Sources: Rookie Bailey, rep part after draft drama

Utah Jazz rookie guardant Ace Bailey has parted ways with manager Omar Cooper and is successful the process of getting caller representation, sources confirmed to ESPN connected Wednesday.

Bailey, the No. 5 wide prime by the Jazz, made this determination successful the aftermath of a peculiar draught process that included -- arsenic ESPN reported successful June -- his representatives telling a squad wrong the apical 5 of the draught that they didn't privation it to prime Bailey and that helium wouldn't study if it did.

At the time, the content was that Bailey and his squad was hoping to usher him to the Washington Wizards, who had the sixth wide pick. But Utah -- successful the archetypal draught helmed by recently hired president of hoops operations Austin Ainge -- took Bailey fifth, opening up a little model wherever it was unclear whether helium would report.

The erstwhile Rutgers prima coiled up reporting without incidental to the Jazz and took portion successful summertime league games with the franchise.

Bailey averaged 17.6 points and 7.2 rebounds per crippled for Rutgers and is expected to vie for a starting spot successful Jazz manager Will Hardy's lineup. Bailey is simply a erstwhile precocious schoolhouse teammate of Dallas Mavericks guardant and No. 1 wide prime Cooper Flagg astatine Montverde High School successful Florida.

The Athletic archetypal reported connected Bailey's determination to portion with Cooper.