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....
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...
December 15th, 2020 | by
Dan Clayton All-NBA center Rudy Gobert might be the league’s most misunderstood superstar. He also might be on the verge of being obscenely rich, which makes this a good time to try to suss out just how much impact he has on winning....
February 19th, 2019 | by
Clint Johnson The All-Star break carries with it a host of annual assessments of how the season has gone. In that tradition, the following statistics approximate how the season has gone thus far for each player on the Utah Jazz. Rudy Gobert:...
March 17th, 2018 | by
Dan Clayton While the Jazz keep rolling through their March schedule, we have a lot of work to do to roll through all the storylines, news and subplots.Every week here at Salt City Hoops we recap the previous seven days in Jazz land by...
April 14th, 2017 | by
Jarom Moore Ahead of the Jazz-Clippers first-round playoff series, we’re taking a position-by-position look at the talent and matchups. Here, Jarom Moore dives deep on the big men from each roster. Who has better big men? Really,...
January 22nd, 2017 | by
Dan Clayton The Clayton brothers connected this week to talk about the streaking Jazz and their pair of potential All-Stars. Reserves for the NBA’s mid-season classic will be announced this Thursday evening after the league tallies...
November 17th, 2016 | by
Dan Clayton It’s been a fairly positive week in Jazzland since our last weekly check-in via the Salt City Seven. The Jazz finished a successful trip, their star is looking plenty starry, and the squad is stacking up nicely as the...