Utah Jazz

The Absolute Value of Picks & the Sweet 7-10 Draft Pocket

For an NBA front office evaluating draft picks, ultimately what you’re hoping to do is use your picks in a way that maximizes the pick’s estimated lifetime value to value paid for ratio. Average players end right...

Let the Weird Fun Begin: The Jazz Rebuild is Here

Here it goes. A rebuilding era potentially unlike any other in Utah Jazz history offically gets underway on Monday when a couple dozen mostly unrecognizable dudes (in completely unrecognizable garb) kick of training camp with...

Jazz Roster Remodel Continues With Bogey-Olynyk Swap

Prior to Thursday, the Utah Jazz had traded 60% of their starters for eight future picks, two recently selected first-rounders, three pick swaps and a collection of young players headlined by scoring guard Collin Sexton and...

More Deals to Come? A Look at the Pre-Camp Trade Landscape

The new-look Utah Jazz have one week before media day, eight days until the opening of training camp, thirteen days before the first preseason contest in Edmonton, Alberta, and exactly one month until the start of the regular...

Understanding and Valuing the Jazz’s Three Pick Swaps

Rudy Gobert has been gone for some time, and last week, Donovan Mitchell was traded to Cleveland, ending a five-year era of Jazz basketball that was more promising on the front end that what it ended up becoming in before the...

Does the Barrett Extension Kill Jazz-Knicks Talks?

After Knicks forward R.J. Barrett agreed to a $120 million contract extension on Monday night, our Dan Clayton hit “record” to explain what it could mean to a potential Jazz-Knicks deal. Specifically, he covers the...

Q&A: Jazz Weigh Alternate Futures As Offseason Enters Crunch Time

In one month, the Utah Jazz will convene in the Zions Bank Basketball Campus and training camp will begin, kicking off a season that will undeniably look different than the last several. With two starters, a key reserve and a...

As With Jazz-Lakers Trade, Vet Deals May Precede the Big Domino

It’s easy to forget given all that has happened since, but the Utah Jazz’s first major piece of offseason business had nothing to do with their All-Stars. Before they dealt Rudy Gobert to Minnesota or began seriously...

Acquiring Westbrook Makes Some Sense For Rebuilding Jazz

Bring up the Lakers or Russell Westbrook to a Utah Jazz fan, and you’re likely to elicit a strong reaction. For many Jazz fans, helping the Lakers improve or imagining Russell Westbrook as a Utah acquisition is a non-starter....

Who Has Had the Most (and Fewest) Top Three Picks?

Championship teams require several elements to come together. Good ownership, good management, good coaching, and good talent. They also need a little luck from time to time. Good talent can acquired through trades and free...