(Photo by Streeter Lecka | BIG3/Getty Images) Former Jazz center Al Jefferson is now playing for the Triplets team in the BIG3 basketball league alongside fellow former Jazz player Joe Johnson. Jefferson said he "was headed down that road of being labeled as a good player on a bad team. And [the Jazz] gave me a new life."
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