He's worked a couple of basketball camps back East with his twin brother Jason, who plays for the New Jersey Nets. There was the late-June bachelor party in Las Vegas, followed by his July wedding.
Last Thursday, he was reading to kids at Rucker Park in Harlem, and on Monday he'll be at the Seeds of Peace International Camp in Maine, tackling the challenge of actually trying to teach teamwork to youths from Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Jordan and various locales throughout the conflicted Middle East.
Friday, though, Jazz big man Jarron Collins carved enough time out of his wild, wacky summer to re-sign a multi-year contract with the Jazz.
In the scheme of things, it's not a big deal, really. At least not when a life-altering event like marriage vows has dibs on one's time.
"After the wedding," said Collins, whose wife, Elsa, has a year to go at Columbia University Law School in New York, "it was like, 'OK, next thing.' And the next thing was my contract."
The Jazz have been rather busy themselves.
They did finally get around to giving Collins his deal, but only after taking care of much higher priorities like the mega-million-dollar offer sheets they delivered to Detroit Pistons center Mehmet Okur and Cleveland Cavaliers power forward Carlos Boozer.
That was just fine with Collins, a low-budget type who heard this message from Jazz basketball operations senior vice president Kevin O'Connor loud and clear: "Just be patient."
Collins suggested he did have other possibilities, including Golden State, where his former coach at Stanford, Mike Montgomery, is now the Warriors' head coach.
But, he said, "At the end of the day, I wanted to be back here in Utah."
The Jazz wanted Collins back as well, in large part because at the end of last season the former second-round draft choice developed into something of a harder-nosed player than he was earlier in his three-year NBA career.
A mini-flurry of uncharacteristic flagrant fouls will attest to that.
"Guys needed to know, if they were gonna go to the hole, who's gonna make a hard foul," said Collins, who admits he consciously decided to step up and be just that person.
"That's just a matter of me understanding my role on the team," he added. "So, whether it's giving the hard foul, or taking the charge, diving on the ground for a loose ball, whatever it takes . . . to get it done, that's what I (did)."
Because of it, he was rewarded. But only when time allowed.
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