re: Pels closing in on Favors

Lofty signing if true, mates. Favours is a great fit

The brilliance of this move is we’re trading for that potential five next to Zion and getting to test out the fit for a season before making a determination moving forward.

He has a 1 year contract and was going to be waived, so I hope they only sent seconds....no first, unprotected or not.

Is Justin Holiday still a possible signing? Any ideas of who we may be going after to close out the cap space (if we dont make a etwann trade)

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It isnt the worst thing that our 5 wont be a 3 point shooter. He isnt great at shooting by any means, but he has a respectable midrange shot that requires attention. It isnt spreading the floor to the 3pt line, but spreading the floor nonetheless

As far as I can tell it’s official. Favors himself has already been quoted on Twitter with his comments about the move.

On a related note, how much space do we have now?

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Derrick Favors to The Athletic on his trade to the New Orleans Pelicans: I will miss Utah and I appreciate my time with the Jazz. Thank you to the fans. I'm ready and excited for the next chapter

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He has a 1 year contract and was going to be waived, so I hope they only sent seconds....no first, unprotected or not.

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I guess you don’t know how waiver works. Here’s a context to it.

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Waivers is a 48-hour period where teams are allowed to bid on a player’s contract, and if they win the bid, that player no longer enters unrestricted free agency. Instead, he signs with the team that placed the winning bid. The team making the bid has to be able to fit the player’s existing contract into its payroll or an unused salary-cap exception. This notably happened in 2000, when the Bulls acquired then waived Bruce Bowen as part of the Toni Kukoc trade. Bowen never cleared waivers. Instead, both the Knicks and Heat put in waiver claims on the defensive stopper. When two teams put a waiver claim in on the same player, the player goes to the worst team of the two options. The Heat were a half-game worse than the Knicks at that point — coincidentally, the only time the entire season Miami was worse than New York — so Bowen spent a year in Miami before his decade in San Antonio. If another team claims a player off waivers and wins the bid, they assume the remainder of his contract and the original team clears him off their payroll.

OK, so the player has cleared waivers. Now what? When this happens, his remaining salary is either reduced or totally wiped clean from his old team, depending on what has been agreed upon. This is where things get fun. Now, the player becomes a free agent, free to join any team interested in signing him.

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Pelicans would have to win the bid and beat out the worst teams. Who know what teams he would be on? Instead Utah asked Favors what team he wanted to be traded to. Derrick Favors chose the Pelicans and we gladly accepted giving them 2nd rounder. Utah won’t get any more than that because they just wanted to clear cap space for Bojan and wanted to help out Favors. If Utah would’ve waived him, I have a feeling he would have gone to the Knicks or Grizzlies due to them having worst records than the Pelicans.