Utah Jazz players under contract

BarneyGumble · Post #1 » by **BarneyGumble** » Fri Nov 4, 2011 8:46 pm

Anyone on here familiar enough with the Jazz contract situations to enlighten me about who is under contract, the length remaining, and the money owed each year? A link would be much appreciated, or a post with the information.

JazzFan mentioned in the AK thread that he would be willing to sign AK to $10mm a year for 2 years. My initial thought is thats way high for Andrei, but it depends on what our situation looks like now and in 2 years before I can make an educated comment on it.

What concerns me is that in 3-years we will need to be able to resign the best of Kanter, Favors, Burks, and Hayward. If Evans becomes worth money, we need to sign him. Given that our franchise is small and cannot throw money at players the way big teams can, Jazz must plan carefully how to proceed.

Jazzfan12 · Post #2 » by **Jazzfan12** » Fri Nov 4, 2011 9:00 pm

http://hoopshype.com/salaries/utah.htm

Kanter will sign for a 4 year, $20 million contract when the lockout ends (or at least, the equivalent to that in the new CBA), Burks will sign a 4 year, $9 million contract when the lockout ends.

BarneyGumble · Post #3 » by **BarneyGumble** » Fri Nov 4, 2011 9:14 pm

So basically for the 2013/2014 season we have a team option on Favors @ $6mm and on Hayward @ $3.5mm, not bad. Jazz have this season to evaluate Evans, and if they think he will pan out as a good reserve player, they could sign him to a reasonable extension....something like $6mm over 3 years. We could offer AK a backloaded deal over 2 or 3 seasons. Something like $15mm over 2 seasons with $10mm coming in 2013. Harris expires next season and we have this season to evaluate his play and see if we want to keep him around or look in another direction to fill our PG slot.

Harris, at this point in his career, may be more interested in consistency and a chance to win than a big salary and a constant change of location and role. We might be able to sell him on filling our veteran leader role, and keep him around after 2013 on a reasonable deal at $3-$5mm per season, while we look for a Maynor-type backup that can give us great play off the bench.

Anyone else have suggestions on what the Jazz should do?

QuantumMacgyver · Post #4 » by **QuantumMacgyver** » Fri Nov 4, 2011 9:17 pm

I've always liked shamsports. http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages ... s/jazz.jsp

That being said, signing AK for 2 years at 10 million per year is about the craziest thing I've ever heard, second only to signing AK for 6 years at 80 million.

Was that meant to be 2 years for 10 million total? 5 million a year isn't bad.

BarneyGumble · Post #5 » by **BarneyGumble** » Fri Nov 4, 2011 9:24 pm

QuantumMacgyver wrote:I've always liked shamsports. http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages ... s/jazz.jsp

That being said, signing AK for 2 years at 10 million per year is about the craziest thing I've ever heard, second only to signing AK for 6 years at 80 million.

Was that meant to be 2 years for 10 million total? 5 million a year isn't bad.

JF1979 suggested $10mm a year for 2 years. I think AK will have a plethora of other interested parties at $5mm per year... I think if we want AK, we need to be prepared to give up at least $8mm/year for 3 years. A backloaded $20mm over 3 years would be ideal since we've got Hayward on a rookie contract and the *shudder* soon to be unemployed CJ Miles @ $3.7mm/year for the next 2 years as our other SF/swingmen....

Jazzfan12 · Post #6 » by **Jazzfan12** » Fri Nov 4, 2011 9:25 pm

Burks and the likely wing picked in 2012 need minutes, I can't see how those guys develop if they bring AK back.

QuantumMacgyver · Post #7 » by **QuantumMacgyver** » Sat Nov 5, 2011 1:48 am

Jazzfan12 wrote:Burks and the likely wing picked in 2012 need minutes, I can't see how those guys develop if they bring AK back.

While I am a 100% supporter of veteran presence for young players, I agree with Jazzfan12. AK is possibly my favorite player of all time, but he is not worth anything over 7 million a year. Too injury prone, and clearly passed his prime.

The Raja pickup at 3 million a year seemed like the right deal at the time... although clearly a mistake in hindsight. AK is still better than best case Raja was at the time of the signing. So, 5 Million seems fair. Anyone who pays over 7 million will be overpaying. IMO.

3 years at 5 million a year would be perfect.

Post #8 » by **jazzfan1971** » Sat Nov 5, 2011 6:23 pm

http://www.storytellerscontracts.com/

Probably my favorite.