The Suns were reportedly pursuing forward Bojan Bogdanovic, but they also wanted Jarred Vanderbilt in the deal and the Jazz balked at including the athletic big man, causing the trade talks to break down, according to John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 FM (Twitter link). Tony Jones of The Athletic confirmed Gambadoro’s report, tweeting that the Jazz “highly value” the young power forward.
Utah ended up trading Bogdanovic to Detroit for Kelly Olynyk and Saben Lee in a cost-cutting move instead, which was pretty surprising both because of the destination and the return package — many thought Bogdanovic would fetch draft compensation.
Andy Larsen of The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday that Utah had late first-round pick offers for the veteran sharpshooter, but the proposals also included longer-term salaries, so the team chose to maintain financial flexibility instead. Within her analysis of the trade, Sarah Todd of The Deseret News alluded to the fact that the Jazz had proposals for Bogdanovic that also included young players, but the Jazz “didn’t want to part ways with some of the players that they see as part of their future.”
According to Jones (Twitter link), the draft compensation Phoenix offered wasn’t enticing enough for Utah to give up both Bogdanovic and Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt is a unique and solid role player on a reasonable contract, Jones observes. The 23-year-old has a cap hit of $4,374,000 in 2022/23, and next year’s $4,698,000 cap hit is only partially guaranteed at $300K.
The Jazz acquired Vanderbilt from the Wolves in the Rudy Gobert trade. In 74 games with Minnesota last season, including 67 starts (25.4 MPG), he averaged 6.9 PPG, 8.4 RPG and 1.3 SPG while shooting 58.7% from the floor and 65.6% from the line.
Vanderbilt is an excellent rebounder, a strong, versatile defender, and plays with tremendous energy, but is a limited offensive player. Considering his age, production and contract, it’s understandable why the Jazz would be reluctant to part with him.
Obv they’re not gonna trade Vanderbilt, they just got him
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Rickey Green
Booz doin his part to make sure that T-Mac never gets out of that 1st round. Yao Ming/Juwan Howard both had great careers, both great players. This is Boozer destroying the both of them in a HUGE game. I almost wanna say he had a better career than both those guys. Twins coming soon.. link to youtube.com
Vando is a plus player. No reason to give up plus players under 25. Vando’s wins above replacement even as a 25 minute a game player will be triple or more what u get from the average late first rounder.
I’d trade him and Bogdanovic and demand two unprotected Firsts
2027
2029
Dump Westbrook Lakers rejected any trade that includes Future Firsts
Jazz would have to view Westbrook as an underpaid player
If the offers of a late 1st were contingent on including Vanderbilt or on taking on long term money, then UTH didn’t have offers of a late 1st for BB. The payroll difference after this deal is minimal (a net of about 2 mm over 2 years, though they get 5 mm of relief this year, which might be the best asset they got back).
KO will have trade value at the Deadline too. Danny Anige is going to let him play so he can trade him.
It still remains totally baffling at the haul Minnesota gave up for Gobert to improve their “defense”. They gave up Jarryd Vanderbilt, their best and most versatile defender. In addition to their best backcourt defender in Patrick Beverley.
In addition to the fact that a team that lacks shooting also included Malik Beasley, who can play on and off the ball, and has excelled at times with his 3-point shooting.
In addition to the fact that they gave up an absolute haul of 1st round picks.
At some point this season, Atlanta will trade Clint Capela. Watch how little they get for Capela.
Baffling!
Terrible trade imo for them. Utah made out like bandits.
Why is defense in quotations?
Rudy isnt good at defense now? lol lol lol.
Beasley can’t play “on the ball” for s**t. He can barley dribble. Keep your terrible uninformed Wolves takes to yourself.
In addition you don’t know ish
In addition you still don’t.
I, and I think 95% of this board thought he’d net a mid 20’s pick min
Really don’t understand why they didn’t want to take on some bad money here. There seems to be an underswell in here that they are going to bounce back after 1 year of being in the lottery . Good luck
Waiting till the TD was probably a more beneficial move value wise here but I smell a cut costing mandate was put on by the higher ups than DA
Shame, cause if your going to parcel your team up the river might as well just go All in. Strangely rosy feelings have existed all summer in here for Utah, how; I have no clue, but we seem to want to make teams in a lab these days. I don’t see these scenarios working out quite as well in the real world but sans the public outrage of yesteryear teams will continue to travel down these dark roads
No, there’s likely more moves upcoming. This was step 5. Steps 6-8? potentially still upcoming. Hard to say which players, but likely a mix of vets and young players that aren’t as big of a priority. Butler, perhaps? NAW? Bolmero? Doke? It’s anyone’s guess at this point.
The 10 step process huh, sounds like AA, tho I couldn’t blame Jazz fans for wanting a drink Rn
Haha, I don’t drink. I’m sure the roster will evolve quite a bit over this year and next. Every time they have a year with multiple draft picks I expect big changes.