Hawks News (7-30-03)

[HawkTodd]

Jazz continue to talk with Terry, sign Arroyo (7-30-03).

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/sports/6421878.htm

Published reports earlier this week that the Jazz were on the verge of signing Terry, who averaged 17.2 points and 7.4 assists for the Hawks last season, to an offer sheet were not true, O'Connor said.

The Jazz are interested, but nothing had been agreed to, O'Connor said. Even if Terry signed an offer sheet, Atlanta would be allowed to match it. Terry has indicated he'd like to stay in Atlanta.

The Jazz would like an experienced point guard to replace John Stockton, who retired after his 19th season. Arroyo, the Jazz's No. 3 point guard last season, has played just two years, and front-runner Raul Lopez missed last year with a blown out knee and has never played an NBA game.

A lineup of Lopez, Arroyo and rookie Maurice Williams, Utah's second-round draft pick, would leave the Jazz woefully inexperienced at point guard, so they haven't given up on Terry.

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THE DAILY (7-30-03).

http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_4728.shtml

Atlanta - Well, Jason Terry has an offer from the Jazz, but he just hasn't signed the offer sheet just yet. In yet another show of loyalty to the team that made him the 10th pick of the 1999 NBA Draft, Terry's agent has said he wants to hear from David McDavid or whoever else plans on buying the Hawks before making his final decision to tell the Jazz to write up an offer sheet.

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Jazz 'nowhere near' offer sheet to Terry (7-30-03).

http://www.ajc.com/print/content/epaper/ed...d661d900fb.html

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Clips match Maggette's deal: Jazz now turning their attention to Terry (7-30-03).

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Jul/07302003/sports/sports.asp

The Jazz, with $21 million to spend under the salary cap and a dwindling supply of free agents to lavish it on, can only wish they had those sort of decisions to make. Instead, O'Connor is left to negotiate with Hawks point guard Jason Terry -- another restricted free agent whose team has publicly said it would match any offer he receives -- and lesser free-agent talents, or troll league rosters for trade possibilities.

Terry, a 6-2 guard who averaged 17.2 points and 7.4 assists in his fourth season with the Hawks, has received an offer from the Jazz, his agent said Tuesday, though the two sides are not ready to formalize things, and start Atlanta's 15-day clock to match, by signing an offer sheet yet.

Agent Raymond Brothers did not return phone calls Tuesday, but told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that "the [Jazz's] offer is still there."

Terry, disappointed that Atlanta has not made a long-term offer, "has not decided to sign with Utah," said Brothers, who a day earlier suggested that Terry could sign an offer sheet with the Jazz this week. "He is weighing all his options."

Presumably, the holdup is the Hawks' pending sale to Texas auto dealer David McDavid, and Terry's uncertainty about Atlanta's commitment to building a winning team. The Hawks unloaded leading scorer Glenn Robinson last week essentially for nothing but salary-cap space.

O'Connor said he has been negotiating with Brothers but "there is no offer sheet. We're a long way from that point right now."

The Jazz are a long way from training camp, too. With eight players under contract for roughly $23 million, O'Connor has nine weeks to add at least four players and $11 million in salary to reach the league's minimums. He has pursued players who would have formed a decent starting lineup -- Maggette, Brand, Miller, Gilbert Arenas and Brad Miller -- but so far has nothing to show for it.

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Showtime, Part XXXI (7-30-03).

http://slate.msn.com/id/2086317/

A number of dynamics were at work here. The team's location always helped; until the NBA put a team in Phoenix, the Lakers were the league's only true Sun Belt franchise. (For the league's first predominantly African-American workforce, the St. Louis—and, later, Atlanta—Hawks were not in the Sun Belt. They were in the South, with all that entailed.)

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Leaving Atlanta: Glover shops for new team (7-29-03).

http://www.ajc.com/hawks/content/sports/ha...3/30glover.html

[Blunt91]

JT is being as patient as he can with this team to sign him and we are not showing him any love. The following statement from Hawks news just pissed me off more with management and David Mcfaked.

Atlanta - Well, Jason Terry has an offer from the Jazz, but he just hasn't signed the offer sheet just yet. In yet another show of loyalty to the team that made him the 10th pick of the 1999 NBA Draft, Terry's agent has said he wants to hear from David McDavid or whoever else plans on buying the Hawks before making his final decision to tell the Jazz to write up an offer sheet.

[Guest]

I think everyone here is getting alittle tired of this

teams bullshyt.First we draft a player for JT's benefit...

Then we dump Dog for cap space...Now we aren't even

signing any decent bench plaayer....Now they are bull

shitting around with JT....Theo is called "untouchable"

for whatever reason.

This is retarded.