Podcast

A Look at the Retro Jazz – Salt City Hoops Podcast

On this week’s episode of the Salt City Hoops Podcast, Andy Larsen and Ben Dowsett are joined by Salt City Hoops writer David J. Smith as they discuss the great era of Utah Jazz history. We look at some big questions: how...

What if: Rony Seikaly had come to the Utah Jazz in 1998?

Off the heels of an impressive 1996-97 season, which saw the team go 64-18 en route to its first-ever NBA Finals appearance, the Utah Jazz came back the following year more determined to not only get back to the big stage, but...

My First Favorite Player: Jeff Hornacek

Last week, I re-watched the 1998 Finals between Utah and Michael Jordan’s Bulls for what was the first complete time since my childhood, and “live-blogged” the retro experience, if you will. It was a fun exercise, both as a...

My First Basketball Memory: 1998 NBA Finals

My family moved from North Andover, Massachusetts (suburb north of Boston) to Salt Lake City in August, 1997. Up to that point in my nine-year-old life, I was mostly a hockey kid, with my dad (thankfully) filtering my rooting...

A History of Left-Handed Utah Jazz Players

In case you were not aware, August 13th is officially Left-Handers Day. With that in mind, and because it is also interesting to review Jazz history,  it seems fitting that Salt City Hoops takes a look back at Utah’s...

The Greatness of Jeff Hornacek

While some of the different articles out there have varying opinions on how the Jazz off-season has fared (NBA.com’s David Aldridge, for instance, listed Utah 29th of 30), in many ways, I think the Jazz are having a very...

Jazz Brothers: Thurl Bailey B-Sides and Rarities

While the Jazz were starting the 2012-13 preseason with an inauspicious loss at Golden State with no television coverage on Monday night, the internet was doing what it does so well– serving up the following incredible...

Scott Layden takes assistant GM position with the Spurs

Now is as good a time as any to check out this bizarre vignette found in the KSL archives as part of our Retro Jazz project with KSL’s Jeremiah Jensen, featuring Frank Layden and Thurl Bailey re-enacting scenes from Indiana...

Retro Jazz: Billy Paultz Takes One For the Team

Editor’s Note: Retro Jazz is a project with KSL Sports to post classic Jazz footage from their archives. Special thanks to KSL’s Jeremiah Jensen for his great work finding, editing, and sharing these clips. The 1985...