The trade deadline has come and gone and the Utah Jazz were active as expected as they wound up netting Jae Crowder after dealing Rodney Hood to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Joe Johnson to the Sacramento Kings in a three-team trade.
Although Crowder has some work to do to get assimilated into a new system and to get back to his old ways of the 2016-17 season in Boston, both head coach Quin Snyder and general manager Dennis Lindsey made it clear that they’re excited about his acquisition.
As the Deseret News’ Eric Woodyard recently reported, below is a snippet of what Lindsey had to say about the former Cavalier and Celtic:
“Jae is someone we’ve long admired.