Utah Jazz CEO Danny Ainge speaks throughout an end-of-season press convention on the Zions Financial institution Basketball Campus in Salt Lake Metropolis on Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Spenser Heaps, Deseret Information
A lot was made final week of the distinctive provide sheet that the Utah Jazz signed Philadelphia 76ers massive man Paul Reed to earlier than Philadelphia finally matched it.
On Thursday, The Athletic’s John Hollinger ranked it because the nerdiest transfer of all the NBA offseason.
As has been broadly reported, the Jazz signed Reed to a suggestion that had simply subsequent season assured, however could be assured for 2 extra seasons if the workforce he was on makes the second spherical of the playoffs subsequent season.
With the place the 2 franchises are, there’s little query that Philadelphia is extra prone to make the second spherical of the playoffs subsequent season, so Utah was attempting to place Philadelphia in a troublesome spot if it needed to match the provide.
Calling the transfer “a transparent winner for the nerdiest,” Hollinger wrote that “Reed’s deal is my favourite nerd transfer of the summer time as a result of it’s a one-off that's unlikely to be copied a lot in future years.”
Hollinger wrote that such a suggestion sheet gained’t doubtless be repeated too usually for 2 causes. “First, the differential between the Sixers’ ambitions and Utah’s gained’t at all times be in play,” he wrote, and “Second, it’s extremely uncommon for a suggestion sheet to comprise non-guaranteed cash of any type, and realistically it might solely occur to a participant like Reed, who's projected to play a comparatively minor function.”