Jazz likely won't camp with 5 picks

Utah could trade, take international player, keep him overseas

By Tim Buckley
Deseret Morning News

The Jazz currently own five selections in the June 28 NBA Draft.
Two come in the first round. The exact position of one of those will be determined in Tuesday's draft lottery and could fall anywhere from No. 1 overall to No. 7. The other is No. 27 and originally belonged to Dallas before the Jazz acquired it in a draft-night swap that sent 2004 first-round pick Pavel Podkolzin to the Mavericks.
Three others fall in the second round, at Nos. 34, 51 and 60 overall.
But don't necessarily expect the Jazz to use all five on picks that will be in training camp come October.
"That's not likely," said Kevin O'Connor, the Jazz's basketball operations senior vice president.
Instead, the Jazz could trade away one or more of their picks. Another option is to draft an international player who is not brought over right away, much like what happened with forward Andrei Kirilenko after he was drafted in 1999.

I want that #27 and #34 pick!

I know Kurt Thomas has more value but in this deep draft I would do that trade!

They could use a bigman who plays defense off since Boozer doesn't

[Edited by - gunsnewing on 05/23/2005 09:15:01]

How about KT, Sweets, and the 54 for Harpring, Gordon and the 27 and 34