Post by Andrei Kirilenko on Apr 28, 2014 19:17:23 GMT
Salt Lake City
After a controversial move by GM Josh Barber, sentiments around the league towards the Utah Jazz are diminishing rapidly. In what can only be described as a stroke of genius, Barber traded away a 2016 2nd round pick to clear roughly $12 million in cap space. And then he cut the team's best player.
Fan reaction was initially overwhelmingly negative, but smarter folk caught on quickly. Barber wasn't simply releasing Lance Stephenson; he was trying to circumvent off-season free agency. Skeptics were either too slow to realize what Barber was doing or too salty to appreciate what some sources have dubbed as "the best piece of GMing in D5 history." When we asked Barber about his motives, he had this to say:
"What? Of course I was circumventing free agency. F@#& the rules."
As if merely attempting the scheme was not enough, haters soon had an entire mouthful of salt when Stephenson ultimately announced his return to the Jazz late yesterday evening. The saltiest of the haters called the move "very questionable" and "the wrong choice." Camera-phones even caught GM Alex English of the Nuggets in a Denver strip club at 4 am last night, high on marijuana, rolling around the floor in his own feces, and emphatically questioning passersby "WHERE HAS MY LANCE GONE?"
"We like being the bad boys. There's a lot of salt to go around in Salt Lake City, and it seems like every time a new team come to town, they leave with a belly full. These [expletives] gonna have to watch their cholesterol."
There's no doubt that Waiters and Stephenson highlight this new "Bad Boy" era in Utah. The two have combined for 78 technical fouls this season, setting a new league record.