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Utah Jazz: The ideal man to be executive vice president

Utah Jazz front office candidate Shane Battier (Photo by Lance King/Getty Images)

The Utah Jazz should be making every possible effort to hire Shane Battier.

NBA insider Brian Windhorst of ESPN mentioned during his podcast last week that Shane Battier, a former champion at both the college and pro level, is now a candidate to join the Utah Jazz front office.

Windhorst suggested there are implications in the timing of the Battier-to-Utah chatter:

“He resigned from the [Miami Heat] front office two weeks ago in kind of a surprising move because he was regarded as a guy who might be with the Heat for a long time.