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As the hours go by and the time draws near for the Jazz to do with their Nos. 3 and 12 picks in Thursday’s draft what they will, it becomes ever more pressure-packed for them, and all the more riveting for everybody waiting and watching.
Kevin O’Connor said a day ago that the Jazz had yet to make up their collective mind — "Still arguing," was the way he put it — about who to take with their first pick. And who they take with the first will determine who they take with the second.
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