However, according to new Jazz president of basketball operations Austin Ainge, Utah will not take active steps to protect that pick next season. When asked in his introductory press conference on Monday if the Jazz would engage in the sort of minutes manipulation that lost them so many games last season,

The Jazz have hired Austin Ainge away from the Celtics as president of basketball operations. Ainge, the son of Jazz CEO Danny Ainge, had been with Boston since 2009.