SALT LAKE CITY — A trade for Mike Conley, grabbing Bojan Bogdanovic off the free-agent market, adding Ed Davis and Jeff Green. These were all moves by the Utah Jazz last summer that were heralded throughout the NBA community.
The Jazz were keeping their core and bolstering it with experience and skill. The engineering the front office did with the roster over the summer, along with the votes of confidence in extending Quin Snyder’s contract as head coach and Joe Ingles’ contract with the team, had many believing that at the very least, the Jazz were one of a handful of teams that could contend for the 2019-20 NBA title.