JULY 7: The Jazz have made it official, announcing in a press release that they’ve signed Bogdanovic.
JUNE 30: The Jazz have agreed to a four-year, $73MM deal with free agent Bojan Bogdanovic, tweets Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
Bogdanovic scored a career-high 18 points per game last season with Indiana, also holding career-best shooting marks of 49.7% from the field and 42.5% from 3-point range. The Jazz have agreed to trade veteran forward Derrick Favors – who has a $17.65MM non-guaranteed salary – to New Orleans to clear space for the incoming forward.
Utah plans to add Bogdanovic, a talented offensive option on the wing, to a roster that already includes the likes of Mike Conley, Donovan Mitchell, Joe Ingles and Rudy Gobert.
In addition to Bogdanovic, the Jazz also agreed to a two-year, $10MM deal with free agent forward Ed Davis.
As for the Pacers, they pivoted away from Bogdanovic – and many of their other free agents – by agreeing to acquire T.J. Warren, Malcolm Brogdon, and Jeremy Lamb.
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If the Jazz don’t make the West Finals they are a failure. It’s looking like Golden State and Lakers next season.
Warriors? They might slip a little.
Nice move by the Jazz. He’s a polished player and will help with their shooting. They lost Crowder so he fills a big hole shooting the three. Played a big role for the Pacers and I think they’ll slip even after adding Brogdon.
There’s a lot of stuff that could still change to make the West more competitive. Kawhi’s still unsigned, Nuggets haven’t done much, and the Suns or Kings could make a difference next year
I know they needed the help at the 4, but that $18 million per is about $3-4 million more than I thought hed get at most. Also must mean they’re renouncing favors, so they need a backup 5
Conley
Mitchell
Bogdanovic
Favors
Gobert
favors will have to be waived or traded to make cap space
They’ll put Ingles at the 4. Man that’s a good starting 5. Ingles will have a harder time guarding 4’s and not 3’s but with the DPOY in the middle it’s not too big a deal.
Neither Ingles nor Bojan can rebound. Like at all. Gobert is exposed; they have to keep Udoh and Favors or get someone.
Look up their depth chart, not good
2 projected 4/5s: Gobert & Georges Niang, and surely little capspace remaining. I don’t think they can sign Bojan without renouncing Favors. Well HR will tell us more
link to basketball-reference.com
They got this on guy from France that’s rebounded a few basketballs on occasion.
The money this year is wild. Definitely an up market so far.
Well…. there goes that plan. Damn, Indiana, quit being so damn cheap!
Don’t bring Thaddeus back on the cheap either.
Pacers’ mngt will keep them in NBA purgatory forever
Wrong side of 30. Waste of money.