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How a Pokemon strategy could help the Utah Jazz learn roster construction

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I realize the title of this article may sound crazy, and you’re fair to react that way. The Utah Jazz are a professional basketball team in the NBA, and Pokemon is a Japan-based media powerhouse born behind the idea of imaginary creatures that fight each other to please their human overlords. What could these two possibly have to do with each other?

Well, during my downtime, I’ve been playing plenty of Pokemon on my trusty Nintendo 3DS. While traveling through the Unova Region, the Pokemon trainer half of my brain collided with the delusional Jazz fan half, thus spawning a flicker of inspiration that boils down to this simple statement.