Jazz general manager Justin Zanik dished on the Jazz — why the team made trades at this deadline, when they'll make a trade for a star, what they'll do to keep the veterans happy, and the role of the new acquisitions.
Jazz GM Justin Zanik explains why the Jazz made the deadline trades, on keeping his core happy, and more General Manager Justin Zanik discusses the Utah Jazz's trade deadline deals during a news conference on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024.After two trade deadline moves that got mixed reviews from fans, Utah Jazz general manager Justin Zanik spent some time with reporters on Saturday morning, explaining the front office’s decision-making and what to expect from the team’s thinking moving forward.
“This particular trade deadline, when you look at all the other various trades, there wasn’t an impact player available that moves the needle in our timeline. “But we’re not going to do it just so people feel better for a year or two. There’s always an opportunity cost, so you give up assets to get what you want, you want to make the appropriate bet. Making bets is part of this, some of them work out, some of them don’t.
“Lauri’s development was a great, great thing for this organization. A great thing for him. Moving from a very good starter to All-Star starter to a fringe All-NBA player just entering his prime at 26, and a player that you can easily build around because he’s so easy to play with. “Where our team is, it’s a growing team that we need to add to. But we need to add to it in the appropriate place, not just because we want to add a good player who’s only going to be with us for a couple of years. We need to be able to develop this so it’s sustainable and we have all the flexibility and assets to be able to do that. We just need the opportunities to present themselves.
This is the second kind of calibration around our core, and sometimes that takes time. I wish that it was quick and then all of a sudden we have a long and prosperous run right now. We’ll do that in a second. It’s just not available. And I’m not going to compromise the long-term joy and success because we want to avoid short-term pain and short-term disappointment.
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