"You Gotta Love It Baby" Official Jazz thread

[falafel]

The Cavs have had a grundle of alternates, throwbacks, etc since LBJ entered the league. Same with the Mavs, Suns, Magic, and Hornets.

If you wanted to say "grundle," you could have just said it. You didn't need to embarrass me in the process.

[Donuthole]

If you wanted to say "grundle," you could have just said it. You didn't need to embarrass me in the process.

It's a holdover word from the mission. A comp once accidentally combined the words grande and bundle while we were talking in spanglish, and the word stuck. To this day I sometimes use "a grundle" in place of "a bunch" or "a load" despite the raunchy urban definition.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I love the move back to the music note. The mountain uniforms were pretty bad, but we did go to the finals the first two years after the change so I have a little love for them. The current iteration isn't bad, just forgettable. It's like the Mavs, Jazz and Grizzlies shared design costs.

The worst NBA uniform in recent memory is this one:

I present two for consideration

[scottie]

KALL 700 just mentioned Utah and Detroit are discussing Teyshaun (sp?) Prince for Boozer trade.

[Donuthole]

KALL 700 just mentioned Utah and Detroit are discussing Teyshaun (sp?) Prince for Boozer trade.

Um thanks but no thanks. Not unless they're gonig to throw in Maxiell or something.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

KALL 700 just mentioned Utah and Detroit are discussing Teyshaun (sp?) Prince for Boozer trade.

What is Prince's contract situation? I have never been a fan, he was an above average (maybe) player on a team loaded with talent. If that is all the Jazz can get for Boozer then let's just roll with what we have.

[Donuthole]

What is Prince's contract situation? I have never been a fan, he was an above average (maybe) player on a team loaded with talent. If that is all the Jazz can get for Boozer then let's just roll with what we have.

He's owed about 11 million next year. Prince is definitely not a player worth staying so close to the luxury tax for.

[MarkGrace]

LA handing the Jazz their asses right now.

Jazz getting rocked on the boards.

[MarkGrace]

KALL 700 just mentioned Utah and Detroit are discussing Teyshaun (sp?) Prince for Boozer trade.

Not sure what we'd do with Prince.

[MarkGrace]

Boozer for Prince? Won't happen
February 3rd, 2010


CBSSports.com became the latest member of the Where's-Carlos-Boozer-Going Club, thanks to this item, which was posted Wednesday morning:

-- There are differing opinions in Utah as to what strategy to pursue with Carlos Boozer. Ownership wants to trade him to avoid paying luxury tax. Coach Jerry Sloan wants to keep him because he thinks the Jazz can make playoff noise. All in all, the Jazz might be better off keeping him because their payroll will be roughly $58 million – under the projected tax line – after his $12.7 million salary comes off the books this summer. But don’t discount a solution that would solve both problems: Trading Boozer to the Pistons, who have long coveted him, for Tayshaun Prince. Such a swap would give the Jazz a playoff-tested defender with length and all but get them out of the luxury tax for this season. Prince would be on the books for $9 million next season, but he’d be easy to trade because of his expiring contract. Plus, the difference between owing and receiving luxury tax money this season would be roughly a $7 million swing.

O.K., attention everybody.

The Jazz will not trade Boozer for Tayshaun Prince or any other player who will add to their logjam of wing-type players.

If the Jazz trade Boozer -- and I doubt that will happen given their recent hot streak and the way he's played this season -- Utah will want a capable power forward or center in return.

The Jazz already have five Tayshaun Princes. Their names are Andrei Kirilenko, Ronnie Brewer, C.J. Miles, Kyle Korver and Wesley Matthews. Every night, coach Jerry Sloan has a difficult time getting all his wing players the minutes they deserve, so what sense does it make to trade the 20-point, 10-rebound power forward for another one?

Taking that logic one step father, what sense does it make to even suggest the Jazz would be interested in trading Boozer for Prince, given GM Kevin O'Connor's previous declaration that the Jazz wouldn't mind getting under the luxury tax threshold, but it is not a priority?

Answer: none.

As the No. 4 team in the Western Conference, the Jazz are not positioned to mortgage this season for the future. It doesn't work that way.

The way the Jazz are playing, they look as capable as any team of reaching the Western Conference finals. Beyond that, the Jazz are a Kobe Bryant sprained ankle away from being as capable as any team of winning the West.

Carlos Boozer for Tayshaun Prince?

It makes no sense.

-- Steve Luhm

Gotta agree with Luhm here.

[Donuthole]

AK playing out of his head, again. Er . . . i mean . . . another ho hum night for AK.

Glad he spent some time hooked up to the juvenation machine.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

AK playing out of his head, again. Er . . . i mean . . . another ho hum night for AK.

Glad he spent some time hooked up to the juvenation machine.

I wonder if Masha promised 2 free agent nights a year if he started playing like a big boy again?

At this point do you have to consider Juwan Howard the most successful of the Fab 5?

[Commando]

Jazz looking to change unis to reincorporate the old Jazz logo (which has served as sort of an alternate logo for the past few years) and change the colors to blue, gold, and green. I like it. Sounds like a nice twist on the traditional Mardi Gras colors.

Anyone with some photoshop skills want to edit out the light blue and grey for some green and gold?



http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_14322517

I like.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I like.

Nice, I like it too. Will they go with the Kelly green of the throwbacks? I like the lighter green you used.

[Donuthole]

I like.

Agreed. Navy blue and purple are practically fraternal twins anyway, so it's just a subtle spin on the old colors. I dig it.