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The 76ers tried tanking for a few years to get picks, how is that working out?

Currently in the running for comment of the year so far…

Good get!

Now, give me a concurrent announcement of a $12 million NIL fund specifically for men’s basketball and I’ll be over the moon.

Smith and Ainge have not exactly covered themselves with glory, but I would say the NBA itself has destroyed the Jazz just as much as those two have. Utah is a small market and a state with no “street cred”, making it hard to get free agents to come. That’s the result of the NBA doing what the NBA does, and it seems to suit them fine.

Well, I am glad they are successfully tanking this year. The last two years seem like a bit of a waste.

I’m much more excited for the Mammoths, and it warms my heart to see everyone chugging their beer on the jumbotron in honor of Ryan Smith.

Jensen will bring new excitement to the program since coach K first came in. I’m not expecting overnight success but the program will become solid and be fun to follow and watch. It’s been a long time since we’ve watched good basketball in this state.

So I’m stoked for this. But I hate the reality that if our NIL isn’t competitive we’ll still suck, doesn’t really matter how good of a coach Jensen is. So hopefully our NIL is very well funded. I at least want us to be able to compete with BYU for talent (and that is feeling like a tall order, sadly).

The zoobie troll reappears.

I do think that Free Agents would come if they are star #3 or something. Like if the Jazz got two top players, a star who wants to win more than be in LA would be gettable.

And therein lies the challenge.

True, but to play devil’s advocate a bit, Denver has been solid the last few years and it isn’t a destination either, heck, for that matter the two conference leaders are Cleveland and Oklahoma City. So it’s still possible for our markets to be successful, but to your point, it’s still hard to hold onto that talent and that hurts fans and fan interest.

Honestly, that’s reasonable. Good points. I totally understand fan impatience here. I mean Utah has never been consistently the crappy team in the league when the Miller’s owned it, despite being one of the smallest markets. I’m ok being patient here and giving benefit of the doubt, but i get others not feeling the same way.

Funny enough, the year the Jazz were really supposed to tank was the year they blew it all up in the off-season. We shipped Rudy and Donovan away and we were supposed to be in the tank sweepstakes for Victor Wembanyama, but the Jazz started the season on a 10 or 11-game win streak.

I think the fan sentiment here in this state is that we’re not…[Read more]

My life improved when I stopped caring about the NBA.

Yay!!!

I am absolutely pro tank and like it was mentioned above it can be done well with some added luck (OKC). In fact, to me, they have not tanked hard enough. They should have traded Clarkson, Collins, and probably Sexton (but I love him).

Donovan was not staying period. You absolutely cannot let him go for nothing. Rudy was not good enough, young…[Read more]

For all we know, Alex has made a commitment which is being kept secret while he sorts out the process of leaving his current position.

The concern I have is that since the departure of Karl Malone and John Stockton, on the rare instance where the Jazz have developed a rookie into a star, as soon as those stars make an All Star team, they typically fall in love with themselves and want out of Utah. It generally takes at least as long as a rookie contract to develop a rookie into…[Read more]

The Jazz are trying to take the OKC Thunder route. The Thunder have spent the last decade stockpiling draft picks and assets and they full-on tanked two seasons in a row for high draft position and now they’ve been the top team in the west for the last two seasons. Even after all that, the Thunder still own THREE first round picks in the draft…[Read more]