricted free agency by accepting the Cavaliers’ $3.4 million qualifying offer and placing a bet on himself for a big season this year. He informed the Cavs of his decision today, sources told cleveland.com. – via Cleveland Plain Dealer

Cavs former general manager David Griffin told cleveland.com’s Wine and Gold podcast that he thought Hood would be the team’s primary scorer late in games — a sign of how valuable a player he could be this season. … The roster now stands at 14 players heading into training camp, which is likely where it will stay. The Cavs’ payroll for this season is now in the $115 million range — which is above the league’s $101 million salary cap but under the $123 million luxury-tax line. – via Cleveland Plain Dealer

Albert Nahmad: Rodney Hood accepts the Cavaliers’ $3.4M qualifying offer (per @JoeVardon). He will have an implicit no-trade clause this season, and will become an unrestricted free agent next summer (at which point Cleveland will have his full Bird rights and a $6.6M cap hold). – via Twitter AlbertNahmad

Adrian Wojnarowski: Cavaliers and Hood explored several sign-and-trade options but Hood’s hopes of an offer sheet or Cavs deal in the $10M-$12M annual range never materialized. – via Twitter wojespn

He bet on himself asking out of Utah already. Cost him 10's of millions!

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/09/09/uta...r-daniel-diez/

[QUOTE]The Utah Jazz drafted Diez with the 54th pick in the 2015 NBA Draft. His time as a Jazzman was short lived, as he was traded to the Blazers on draft night in exchange for cash considerations. Diez hasn

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/09/09/uta...-biggest-leap/

Utah Jazz: Which player needs to take the biggest leap?

Dante obviously after getting paid based purely on potential

Dante Exum maybe makes the most sense, because of all the players who are likely to get meaningful minutes for the Jazz next season, he is the one who has yet to even come close to maximizing his fullest potential.

Not only that but he's easily the worst player on the team maybe the whole league

I know many Jazz fans have likely lost faith in Exum. It is hard to be patient with a player who was selected fifth overall and has rarely been able to stay on the floor for the Jazz.

My problem isn't with the injuries but the fact that he has sucked yet has played over better players and will again this year

[QUOTE]That said, I am still high on Exum, and when he does play, he continues to show flashes of brilliance that reconfirm Utah

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What do the Utah Jazz need to win the 2019 NBA Championship?

New GM, new coach, new owners, shooters instead of Rubio, Favors and Exum.

Golden State may be more vulnerable this year than they typically have been. The depth of their roster looks like it significantly drops off after their starting five. We see a 32-year-old Shaun Livingston, a rookie Jacob Evans, a 34-year-old Andre Iguodala, and a couple promising-but-inexperienced bigs in Kevon Looney and Jordan Bell.

You forgot Jerebko. Great pick-up for them!

[QUOTE]Unlike clubs who have matchup problems with a particular player, for the Jazz it was their scheme that was exposed. During the postseason series with Houston, Chris Paul and the Rockets showed a willingness to exploit the Jazz

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3. Alec Burks

I'd say most likely. He better be bought out if they don't trade him. He's too good to not play or maybe not even dress.

[QUOTE]His brief time in Salt Lake City could come to an end this year. The Jazz have plenty of options at the wing position, and the improved play of Royce O

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The Render: LeBron lists his championship contenders for this season: Golden State, Houston, OKC, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto

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[QUOTE]Mark Price (@Mark25Price) has agreed to a deal to join the Denver Nuggets coaching staff, league sources tell ESPN. Price

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[QUOTE]When you

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Round one of the voting is in the books and newcomer Tyler Cavanaugh has been voted as the 17th most valuable player on the Utah Jazz roster.

Considering he's actually shown something at the NBA level you have to put him above Niang and Long if not Exum!

[QUOTE]Expectations likely aren

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/09/10/uta...s-lyles-no-20/

Kind of stupid to even rank the guys that are just camp bodies/future Stars. I'd go with Haas though. He doesn't sound like an NBAer and he'll be a back-up for Bradley with the Stars.

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/09/10/uta...verse-2018-19/

[QUOTE]Check out these custom Dame 4s that Mitchell will (hopefully) be rocking this season