Utah Jazz Free Agency: Potential Center Targets
By Ryan Aston
Continuing our series on NBA free agency, here are six centers hitting the market this summer that the Utah Jazz could target for big man depth behind Rudy Gobert and Derrick Favors.
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a hundred times here at Purple & Blues–the Utah Jazz are in need of depth. When injuries struck this season, the team was largely left without solutions to the problems that were created. Aside from the point guard position, no group suffered a depth shortfall like Utah’s big man rotation.
As much as we all love Jeff Withey–and believe me, I dug his defense as much as anybody–there’s a reason he was allowed to walk by the New Orleans Pelicans and only managed to get significant playing time with the Jazz when both Rudy Gobert and Derrick Favors were injured.
He’s not the answer to the team’s questions at back-up center.
The Jazz have hopes for Tibor Pleiss, but the German failed to stick with the main roster in 2015-16, spending most of the year fine-tuning his game with the D-League’s Idaho Stampede. Pleiss has Gobert-like size and exhibits potential as an offensive player, but whether or not he realizes that potential remains to be seen.
Ultimately, the answer could lie in free agency, where a litany of big men will be looking for paydays this summer. Here are six that the Jazz could potentially target as they look to fill out their roster.
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