Sean May, Ben Wallace, etc. - their are decent/good enough backup 4/5 options emerging besides Big Baby, so maybe Utah tries to pick up one of them on the cheap and then start shopping Boozer’s contract from there.

Or not.

is because they don’t have to until Friday. It isn’t about some stupid ‘house hunting’ message to Milsap, it’s about business.

Hilarious. And a lot more insightful than you are getting credit for.

Maybe KP is just trying to get Millsap and the rest of the Jazz team and management’s heads to explode? Or maybe I’m just bored, too.

They all three have slightly different strengths which would fill in their teams needs differently. None, however is vastly better than the others. Boozer certainly has been more of a scorer in the past than the other two.

Boozer = Offense, excellent shooter, suspect defense
Lee= Offense, playmaker, suspect defense
Millsap= Defender, rebounder, not a great shooter, gets to the rim, however

Millsap fills our needs well, while Lee and Boozer seem to be more suited to Utah/ NY. I would love to keep Millsap, if possible.

Everyone knows that Utah is desperate to move him, so nobody wants to offer much of anything. By tomorrow night, or Friday, anyone that actually wants him will know that the time is getting short and they have to make their final, real offer.

I’m sure the Blazers are talking to a few people (NJ, Phoenix, Minn, Chicago) about potential deals involving our cap space.

1.) The Jazz benefit from making the Blazers wait as long as possible before they announce if they’ll match the offer. In the meantime, Portland’s cap space is essentially frozen, preventing them from locking in other deals.

2.) They have until the trade deadline to make a deal. Despite what “rumors” say, teams will make decisions that are in their OWN best interest. If OKC is presented with a deal that they like, you can bet they’ll help out the Jazz to get it done. Likewise for Portland.

3.) Both sides (Boozer and the Jazz) have already made several claims as to wanting to end their relationship.

they are waiting as long as they can so that the blazers cant do anything until Milsap is resigned.

they are also waiting because they are trying to see the likelihood of being able to trade boozer

I took a look at Forbes’ numbers again from 2007-08. According to their data, Utah had revenue of $119 million in 2007-08 and an operating income of $8.8 million. They had about $58.9 million in player salaries to pay, no luxury tax and (an assumed figure) of $51.3 in non-player-salary expenses.

So let’s extrapolate to 2009-10. Let’s assume that they keep Boozer for the entire year and match the offer sheet to Millsap. Where do they figure to be financially?

Let’s start by assuming their revenue is exactly that same. Well, not exactly – they’ll lose $3 million by being over the luxury tax (that’s an assumed amount that will go out to teams next summer who are over the tax threshold). So they’re at $116 million in revenue.

Let’s also assume that non-player-salary expenses stay at that $51.3 million figure. So $116 minus $51.3 leaves $64.7 million. But we have to subtract $81.5 million in salary and $11.5 million in luxury tax. Leaving them with an operating loss of <$28.3 million>.

If they match for Millsap, that’s what they’re looking at. If they want to trade Boozer for comparable talent (and salary), they’re probably still looking at a <$23 million> loss if the other team is above the cap, since the other team would have to send back about $10 million in order to fit Boozer’s salary.

This is why I believe that although they want to match for Millsap, they won’t. Waiting for some magical team with $13 million in cap room to come out of the blue in February to take Boozer off their hands is completely unrealistic.

Now they might trade Boozer for some salary and some relief which could bring the loss down $10 million or so. But I think they’ll be stuck with an 8 figure deficit for the year if they match Millsap.