Here’s an update on the Jazz’s trade deadline efforts, with that deadline just three days away.
Word from nearly everyone I talk to is that the Jazz are being relatively aggressive this trade deadline, trying to get something done to improve the team.
The two biggest deadline deals in Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey’s tenure — Rodney Hood for Jae Crowder and Enes Kanter for a first-round pick — have been about getting something of value for expiring contracts that the team was unsure they’d re-sign. There’s a similar sense on this trade deadline, though the difference is that Hood and Kanter were still on their rookie deals, meaning that their impending free agency was to be restricted, not unrestricted.