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Utah Jazz: The 2018 Kyrylo Fesenko Awards For Radness In Jazzdom

By Ryan Aston

OAKLAND, CA - JANUARY 30: Kyrylo Fesenko #44 of the Utah Jazz gets ready to take on the Golden State Warriors on January 30, 2011 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. Copyright 2011 NBAE (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)
OAKLAND, CA - JANUARY 30: Kyrylo Fesenko #44 of the Utah Jazz gets ready to take on the Golden State Warriors on January 30, 2011 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. Copyright 2011 NBAE (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN – APRIL 22: Rodney Hood #1 of the Cleveland Cavaliers looks on during game four of the NBA Playoffs against the Indiana Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on April 22, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Cavaliers won 104-100. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images) /

Raja Bell honorary trophy for moping, then heading to Cleveland

The Fesenko goes to… Rodney Hood.

I definitely didn’t see this one coming.

After Gordon Hayward bolted for Beantown last summer, it was more or less preordained that Rodney Hood would become the go-to guy for the Jazz. The team even sent Johnnie Bryant to run him through the same regimen that helped Hayward become an All-Star last season to prepare him for top billing.

It’s a role he never really got a handle on. Instead, he was supplanted in the starting five by Mitchell, after which he got mopey and became determined to find new digs.

Now, he’s gone from having what looked to be a career year in Utah to being the fifth option in the Cleveland Cavaliers offense and something of an afterthought.

Ouch.

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