Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor has forged a sound working relationship with minority owners Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez, proven by their successful recruitment of Denver’s Tim Connelly to head up their front office, The Athletic’s Jon Krawczynski writes. Taylor, who allowed the duo to design an offer that would be very difficult for the Nuggets to match, enjoys the ambition and energy of Lore and A-Rod and has gained confidence in their ability to complete a major transaction.
We have more from the Northwest Division:
- The press conference involving Nuggets president/governor Josh Kroenke has been postponed after he recently tested positive for COVID-19. He is one of several members of the organization to test positive this week, according to the team. The press conference, scheduled for today, has been tentatively moved to Tuesday, according to the Denver Post’s Mike Singer (Twitter links).
- What are the Jazz seeking to upgrade their roster? A long, rangy wing player who is solid offensively and can defend on the perimeter and switch 1-to-5, Tony Jones of The Athletic writes. However, those players are in high demand throughout the league, which makes the Jazz’s task of finding such a player quite difficult.
- The Jazz’s draft workout on Thursday included R.J. Cole (UConn), Tyson Etienne (Wichita State), Johnny Juzang (UCLA), Jared Rhoden (Seton Hall), Akoldah Gak (Australia) and Trevion Williams (Purdue), Eric Walden of the Salt Lake Tribune tweets. Williams (No. 50 on ESPN’s Best Available list) is the highest-rated among that group of second-round prospects.
Right. The players Benboy wants for Utah are hard to get, and then why pay Gobert so much. Want what everyone else wants, and now you’re competing for the same thing, but from Utah.
No difference between Gobert, Hassan Whiteside and Andre Drummond and when those dudes got paid everyone was like ehhh even tho they had the DWS the blocks the VORP the rebounds.
There’s a big difference between Gobert and Drummond and Whiteside. Gobert is a legitimate difference maker on D. The Jazz have won more games than any other team over the last 5 seasons. They just happen to fall short in the post season. Drummond was a great rebounder other than that he had nothing else to his game. Whiteside had a lot of blocks in one season but otherwise sucked on D, then got paid, then fell off until he accepted a backup role in Utah.
A difference maker on the defensive end, for sure. Shame such a liability on the other end.
What’s the big love the Timberpuppies make? Is it Bradley Beal? LaVine? Brunson? Kyrie? Ben Simmons? Tobias Harris? This is the year to do it. They could bring in 2 max players by moving DLo, Pat Bev, Beasley, and one of their rookie contracts.
Well now there will be plenty of execs employed to ponder these things.
Moving Dlo is gonna hard…..he’s way overpaid.
Following their workout for Utah, Cole, Etienne, Juzang, Rhoden, Gak and Williams, reportedly discussed the stupidity of having a NBA team based in Utah with the name “JAZZ”. It is further alleged that the discussion called into question the intelligence of ownership and management due to their continued use of “JAZZ” for 43 YEARS and why any of them would even want to be employed by such an organization.
Feeling better now?
Not until they change that STUPID name….