but decided against it.

didn’t he also file for divorce and is now taking it back, since they’re trying to reconcile?

did indeed float that story, then of course boozer will continue to maintain that the conversation happened.

that’s not to say that i believe locke’s gloating, since all of his sources/scouts/interviewees invariably agree with him.

I guess Kruger’s not making the team.

wanting to play better last season so that he could be a FA before 2010, where he’ll just be an afterthought to guys like LBJ, Wade, Bosh, etc.

I don’t mind Booze on the team when healthy, but there are enough health questions to make it questionable.

Here are statistics for two players from their starts during their third season in the league. Ready?

Player A:

Mins Pts Rebs (o-rebs) asts blks fg% ft%

34.7 17.8 9 (2.8) 2.8 0.5 52 70

Player B:

Mins Pts Rebs (o-rebs) asts blks fg% ft%

34.4 15.9 10.3 (4) 2.4 1.0 54 70

Which one is Paul Millsap and which one is Boozer? And does it matter? They are pretty similar. In fact the only difference between Boozer and Millsap after their third season is that Boozer was a starter and Millsap was a backup.

So explain to me why signing Boozer to a 5 year $55 million deal or whatever, is worth the money and Millsap is not worth the money at 4 years and $32 million? Production is production is production. Millsap has already shown that he can produce as well as Boozer could when they were the same age. And Millsap is like 40% cheaper than Boozer was/is.

Oh, and Millsap is player B.

that totally agrees with you. Everytime I look at the contract Portland offered, I get a sinking feeling that we may have seen the ceiling for Millsap already this past season. If that’s the case, we just signed another PF that is too undersized to defend, and we just secured both him and a center that doesn’t play defense for another 3-4 seasons.

Looking around the league, that sinking feeling is growing in my stomach. Look at what other teams are paying out there:

Brandon Bass (signed as a backup undersized PF) – $18M for 4 years
Marcin Gortat (signed as backup C) – $34M for 5 years
Paul Millsap (signed as a starter/backup undersized PF) – $34M for 4 years

Maybe we should consider paying that 1 year, $12M lease on a certain C. Boozer.

to Boozer for deflating what little leverage the Jazz had left. KOC had played things as well as he could, trying to posture to other GM’s we were in no rush to trade Carlos. [Insert whining cat sound] Thanks, Carlos, for letting that out of the bag.

I know, and in a perfect world where Milsap turns out to be a viable starter, that’s a great solution. But he can’t bang low with the likes of Shaq, Howard, or even Gasol for a 7 game series and come out ready to play another. He’s just not big enough. Okur, being an untraditional C needs help down there, and Milsap doesn’t have the size. Do we really wanna lock that in at this price? I don’t. I know D-Will is the franchise player, but this is a key moment in the Jazz’s franchise… I really feel like we’re gonna blow it by signing him. I’d rather have one more subpar year (which if Booz, Okur, AK, and Williams play up, a potentially great year) with an expiring all-star PF contract then 4 more seasons of cap scraping and inability to compete because we were hasty about resigning Milsap. I’m not saying that Paul can’t do it… he may blow the doors off in the next few years, but I don’t think he’s proven that he’s ready to put a franchise on his back at that position.

I tell you what would make everything better… if AK took a voluntary pay cut. Then again, it would also make things better if I had a pony that crapped golden eggs… and that’s probably a more likely scenario.

This off season is getting ugly.

dwill also said last summer that he wants cj back “in the worst way.” and then the jazz went out and matched for him. not the greatest move imo.