September 10th, 2015 | by
Laura Thompson I recently spent a couple of hours with Dr. Lyle Mason, picking his brain on the last 36 years of life — just barely more than half of his life — as the team physician with the Utah Jazz. It’s impossible to perfectly...
September 9th, 2015 | by
Laura Thompson I recently spent a couple of hours with Dr. Lyle Mason, picking his brain on the last 36 years of life — just barely more than half of his life — as the team physician with the Utah Jazz. It’s impossible to perfectly...
September 9th, 2015 | by
Ben Dowsett Draymond Green was one of the breakout stars of the NBA last season, and deservedly so. His elite and versatile defensive skills allowed the Warriors to build the league’s best and most adaptable defense despite his undersized...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
