Draft week was busy for the Jazz, who celebrated the
official announcement of Carlos Boozer and
deron williams as members of the U.S. Olympic basketball team, selected Ohio State center Kosta Koufos in the first round of the
nba draft and were preparing to start contract extension talks with Williams.
The Jazz were the only NBA team to have two
players selected to the 12-man Olympic team. They didn't resist linking their past or present, either, arranging side-by-side pictures of Williams and John Stockton and Boozer and Karl Malone in USA Basketball jerseys for a news conference.
On draft night, the Jazz watched as nearly every big man they brought to Utah for a workout went to a team picking ahead of them.