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Hours before Taurean Prince briefly wore a Jazz cap, Young Living Grand International Convention attendees completed Thursday afternoon's activities at Vivint Smart Home Arena.

The Jazz chose the right year to skip their traditional NBA draft party in the building, considering they traded their first-round pick the day before in a three-team deal that will bring veteran guard George Hill from Indiana to Utah. Pre-draft trades require subsequent league approval, so Prince became one of several players who officially were picked by teams other than their eventual landing spots, explaining why Prince was introduced as a Jazzman.

In any case, the work of the arena's Lehi-based tenant creates an interesting contrast with the Jazz's strategy of suddenly getting older this week. I'm not knocking wellness, fitness and vitality here. Essential oils and anti-aging products have their merits. But the Jazz definitely did not need to make themselves any younger, and the 30-year-old Hill is a nice pickup. He's well worth the expense of the No. 12 pick and whatever degree of hope that comes with any first-round arrival.

It would have made a good story if Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey, a Baylor University alumnus, had taken Prince — a teammate of Lindsey's son, Jake — for his own team, instead of Atlanta. That's my only regret of an evening when the Jazz's first selection of No. 52 in the second round came more than four hours into the proceedings.

Naturally, I'm reserving the right to strike that sentence if Prince becomes another Kawhi Leonard. San Antonio traded Hill to Indiana in 2011 for the No. 15 pick and used it to take Leonard, who followed the likes of Enes Kanter, Jimmer Fredette and Alec Burks in that draft and has become of the NBA's best players.

That's not happening with the latest trade involving Hill, I'm convinced. Prince is one of several first-round picks who seemed like a reach. Washington's Dejounte Murray, a player the Jazz were said to like, slid all the way to San Antonio at No. 29. As for conventional choices the Jazz may have made, former University of Utah center Jakob Poeltl (No. 9) and Gonzaga's Domantas Sabonis (No. 11) were off the board prior to their scheduled selection.

Those short-circuited picks should eliminate most of the remorse Jazz fans may have had about the trade, even if the move took away the annual fun, anticipation and debate of draft night.

The Jazz staged an uneventful draft party in 2012, when their first-round pick was lost via the trade that brought Al Jefferson to Utah the previous summer. They took guard Kevin Murphy (No. 47) in the second round. Murphy played a total of 52 minutes for the Jazz before launching a career in Europe.

One or more of the players the Jazz grabbed in Thursday's second round should have more impact than Murphy at Vivint, although their best moments may come at Salt Lake Community College as members of the D-League Salt Lake City Stars. They'll also help stock the host entry in the Utah Jazz Summer League next month, facing Philadelphia's Ben Simmons, Boston's Jaylen Brown and other notable first-rounders.

Lindsey and the rest of the Jazz's draft operatives watched the night's events unfold from the second floor of the Zions Bank Basketball Center. The whiteboard in the players' lounge, temporarily infiltrated by media members, maintained the integrity of the process by listing Prince next to the Jazz logo.

But he'll play at Vivint only once a year with the Hawks, while Hill appears regularly. Hill should blend in well enough to produce immediate results from the Jazz's efforts this week. Young Living can keep doing its thing to ward off aging, but the Jazz's extreme youth movement had lasted too long.

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