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Carlos Austin Boozer, Jr. (born November 20, 1981 in Juneau, Alaska) currently plays professional basketball for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association. He played collegiately for Duke University, helping the team win the 2001 NCAA basketball tournament. He declared for the 2002 NBA Draft, relinquishing his final year of NCAA eligibility. Boozer was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the NBA draft. He signed with the Utah Jazz in 2004 as a restricted free agent for roughly 6 years and a total of $70 million. Boozer's signing with the Jazz was highly controversial because he was allowed to become a restricted free agent by the Cavaliers, who could have kept him under contract for only $695,000. The Cavaliers took a gamble by not re-signing Boozer in order to negotiate a longer contract; the Cavs and Boozer had already come to a "verbal agreement". But Boozer stated that no such agreement actually existed. Had the Cavaliers kept him for the said amount, Boozer would have become an unrestricted free agent after the 2004-2005 season. When the Jazz offered him a huge contract, which the Cavaliers couldn't have matched, Boozer signed with the Jazz, much to the dismay of Cavaliers fans everywhere, and two fans used the internet to lampoon the event, creating a cartoon likeness called Carlos Loozer.
In his first season with the Jazz, Boozer was criticized for his lack of toughness by his new team's owner, Larry Miller - and suffered an injury, missing almost half the season. He has yet to play a game in his second season with the Jazz, this time due to a strained hamstring, which he has been nursing at his newly purchased mansion in Los Angeles.
Boozer was selected as a member of the 2004 USA Olympics basketball team.
He wore #4 at Duke and #1 with the Cavaliers, and currently wears #5 for the Jazz.