September 1st, 2022 | by
Salt City Hoops The Jazz finally made the deal everybody expected — by making the deal nobody expected. They moved on from All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell, but not by trading him to the New York Knicks, whose pursuit of the Westchester...
August 25th, 2022 | by
Dan Clayton 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...
July 11th, 2022 | by
Dan Clayton In the 43 seasons the Jazz have belonged to Utah, just three of the franchise’s players have achieved all-league status at least four separate times: Karl Malone (14), John Stockton (11) and a certain Frenchman who’s...
April 10th, 2022 | by
Zarin Ficklin The NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year race has shifted since we started our look at Rudy Gobert’s chances of a fourth award. The Jazz had a pair of miserable fall-from-ahead losses, and Gobert has slid outside the...
March 31st, 2022 | by
Zarin Ficklin Rudy Gobert is chasing his fourth Defensive Player of the Year award. Only Dikembe Mutombo and Ben Wallace have won four times. Gobert, not yet in his 30s, is on a path to become the most decorated defensive player of all time....
June 12th, 2021 | by
Dan Clayton In the fall of 2017, the Utah Jazz made a gutsy decision. A few games into their season, they turned the offense over to a late lottery rookie. Their attempts to turn complementary scorer Rodney Hood into the focal point of the...
May 25th, 2021 | by
Jake Lee The misinformation continually fueled by clickbait factories and their bands of trolls has created a monumental gap between fan perception of Rudy Gobert and Rudy Gobert’s reality.It’s ironic that in a year where Gobert...
May 19th, 2021 | by
Isaac Adams The Jazz sent out packs of customized zines to NBA awards voters this week and they are awesome. Just one thing, the zine they sent for Rudy Gobert was for consideration for “DPOY & ALL-NBA.” It’s incredible...
January 29th, 2021 | by
Dan Clayton Mike Conley deserves to be a 2021 All-Star.The veteran guard has never made an All-Star team, but he’s having his best season in many respects. He leads the league in FiveThirtyEight’s RAPTOR metric that gauges...
January 26th, 2021 | by
Zarin Ficklin Jazz fans have seen many facets of Mike Conley: Let’s explore the veteran guard’s transformation from a star-level player in Memphis to the Conley that is posting elite impact numbers in his second season with the...