Derrick Favors

Jazz Break into Big Three Territory
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Jazz Break into Big Three Territory

September 9th, 2015 | by Clint Johnson
Sports Illustrated’s Ben Golliver and Rob Mahoney recently released their annual Top NBA Players for the upcoming season, and one of the greatest surprises is embedded so deeply that few but Utah Jazz fans are likely to see...
End of Summer Odds Update for the 2015-16 NBA Season
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End of Summer Odds Update for the 2015-16 NBA Season

September 9th, 2015 | by Sponsored Content
The landscape of the NBA could be very different this time next year. Teams that were on the outside looking in have now etched their way back into contention, while others have fallen deeper into irrelevance. The 2015 offseason...
Derrick Favors is Really, Really Good
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Derrick Favors is Really, Really Good

September 8th, 2015 | by David J Smith
To Utah Jazz faithful, the title of this post may seem like stating the obvious. Derrick Favors indeed is very good. Nothing shocking here. Yet recent events have caused one to feel that the rest of the NBA seems to be less...
Examining Tibor Pleiss’s Eurobasket Performance Against Serbia
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Examining Tibor Pleiss’s Eurobasket Performance Against Serbia

September 7th, 2015 | by Dakota Schmidt
For most Jazz fans, the first opportunity that they have to get a look at newly signed 7’2 center Tibor Pleiss is during Eurobasket 2015. Playing with the German squad alongside the likes of Dennis Schroder and Dirk Nowitzki,...
Future Finance Watch Part II: 2017-18
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Future Finance Watch Part II: 2017-18

September 7th, 2015 | by Dan Clayton
Let’s continue our look ahead into the Jazz’s dozens of contingency options and an ever-changing cap sheet. As covered in part one of this two-part look, Utah has definitely given itself a number of different...
Future Finance Watch Part I: This Season and Next
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Future Finance Watch Part I: This Season and Next

September 5th, 2015 | by Dan Clayton
Cap space doesn’t score buckets, and financial flexibility has never hoisted a Larry O’Brien Trophy. The value of keeping financial doors open is limited to the sum of what teams are able to do in leveraging that...
Jimbo’s Mailbag – Improving the Jazz Game Experience
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Jimbo’s Mailbag – Improving the Jazz Game Experience

September 4th, 2015 | by Jimbo Rudding
Here at Salt City Hoops, we’re occasionally accused of being too analytical. Basketball is a fun sport, they say, and we’re being too objective about it. Jumbo Rudding, on the other hand, is not analytical. He is zany. He...
Player to Watch: Rodney Hood
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Player to Watch: Rodney Hood

September 2nd, 2015 | by David J Smith
The NBA off-season, especially the months of August and September, are always interesting. With little news out there — especially after the joy that is June and July — it can sometimes be a struggle for basketball...
Organic Cotton: How Bryce Might Be Utah’s Best Fit at PG
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Organic Cotton: How Bryce Might Be Utah’s Best Fit at PG

September 1st, 2015 | by Ben Dowsett
It seems strange to label any point guard on Utah’s roster a forgotten man given all the attention paid to the position this summer, but that’s just what Bryce Cotton has become to a degree. Despite a strong close to the...
5 on 5: Offseason in the Rear View Mirror
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5 on 5: Offseason in the Rear View Mirror

August 28th, 2015 | by Aaron Hefner
1. On a scale of 1 – 10 (1 being absolutely no agreement and 10 being complete agreement), how closely do you agree with the front office’s decisions this summer? Aaron Hefner: 6. While I don’t think the Jazz needed...