While Wednesday’s trade agreement for Mike Conley took some of the excitement away from Thursday night’s NBA draft for Jazz fans, who were left to hope the team might strike another deal to move back up into the first round.
Didn’t happen. Neither did trading up into the early-30s to land one of the purported first-round talents who slipped, given that the price tag for some of those picks was as high as three and four future second-round selections.
They did eventually make a deal — two in fact, albeit near the end of the draft.
First, they sent a future second-rounder to the Pacers to acquire No.