Well, let's begin our offseason outlooks here with the Utah Jazz and the Jazz wonderful

regular season, the sort of regular season that is really as good as any team could have.

Essentially, when you look at some of the advanced numbers, they fell off late with some

of the injuries, but obviously a team that is poised to be very solid during the regular

season, if they have their whole group and if they can keep it together, also had a ton

of flaws that emerged in the playoffs, both on defense where they don't really have many

good perimeter defenders and Rudy Govera can get spaced out and maybe to a lesser extent

on offense going against the switches that they did largely score pretty well against the

Clippers overall.

So I think probably the place to start here is just with the financial situation for

this team.

Yeah, I think that is a very good place to start and there are a few non-guarantees that

are kind of on the margins, but a good rough assumption for the Jazz is that they are right

around with the luxury tax line.

If you don't count anything for Mike Conley, so that includes the 30th pick, they have

the last pick of the first round, they could theoretically, like there are ways that they

could clear a little bit, they have some non-guarantees which we'll talk about later,

but roughly that's the line.

So that means any money that they give to Mike Conley, to George Neighaing, that pushes

them over the tax and it appears that owner Ryan Smith, new owner, Ryan Smith, is willing

to pay the tax, but as we've discussed so many times in the show, there are a lot of different

thresholds here and where that line is because for Conley, the years and the dollars matter.

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