Miami GM uncomfortable with Boozer sweet talk

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Miami GM uncomfortable with Boozer sweet talk

"Upset Utah Jazz fans apparently aren't the only ones who felt uneasy with all the eye-batting and flirting that Carlos Boozer recently did in hopes of wooing Miami to trade for him.

 

Heat general manager Pat Riley was also a bit turned off by the public display of affection for Miami that Boozer showed shortly after opting into the final year of his contract with the Jazz.

 

"I wasn't really comfortable with it," Heat general manager told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Tuesday.

 

Though he later claimed on Chicago radio to be misquoted and misunderstood, Boozer was quoted last month as saying that playing in Miami, his offseason home, would be his first choice for the upcoming year. He made similar overtures this summer to playing for the Bulls.

 

"There are so many reasons I feel at home here, and I would love to be part of the Heat organization," Boozer told the Miami Herald in mid-July. "We first came here for the tax reasons and fell in love with it. We love the palm trees, the laid-back attitude, the sun, quality of life. It's like paradise here.

 

"I'm real close to some of the guys," he added. "Dwyane (Wade) and I started to get close at the Athens Olympics in 2004, and I'd love to play on this team."

 

Boozer also claimed that the luxury-tax-burdened Jazz would shop him around the league this summer and that he wasn't part of the franchise's future plans.

 

Some reports claimed the Jazz and Heat were on the verge of making a deal — a popular one alleged that Udonis Haslem would have been sent to Utah, with Dorell Wright going to Memphis in a three-team swap — but Riley told Miami media on Tuesday that that wasn't necessarily the case."

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