Jazz Motivated To Trade Donovan Mitchell Before Start Of Training Camp
The Utah Jazz and New York Knicks are widely expected to eventually agree to a Donovan Mitchell trade, but the two sides continue to haggle over the terms. The Jazz traded Patrick Beverley to the Los Angeles Lakers this week in what was their first major move after trading Rudy Gobert. While Utah still wants a high asking price, they appear to prefer a resolution before training camp.
"The Jazz are beginning their business," said Brian Windhorst on his podcast. "They made their first post-Gobert move earlier this week when they traded Patrick Beverley to the Lakers.
"[Tim] MacMahon, you said I believe last week that you thought that the Jazz would make a Donovan Mitchell trade before the [regular season] opener. And it sounds to me in talking to people around the league that the Jazz want to try to go even sooner than that. They want to go before training camp."
"Of course," said MacMahon.
The Jazz have a first-time head coach in Will Hardy while they would also like to be in the running to have the best odds in next year's draft.
"It does sound as I talk to folks in the league that the Jazz are trying to apply the gas here. To try to juice the offer, especially juice the offer from the New York Knicks."
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, Khareem Sudlow
