Jimbo’s Mailbag – Convincing Free Agents NOT to Sign With the Jazz

Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag! At Salt City Hoops, we know that covering a team without any humor can be dreary. As such, we decided to add a little bit more levity to our site via Jimbo’s unique outlook on...

Renegotiating Derrick Favors’ Contract: What Makes Sense?

It is against the rules of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement in the NBA for a player to renegotiate their contract and take a smaller amount of money. However, when a team is under the cap, they can renegotiate current...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Jazz Player Workouts

Q:  Any insights into who the Jazz may be working out in the next couple of weeks? @artdirector_g Thanks for the question! As a matter of fact, I just got off the phone with my source in the Jazz front office, who coincidentally...

Tall-Ball: Has Utah Relented on Decision to Fight Small With Big?

The Golden State Warriors deserve (and get) a lot of credit for almost inadvertently reshaping the positional conversation within pro hoops. Down two games to one in last June’s NBA Finals, the Dubs didn’t just go small; it...

No Lotto Luck: Jazz Will Pick 12th in 2016 NBA Draft

The NBA Draft Lottery is a night of potentially endless chaos. Teams could lose picks to rivals. Barely eligible lottery teams can make a jump into the top three slots, giving GMs the chance to select a franchise changer....

Jimbo’s Mailbag – The New Uniforms

Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag! At Salt City Hoops, we know that covering a team without any humor can be dreary. As such, we decided to add a little bit more levity to our site via Jimbo’s unique outlook on...

Listener Questions, Playoffs, Jazz Logo, Quin, & More — Salt City Hoops Show

This week’s episode of the Salt City Hoops Show felt like an episode of PTI: so many topics, so little time. On an abbreviated show due to the Warriors/Blazers game, hosts Andy Larsen and Angie Treasure begin by talking...

The Five People You Meet in (Utah Jazz Offseason) Heaven

Before you read the title and think this blog post is about how the Jazz are going to sign Kevin Durant or Mike Conley this summer, be warned that it isn’t about that at all. This is about the five free agents that are most...

What the Quin Snyder Extension Means

In the summer of 2014, the Utah Jazz were facing a daunting off-season. For the first time in literally decades, the team was encountering something very unfamiliar: a hiring search for a new head coach. With Tyrone...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Sharing a Burrito with a Jazz Player

Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag! At Salt City Hoops, we know that covering a team without any humor can be dreary. As such, we decided to add a little bit more levity to our site via Jimbo’s unique outlook on...