He’s a two faced punk. He’ll make comments and wink at the Utah media when it serves him and he’ll do the same to the Miami media when it serves him.

Unload him now so we can SOMETHING for him.

I was flipping back and forth between 1280 and 1320 this morning and on 1280, Lund was reading comments that Boozer was making back in 2004 when he was in Cleveland. They sound VERY similar to what he is saying now. Remember… Boozer’s agency that was representing him walked away from him when he signed with the Jazz. They refused $3M dollars they would have gotten because it was dirty.

The sad thing is nobody is going to trade for Booze now because they know he is gonna walk in a year anyway. If they trade for him, how are they going to guarantee he doesn’t opt out and sign with Miami after this year anyway. Based on his previous actions, nobody can trust him.

It is official. I hate Boozer. He’s a snake. The Jazz are going to be left bending over and grabbing their ankles. I guess it serves them right for signing the snake in the first place.

The Jazz would be smart to trade Carlos Boozer before he decides to opt out at the end of the season. There’s no guarantee he’s going to stay and there’s no guarantee he’s going to stay. Miller, O’Connor, and Sloan need to what’s best for the Jazz and the organization and get something for Boozer before taking the risk of getting nothing. It will be sad to see Boozer leave the Jazz because of the chemistry him and Williams have, but then again what player wouldn’t have good chemistry with D-Will? Boozer’s biggest strength is his quick first step on the offensive end, but his biggest weakness is his lateral movement on defense. Boozer’s gotta be one of the slowest defenders in the league and it’s frustrating to watch. It’s going to be hard to move Boozer because of his ties with Miami. The team giving up quality talent similar to Boozer will be dealing with the same issue facing the Jazz, will he bolt for Miami when the season is over? All signs point to Boozer opting out and heading to Miami during the off season next year. His family lives there, his little boy can’t live in high altitude places, and Boozer’s Boozer. Do you all remember what happened to Cleveland a few years ago? Boozer doesn’t know the meaning of loyalty and will do what’s best for Boozer. Yes, he has his family in mind and I respect that; but at the same time Boozer’s character is a little shady. I’d really like to see Boozer stay, but if the Jazz can get a long, athletic power forward to replace him I’d say pull the trigger Kevin. The Jazz are in an interesting transition with the health of Larry H. Miller so eliminating as much of the off season heart ache as possible before the off season next year would be in there best interest. It’ll be a big off season next year…

Trade Boozer!!!!

my fears about Boozer leaving largely dissipated when Deron signed his contract. You think he would have done that if he knew there was a possibility of his running mate bailing on the team and leaving him in the lurch?

It still might happen that Boozer goes for the benjamins, but I don’t think D-Will signs that deal without some assurance from Boozer that he would be sticking around too.

I think it’s funny how people are talking about how Boozer is going to screw us over like he did to Cleveland. If Boozer decides to leave the Jazz, it will be sad, but he doesn’t owe the Jazz anything. In Cleveland, he had a “behind the scenes agreement” which he obviously broke. Free Agency is Free Agency and he has a right to go anywhere he pleases. The worst case scenario if Boozer does opt out, is that we would have cap space to pay other players or sign other players. Trading Boozer should only be done if we improve the team as stated earlier, not to just “get something in return.”

This doesn’t worry me one bit. I think that when Boozer leaves (notice it’s when not if) there are going to be tons of PFs who will want to come play with Deron. We’ll be fine.

Let’s start talking about how the LBJ trade could all pan out.

it won’t leave the Jazz completely helpless. If we can keep Memo and Korver, then all we’d have to do is slide AK to the 4 and make KK the starting 3. Or, if we pick up a center in free agency, then Memo can play the 4.

I’m just hoping Kosta can develop fast enough to provide a safety net in all of this uncertainty.

I hope Boozer treats every single game this year like he’s courting a max contract from Miami… because if he does, we’ll surely win the last game of the 2009 playoffs.