Jazz Sign Terry to Offer Sheet Terry Salt Lake City --- Utah Jazz President Dennis Haslam announced Thursday, September 11, that the team has signed restricted free agent guard Jason Terry to an offer sheet. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Under the Collective Bargaining Agreement set forth by the National Basketball Association, the Atlanta Hawks will have 15 days to match the offer. The former University of Arizona All-American has spent the first four years of his career with the Hawks, averaging 16.1 points and 5.6 assists in 34.2 minutes per game and has played in 322 of a possible 326 since being drafted in the first round (10th pick overall) in the 1999 NBA Draft. He has connected on .849 percent from the free throw line for his career, including .887 percent in 2002-03 to rank 6th in the league. Terry scored 17.2 points, while shooting .428 percent from the field and a career-best 7.4 assists, good for 7th in the league during the 2002-03 season. He had his best season in 2000-01 when he averaged a career-high 19.7 points, shooting .436 percent from the field, including .395 percent from three-point range. He scored a career-high 46 points vs. the Dallas Mavericks on January 15, 2002 and served up a career-best 16 assists vs. the Los Angeles Lakers on March 25, 2003. He was named First Team All-America by the Associated Press as a senior at Arizona, also received First Team honors by the Sporting News and was honored as the National Player of the Year by Sports Illustrated, CBS and Basketball Times. He averaged 11.3 points during his four seasons with the Wildcats, including a career-best 21.9 as a senior. As a sophomore, he played on the 1997 NCAA Championship Team defeating Kentucky and helped lead the team to the NCAA's Elite Eight as a junior.
Whoa, the Hawks are going to SUCK!!! Man, that was there only offensive threat on the team. Who else is going to step up? They're going to the Denver Nuggets of 2002.... Damn...
I dont think atlanta cares at this point.. All i know is that i wont be surprised when Philips arena is like super empty... That arena is just going to be sad
I'm not sure I would even want to be Utah's next point guard! Those are some pretty BIG shoes to fill.....
yeah title should say sign to offer sheet ppl obviously think he's a utah jazz already with this title
Thanks for the info. Everyone should know that Jason Terry is a restricted free agent, so it should not be necessary to say he signed an offer sheet. That is all he could sign, except with the Hawks. He's been talking to Jazz for a month, and he's been threatening to sign with them for a month in an attempt to get Atlanta to give him what he wants. I don't believe Atlanta will match. Jason Terry is really not any better than Cat Mobley, but he will get more money than Mobley got. Atlanta is a mess, and the ownership can't sign Terry, at least I don't think they can.
What's the use of an undersized two guard whose name is not Allen Iverson? The Hawks should just let Terry walk. It's not like they are going anywhere even with him. They already have enough bad contracts on the book. Both SAR and Ratliff are going to make 10+ mils for the next two years and they are still paying Henderson 8+ mil a year.
hawks have 2 match, what do they have 2 lose? they need 2 match and then trade him, can't get nothing in return for JT.
The news people here in Atlanta are saying that the Hawks are ecstatic about this development because it's a very cheap price for a guard of Terry's abilities. The general consensus is that the Hawks will definitely match at that price and now will be able to keep Terry another three years whereas if he had waited until next year (where as an unrestricted free-agent) his price would have been too high.
i thought the signing of terry would be decided first on the future of the ownership of the franchise?
The Hawks will match. They have left Terry to twist on the vine just so they ("they" = the embattled management using AOL/Time-Warner's $$) can lowball him. Or, rather, not overpay? Edit: Although now after reading in ESPN Insider how Terry is trying to talk Atlanta out of matching the deal....now I'm less sure. Cat and Mo for SAR and our T-Mo #1 pick back? Sorry, sorry. Sorry.
