Ryan Smith asked bizarre but necessary question to Cameron Boozer

Ever since the Utah Jazz got the No.2 pick, there's been plenty of hoopla about AJ Dybantsa or Darryn Peterson becoming a Jazzman. While that does seem like how the cookie will crumble, we shouldn't brush Cameron Boozer aside. Not just because of how talented he is, but because of his dad's ties to the Jazz.

Jazz owner Ryan Smith is quite aware of this and asked Cameron about how he compares to his father, albeit in an off-putting fashion.

Well, that's one way of putting things bluntly...

Regardless, it's definitely an elephant in the room that Smith and the Jazz can't ignore especially since Carlos works for the team. The prospect of Cameron following in almost the exact same footsteps as his dad is intriguing, but many will compare their legacies if the young prospect were to join Utah.

There's no way of telling how Cameron will compare to Carlos, but do keep in mind that Carlos was a draft steal, as he didn't have nearly the same hype then that Cameron does now. Among Carlos' accomplishments was being a two-time All-Star, one-time All-NBA, and a gold medalist.

That's a pretty impressive pedigree even if Carlos didn't make the Hall of Fame (he kind of did by proxy), so Cameron definitely would have a bar to clear if the Jazz draft him. Honestly, that same bar would be there regardless of who he plays for.

Anyway, Smith asked that question because the Jazz plan to be as good as possible next season. Cameron is talented enough that Utah takes him, they would anticipate multiple lengthy playoff runs. If he truly is better than his dad, the Jazz should expect to turn themselves into a perennial title contender.

Maybe Smith shouldn't have been so upfront, but evidently he wanted to rip off that band-aid.

Though Carlos Boozer wasn't primarily responsible for that WCF trip

Boozer definitely played a role on those Jazz teams from the mid-to-late 2000s, but anyone who watched them knows he wasn't the one who took them that far. That was Deron Williams. In fact, while Boozer put up some pretty awesome numbers for those teams, we shouldn't discount the roles Andrei Kirilenko, Mehmet Okur, Paul Millsap, and Matt Harpring played.

Not to mention there's an argument that Utah made it that far because the stars aligned for them. They beat the Houston Rockets in the first round, then had the fortune of going up against the eighth-seeded Golden State Warriors. That may not have been the case if the Dallas Mavericks had been their opponent.

Those Jazz teams were frisky and weren't too far off from title contention, but were never quite at that level, though pretty much every contender hated playing against them during that time period.

There's no telling how Cameron will ocmare to Carlos, but the latter has such a strong legacy that if the former proves to be better, he could be a real game-changer, whether it be for Utah or anyone else.

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