After exceeding expectations last season with the young Utah Jazz, Mo Williams may not spot in Jerry Sloan’s’ lineup.
This off-season, the Jazz spent nearly $150-million on new contracts to Carlos Boozer, Mehmet Okur, Gordan Giricek, and Carlos Arroyo, not to mention the Jazz already have two point guards in Raul Lopez and Arroyo.
Williams' agent, Mark Bartelstein, is said to be shopping Williams around to some point guard deficient teams.
The Jazz have tendered a qualifying offer to Williams, meaning they can match any offer the 21-year-old point guard receives.
Via The Salt Lake Tribune
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The Pistons had until Thursday to match Utah's offer but officially let nothing else stand in the way yesterday when they waived their right to match the six-year, $50-million offer sheet Okur signed with the Jazz this month, leaving Okur free to play at Utah next season. The move became a foregone conclusion when the Pistons agreed to contracts with forwards Antonio McDyess and Rasheed Wallace.
"It was nothing more than a formality," team vice president John Hammond said Monday. "After signing Rasheed and Antonio, we had no room to sign Mehmet."
Last week, Okur told the Zaman newspaper in Turkey that he was happy to be going to the Jazz.
"I had a really hard term last year with the Detroit uniform," he said.
Via Detroit Free Press
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The Jazz's losing streak has been broken in the free-agent market.
Mehmet Okur, one of four restricted free agents from another team to sign with Utah over the past two summers, will become the first one to actually join the Jazz on Tuesday. The Detroit Pistons have waived their right to match Utah's six-year, $50-million contract offer to Okur, an NBA source said Sunday, allowing the Jazz to add the 6-foot-11 center to their roster a couple of days early.
The Pistons' 15-day matching period would have lapsed at 10 p.m. MDT Thursday, and Detroit president Joe Dumars had made it clear that he had no intention of trying to slash his payroll in order to free up the salary-cap space necessary to retain Okur. Allowing the Jazz to sign the Turkish center before the deadline is apparently a courtesy being extended by Dumars to Okur, agent Marc Fleisher and the Jazz. Pistons coach Larry Brown is a close friend and former boss to Kevin O'Connor, the Jazz's senior vice president of basketball operations.
Via Phil Miller of the Salt Lake Tribune
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Jazz Jul 2004 Archive
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The News-Herald | Jul 24, 2004
This trade with Orlando for Drew Gooden and two others seems to have ended any chance that Cleveland would match the offer sheet Carlos Boozer signed with Utah.
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KCRATV, Associated Press | Jul 23, 2004
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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KSL TV | Jul 20, 2004
According to Utah TV station KSL Greg Ostertag is venturing away from the Jazz after nine seasons and will sign a contract with the Sacramento Kings tomorrow.
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Deseret News | Jul 18, 2004
The Jazz are making some decisions.
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Cavs.com | Jul 14, 2004
To: Cavaliers Fans
From: Gordon Gund
I know last week’s developments with respect to Carlos Boozer are a source of extreme disappointment for you.
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Branson Wright- Cleveland Plain Dealer | Jul 13, 2004
Carlos Boozer has had enough of the character assassination that has pounded him since last week's announcement that the Utah Jazz have offered him $68 million over six years.
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The Salt Lake Tribune | Jul 13, 2004
Amid a mountain of criticism, Rob Pelinka, has resigned as Carlos Boozer’s agent.
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George Sipple and Perry Farrell of the Detroit Free Press | Jul 12, 2004
Antonio McDyess played for Larry Brown as an Olympian and now he'll play for him as a Detroit Piston.
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Yahoo! | Jul 12, 2004
The Jazz signed their first round picks Kris Humphries and Kirk Snyder to 3 year contracts today.
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AP | Jul 12, 2004
"Making a last-ditch effort to retain Carlos Boozer, the Cleveland Cavaliers have offered him a one-year contract worth about $5 million amid reports he will part ways with his agent, The Associated Press has learned.
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ESPN | Jul 12, 2004
ESPN is reporting that Rob Pelinka has informed the NBA Player's Association that he had resigned as the agent for Carlos Boozer in light of the controversy surrounding his ex-client's signing with the Jazz.
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Ian Thomsen of CNNSI.com | Jul 10, 2004
Why would anybody want Jim Paxson's job?
Paxson, the Cleveland Cavaliers' general manager, is being ripped for allowing forward Carlos Boozer to escape as a free agent to the Utah Jazz.
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ESPN | Jul 8, 2004
So much for verbal understandings.
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ESPN | Jul 8, 2004
Utah Jazz GM Kevin O'Connor told ESPN Insider Chad Ford that the Jazz and Kenyon Martin mutally agreed to cancel his free agent visit to Utah on Thursday.
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ESPN | Jul 8, 2004
After losing out on free agent center Mark Blount, who agreed to re-sign with the Celtics earlier Thursday, the Philadelphia 76ers reached an agreement with forward Brian Skinner, ESPN's David Aldridge reports.
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ESPN | Jul 7, 2004
The Utah Jazz, continuing a strong offseason, re-signed starting point guard Carlos Arroyo to a four-year, $16 million deal, a league source told ESPN's David Aldridge on Wednesday.
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New York Post | Jul 7, 2004
The Nets will have some experienced players on their summer league roster, including John Wallace, Jeff Trepagnier and Donny Marshall.
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Detroit Free Press | Jul 5, 2004
Mehmet Okur will carry the Olympic torch in Istanbul, Turkey today, and he will marry a Turkish model Wednesday.
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Desert News | Jul 3, 2004
"The early leader in the rumor mill among the Jazz's four restricted free agents is starting point guard Carlos Arroyo, who seems to have drawn attention from numerous teams since the NBA's summer free-agency market opened Thursday.
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DeseretNews | Jul 3, 2004
The Utah Jazz love Greg Ostertag and would love to keep him around.
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Kim Baxter of the Syracuse Post-Standard | Jul 2, 2004
Syracuse assistant coach Troy Weaver will be named as a scout for the NBA's Utah Jazz, according to a source close to the situation.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Jul 1, 2004
"One of the most indestructible men in basketball history, facing months of rehabilitation from knee surgery with vitually no chance of meeting his self-imposed mandate of "100 percent" health next season, has decided to end his 19-year NBA career, several league sources said Wednesday.
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Phil Miller of the Salt Lake Tribune | Jul 1, 2004
Achilles had his heel.
