The Utah Jazz are going through a tough time. After calls around the league mounted against their tanking-adjacent practices, the league offices have hit them with massive fines, and now, star trade acquisition Jaren Jackson Jr. has been sidelined for the entire year. Now, a key figure on the team has become involved in an argument with an established media figure.
Recently, after the fines were issued, ESPN insider Bobby Marks posted a comparison of the fines to the luxury tax in the previous CBA. Majority Jazz owner Ryan Smith fired back on social media afterwards, and now Marks has responded in an exchange that is only getting uglier with every moment.
When Jazz writer Andy Larsen pointed out that this kind of interaction wouldn’t happen between former ESPN insider Adrian Wojnarowski and GM Justin Zanik, who were known to have a good relationship, Marks made it clear that he would have said what he said:
“I’ll bet you my 401k I would. And I would have said the same thing if my son was the GM.”