Should Utah Extend Alec Burks?

Free agency is a complex game of give-and-take. Offer too much or too soon, and you’ve spent your way out of potential assets whose situations become clearer in later days. On the flip side, too much patience puts you at risk...

Why Our Gordon Hayward Comps Are All Wrong

Before you jump off the Gordon Hayward bandwagon, there are some things you should know. Particularly if your discomfort at the idea of matching a max or near-max offer sheet for the versatile wing has to do with...

Gordon Hayward and Other FA Options – Salt City Hoops Podcast

On this week’s show, Andy Larsen returns from Brazil and joins Ben Dowsett to start talking free agency. With rumors that Gordon Hayward could be receiving a max deal, Ben and Andy dig into the topic of A) is Hayward worth...

Talking Day 1 of Free Agency – The Brothers Clayton Podcast

The Brothers Clayton get together once again for a half hour podcast to talk about the first day of the NBA’s free agency period. They look to answer the question: what type of free agent helps the Jazz most? What is Dennis...

Dante Exum and Utah’s Guard Rotation

Given the fast-paced nature of the silly season, it already seems to feel like last week’s Draft took place ages ago. Dante Exum and Rodney Hood have arrived in Salt Lake City and given their first sound bites to local media,...

The Bipolarity of Jazz Fandom

This last week of Jazz fandom, including today, feels a little bit like I imagine being bipolar would feel like—an exhilarating high (Exum?! We seriously got Exum?!), followed by what may not be the lowest of the lows, but a...

Free Agency Preview: How Does the Draft Affect Potential Targets?

  We interrupt the collective glow-basking of Jazz fans everywhere following a resoundingly successful draft to look at the next phase of the offseason. That’s right, fellow Jazz fanatics.  You only have mere minutes...

Experts’ Take on the Utah Jazz’s Draft

For the second year in a row, Utah Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey and his fellow front office cohorts had a stellar NBA Draft night. In 2013, Lindsey’s first at the helm, he brokered three trades that netted All-Rookie point guard...

SCH Podcast: Draft Reaction with Dan Clayton

  On this week’s Salt City Hoops podcast, hosts Ben Dowsett and Clint Johnson are joined for the entirety of the pod by Dan Clayton, who attended last night’s draft on behalf of SCH. They talk about Dan’s...

NBA Draft: Jazz Land Exum, Hood

Twice in the first round of Thursday’s NBA Draft, the Utah Jazz were looking up at players they coveted and hoping for a good bounce or two. Both times, they got the bounces. Australian guard Dante Exum (no. 5) and Duke...