If you were a Utah Jazz fan tuning into Thursday night’s NBA Draft, you seemingly didn’t have a lot to look forward to. Although the Mike Conley trade has catapulted the team into the conversation of title contention, a byproduct of the deal was that it found itself without a first-round selection.
To say that the lack of a pick made for boring TV is putting it lightly. Jazz nation was forced to stand idly by as Adam Silver and, later, deputy commissioner Mark Tatum marched up to the podium to talk about some other team drafting the next player you probably didn’t care about.