As veteran players Ed Davis and Jeff Green were officially introduced Friday morning as new members of the Jazz, each said his rationale for choosing Utah from among their suitors was actually pretty simple.
“At this stage of my career, I wanted to play on a veteran team, a team that has a chance to contend for a title at the end of the year,” Davis said. “That was the main thing for me.”
“Same,” added Green. “With the personnel that they were building on this team, the opportunity to win was most important.”
Davis agreed to a deal with the Jazz on the opening day of free agency, accepting the team’s offer of the “room midlevel exception.