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Utah Jazz talked Kirilenko for McGrady trade
By Tim Buckley

Deseret News

Published: Saturday, July 4, 2009 12:00 a.m. MDT
The Jazz, it's been learned and confirmed, engaged in recent trade talk with
the Houston Rockets about a possible deal that would have brought seven-time
NBA All-Star swingman Tracy McGrady to Utah for small forward Andrei
Kirilenko.

The Jazz, however, have no current desire to make the trade — for reasons
including, but not necessarily limited to, McGrady's health situation and
contract status.

McGrady, 30, underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee in May of 2008
and microfracture surgery on the same problematic knee late last February.
He also has a history of back problems, played just 35 games last season,
may or may not be able to play more than that next season and is the subject
of frequent trade rumors.

At $23.23 million in the final year of his existing contract, McGrady also
will be the NBA's highest-paid player next season.

Kirilenko, 28 and a one-time All-Star small forward, is due $16.44 million
in 2009-10 — meaning one or more other players would have to be included to
make such a swap conform to NBA trade rules, which call for next season's
salaries to match within 25 percent.

And unless the Jazz included enough additional salary in such a trade to
trump McGrady's number, Utah — as its payroll stands now — would be taking
on added luxury-tax burden.

But Kirilenko also is due about $17.8 million in 2010-11 — which means the
Jazz, if they did somehow send enough salary to Houston to top McGrady's
figure, could save about $18 million over the next two years by making such
a deal.

The trade talk evidently was conducted quite quietly.

"I know nothing about it," said Kirilenko's agent, Marc Fleisher, who met
with Jazz general manager Kevin O'Connor earlier this week to discuss the
contract situation of another his clients, starting center Mehmet Okur. "I
haven't heard from anybody in the Jazz office that they're going to trade
Andrei. . . . They've given me no indication of that."