The Utah Jazz were all-in on winning a title 10 years ago. After making the conference finals in 2007, they ran back the same core of Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer three more years.
They never made it back to the conference finals, and their supporting cast around Williams was starting to wane. Boozer was a unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2010, and was seeking a max contract. Mehmet Okur had suffered a devastating achilles tear in the opening round of the playoffs, and Andrei Kirilenko only had one year left on his max contract that he never lived up to.