Remix: Imagining a New Melody For the Jazz

After three years of disappointing results with roughly the same core, it is widely understood that the Jazz cannot simply “run it back” next season, whatever that means. There will be significant change. Exactly how...

Jazz Jersey Release a Perfect Metaphor For a Team Without Identity

The Utah Jazz’s botched rebranding really just represents the broader problem: nobody knows what the hell the Utah Jazz are right now.The Tribune’s Andy Larsen confirmed what most people suspected upon seeing the...

Snyder Moves On, But Philosophical Questions Linger

“Philosophical issues.”What began as just the latest in a series of euphemisms and code words being used to describe the Utah Jazz’s summer of discontent is now an epitaph carved into the stone where an era of...

Let’s Talk This Out

Scene: Interior, a modestly furnished therapist’s office with a desk, chair, couch and a window. A middle-aged man whose hair is greying at the temples sits at the desk wearing a tweed blazer with elbow pads, scrolling...

The Way We Play Here: Searching for Howie

Scoring an invitation to Monday night hoops in the gym on my Brooklyn block was a really big deal. I had figured out that the Jewish temple had a court in the basement because I had seen guys coming and going with basketballs the...

Core Rotation Strength Comparison Ahead of West Playoffs

The notion that depth doesn’t matter after game 82 is just plain wrong. Virtually every deep playoff run by any team features big moments from key reserves. Whether it’s foul trouble, untimely injuries or just starter...

Salt City Seven: Bring On Dallas, Season Wrap Numbers, Confidence

Every Monday during the regular season, the week here at SCH begins with the Salt City Seven: seven regular features that let us relive the biggest moments, key performances and hot issues in Jazzland from various angles. Check...

Salt City Seven: Late Execution, Bogey’s Quiet Confidence, Final Week & More

Every Monday during the regular season, the week here at SCH begins with the Salt City Seven: seven regular features that let us relive the biggest moments, key performances and hot issues in Jazzland from various angles. Check...

Salt City Seven: More Injuries, More Gobert-Mitchell Smoke, More Ls Cloud the Jazz’s Forecast

Every Monday during the regular season, the week here at SCH begins with the Salt City Seven: seven regular features that let us relive the biggest moments, key performances and hot issues in Jazzland from various angles. Check...

Salt City Seven: Bench Boost, Can Utah Climb to 3rd, Gobert on Defense & More

Every Monday during the regular season, the week here at SCH begins with the Salt City Seven: seven regular features that let us relive the biggest moments, key performances and hot issues in Jazzland from various angles. Check...