If you get squeamish at the sight of disheartening basketball realizations, now would be the time to look away — back in February of 2018, the Utah Jazz acquired Derrick Rose in a three-team trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Sacramento Kings.
The reason for such a move?
To (eventually) pave the way for Mike Conley to (finally) make his way to Utah.
Conley will miss his 20th game of the season tonight with “right knee soreness” as the Jazz make their way to Denver to take on the Nuggets, but still — to date, though by no means abysmal, his season averages aren’t turning any heads: 12.