The Utah Jazz should not have signed former Phoenix Suns center Drew Eubanks, according to Bleacher Report.
So when news hit that he would be declining his player option in the desert and searching for a new beginning, a collective sigh of relief was felt across the Valley.
Eubanks inked a two-year, $10 million deal with the Utah Jazz in free agency, which wasn't exactly met with high praise from places such as"The 27-year-old center has never played on anything but minimum contracts in his career to this point and wasn't particularly good for the Phoenix Suns last season. The Jazz already have Walker Kessler and John Collins at center and selected Duke big man Kyle Filipowski with the No. 32 overall pick in the 2024 NBA draft, too," wrote B/R.
"Bringing in Eubanks as a veteran insurance option near the end of free agency on a min deal would have been fine, but there's no reason why Utah should have given him a chunk of its cap space now. Even if the Jazz weren't going to be big spenders in free agency, they could have been a dumping ground for teams looking to offload money and draft picks.
Phoenix signed Mason Plumlee as a secondary option behind Jusuf Nurkic and also drafted center Oso Ighodaro in the second round.Donnie Druin is the Publisher for All Cardinals and Inside The Suns. Donnie moved to Arizona in 2012 and has been with Fan Nation since 2018. In college he won "Best Sports Column" in the state of Arizona for his section and has previously provided coverage for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona State Sun Devils.
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