Still, given all the drama surrounding Bailey's selection on Draft night and the questions about whether the Jazz were one of the teams Bailey's manager, Omar Cooper, told not to take him under threat of him not reporting,

The decision by the Utah Jazz to hire the son of rookie forward Ace Bailey's manager as a guest coach for Summer League raised some eyebrows around the NBA, and the team quickly reversed course.

Ace Bailey's NBA career got off to a rocky start, and not just on the court. The Rutgers product turned plenty of heads when he declined to work out for multiple lottery teams, and his expression when the Utah Jazz drafted him said a thousand words.