<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">A year or so ago, the Jazz were walking around with cash coming out of theirpockets, Hummers and Jags on their shopping list. Now, they're just like most of the rest, squeezing every last dime in hopes of finding a rock-solid Jeep Grand Cherokee or maybe a reliable-running Toyoto 4Runner to fill their needs. Such is the difference between the haves and the have-nots in the NBA's summer free-agency market ? those under the league's team payroll salary cap with wads of dough to wave at the rides of their dreams, and those over the cap who must come to accept that all the dang thing does anyway is get you from the office to home and back. "What you understand," said Kevin O'Connor, the Jazz's senior vice president of basketball operations, "is if you don't have money under the cap, you receive a lot less phone calls." Last July, the Jazz had big bucks ? and a huge cellular bill. Mehmet Okur and Carlos Boozer landed in their laps quite quickly in the process, falling from shelf to shopping cart with barely a reach. This July, it's more like going to the grocery to buy water and batteries the day after the hurricane hit. O'Connor is in San Antonio today to talk with Seattle free agent Antonio Daniels, who may be the top point guard available ? but probably is not anything more than a midlevel-exception money kind of guy. </div> <div align="center">Source </div>
