"You Gotta Love It Baby" Official Jazz thread

[UtahJazzFan88]

Jazz could amnesty Okafor.

There's a rule in the CBA that you can't amnesty someone for a certain amount of time if you trade for someone, so they would have to wait a bit to do so.

[Mormon Red Death]

There's a rule in the CBA that you can't amnesty someone for a certain amount of time if you trade for someone, so they would have to wait a bit to do so.

there is no such provision.

Amnesty

•

Each team permitted to waive 1 player prior to any season of the CBA
(only for contracts in place at the inception of the CBA) and have 100% of
the player’s salary removed from team salary for Cap and Tax purposes.

•

Salary of amnestied players included for purposes of calculating players’
agreed-upon share of BRI.

•

A modified waiver process will be utilized for players waived pursuant to
the Amnesty rule, under which teams with Room under the Cap can
submit competing offers to assume some but not all of the player’s
remaining contract. If a player’s contract is claimed in this manner, the
remaining portion of the player’s salary will continue to be paid by the
team that waived him.

[UtahJazzFan88]

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/pos...esty-provision

Teams cannot amnesty players they acquire in trade. While the Lakers would be willing to take on Hedo Turkoglu’s enormous contract as part of a package deal for Dwight Howard, they would have liked it a lot more if they were then able to send him packing via amnesty. No such luck.

[Mormon Red Death]

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/pos...esty-provision

Hmmm ... mine came from the google doc that was sent by Stern to the players

[Jacob]

CJ and Bell starting over Hayward.

:anger:

[Jacob]

Hmmm ... mine came from the google doc that was sent by Stern to the players

But your quote said nothing about whether a team can amnesty a player they traded for. They cannot.

[MartyFunkhouser]

CJ and Bell starting over Hayward.

:anger:

CJ and Bell starting over Hayward and Burks

:anger:

[smokymountainrain]

CJ and Bell starting over Hayward.

:anger:

So, essentially Corbin is choosing starters based on years in the league.

[smokymountainrain]

I hope the Jazz get their asses handed to them in the first six minutes of the game.

[Blueintheface]

I hope the Jazz get their asses handed to them in the first six minutes of the game.

And Burks and The Pasty Gansta step in to save the day!

[MartyFunkhouser]

Chad Ford on the Jazz offseason

UTAH JAZZ
Key additions: Enes Kanter (draft), Josh Howard (FA), Alec Burks (draft)

Key subtractions: Andrei Kirilenko, Ronnie Price

Jazz GM Kevin O'Connor never gets the credit he's deserved all of these years in Utah. No one has figured out how to completely rebuild a roster as quickly and thoroughly as O'Connor has. O'Connor made the boldest move of anyone at last season's trade deadline when he abruptly traded Deron Williams to the Nets for Derrick Favors and draft picks.

O'Connor used one of those assets to draft Enes Kanter with the No. 3 pick. Then he used his own pick to bring in Alec Burks. Put those two players together with Favors and last year's lottery pick Gordon Hayward and the Jazz suddenly have one of the best young cores in the NBA. All four players have the ability to be All-Stars if they live up to their potential.

What makes O'Connor one of the best in the business is that he's doing the rebuilding while still putting a respectable team on the floor. He has solid veterans like Devin Harris, Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson still on the roster and added more depth by getting Josh Howard on a super cheap deal.

It's rare that you'll find a team that can compete for a playoff spot and be developing four excellent prospects at the same time. O'Connor has pulled that off this year.

GRADE: A

[smokymountainrain]

And Burks and The Pasty Gansta step in to save the day!

Something like that.

[Maximus]

We still need to move one of the big men in order for oconnor to get a good grade IMO. and get rid of bell.

[MartyFunkhouser]

We still need to move one of the big men in order for oconnor to get a good grade IMO. and get rid of bell.

I agree that Kevin O'Connor should move Millsap. However, I think the grade is justified. I also agree he should get rid of Bell, but I'm not sure that anyone would even want Bell.

[Blueintheface]

I agree that Kevin O'Connor should move Millsap. However, I think the grade is justified. I also agree he should get rid of Bell, but I'm not sure that anyone would even want Bell.

To be fair to Bell I think he would make a great color commentator. He is never at a loss for words.