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is he even going to play for Utah? can't he pull a diva move and refuse to show up? why would he in Utah, at his age and point of his career?
 
They traded a second round pick for Diaw. And why couldn't we do that? At some point is Griffin going to start doing his job?
 
They traded a second round pick for Diaw.

Utah had cap room to accept the contract without sending out anyone. Cavs would have had to trade a player under contract.
 
is he even going to play for Utah? can't he pull a diva move and refuse to show up? why would he in Utah, at his age and point of his career?

He could pull a diva move to be released but Utah has a pretty nice team where he would fit quite nicely and they have Gobert with whom he plays on the French national team. Think he might be interested to stay for a year.
 
As a fellow French guy, I would say this about Diaw: Make sure he wants to play for you if you trade for him. Everywhere he went, he either played great cuz he was having fun, Phoenix with Nash (International atmosphere in that team as well...they could talk abt soccer together at least) and San Antonio with his best friend Tony + Pop to keep him on track and motivated; or he played like a$$ cuz he didn't want to be there and you end up with an overweight cryptic player. "Babac" was raised with a very "do whatever you want to do" education and you can feel it when he is not happy.
To be fair and to highlight that I love this guy, he was and is always motivated when paying for his country!

Exactly. Cavs fans would have grown to hate Diaw by about the 20th game in the season. I love the guy, he was such a critical part of the Spurs success from 2012-15. But Diaw is about the most stubborn player I have ever seen. If you don't play a style he likes he just gets fat and checks out mentally. It's exactly what he did in 2015-16 once the Spurs started going to an offense featuring a lot of isolations with Leonard and Aldridge. Diaw will only play hard when the offense moves the ball a lot, it has to be a team like the seven seconds or less Suns, the early 2000s Kings, the 80s Celtics, 2012-15 Spurs, the current Warriors, someone like that. The Spurs badly wanted to draft him in 2003 and I'm glad they failed to, because he would have been a disaster playing with a team that dumped it to Duncan on the left block every possession. With two of the best iso players in the league in LeBron and Kyrie there is no way the Cavs should even begin to think about going away from those two enormous competitive advantages that just won them a title. So Diaw could never be a fit in Cleveland. He would pull the same crap he did in Atlanta and Charlotte, the same thing he did in 2015-16 with the Spurs.
 
In really interested in seeing the Jazz this year. They have a really nice collection of young wings (burk, Hayward, hood) with talented big men up front in gobert and favors. They also brought in an excellent defensive guard in George hill who should fit nicely with a solid playmaking wing like Hayward.

I'm interested to see how Dante Exum plays coming back from injury. If this team stays healthy I think they can make some real noise.

Forgot to mention Borris. I think he is a wild card for them.
 

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