SALT LAKE CITY — For almost three weeks now, the news has been out that the Utah Jazz agreed to free-agent deals with Ed Davis, Jeff Green and Emmanuel Mudiay.
On Saturday morning, the deals finally became official, as the team announced the signings.
What took so long? The timing came down to how the Jazz maneuvered the salary cap. Davis was reportedly signed using a mechanism called the room midlevel exception, while Green and Mudiay were reportedly signed to minimum contracts (terms of the deals were not officially disclosed), meaning Utah could go over the salary cap to make the signings work.