The Myth of Movement & the Jazz Fan Conundrum

The subway, the snow and the polar vortex conspired this week to remind me about the myth of movement. And since there’s a basketball metaphor trapped inside my very chilly commute story, you get to hear about it. I arrived...

Utah Jazz Mock Draft Round-up 1.0

Throughout the next six months, look for periodic updates so you can see all the mocks in one location–perhaps once a month through the rest of the season and then more frequently after the NBA Draft Lottery transpires on...

Can Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter Work Together?

  Building and maintaining a competitive NBA roster from year to year is a complex task. More often than most GM’s around the league would prefer, crises arise in some area of this process. These situations can come up...

Hapless Jazz Brushed Aside By Spirited Wolves Display

Wolves comfortably dispatched Jazz 112-97 Tuesday night at EnergySolutions Arena, completing a 210-169 aggregate win against a suddenly out-of-form Utah side.  After Saturday’s away 98-72 defeat to the Minnesota side, Jazz...

Utah’s Record After Blowout Losses

I read a tweet this week that got me thinking. That made me curious: how did the Jazz respond after each one of these egg-laying losses? What is the team showing as far as toughness and resiliency after difficult losses? And is...

Trey Burke Vs. The World (Of Point Guards)

Since John Stockton hung up his Jazz jersey in the spring of 2003, Utah has struggled to find that one special point guard that can be the general for a brigade of talented basketball players. From Mo Williams to Jamaal Tinsley,...

Welcome to the New-Look Salt City Hoops!

As you can tell, Salt City Hoops has updated its design. We’ve worked on this for many months now, and we are extremely proud to be launching this new design for a project we truly love. Here’s what we hope we...

Favors/Kanter Lineup, Kevin Love Trade? & More – Salt City Hoops Saturday Show

Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter haven’t played much together recently: can they be good together? This week’s team of Andy Larsen, Austin Horton, and Ben Gaines go in depth into the topic. Is it Enes Kanter or Derrick...

2014 NBA Draft Rankings: January Edition

The 2013 NBA Draft resembled a game of king of the hill played on a pitchers mound.  In a down class with no clear franchise prospects, a slew of players scaled what passed for the peak only to be displaced by a prospect little...

Trey Burke: Ice in His Veins

Moxie. Swagger. Cool. Fearless. Calm. Patient. Composed. Confident. Poised. Ice. We’ve been hearing all sorts of adjectives to describe Trey Burke, especially his clutch, late-game play. After last night’s game—even though...