November 11th, 2018 | by
Ken Clayton With no games on the Saturday or Sunday, it seemed like a good opportunity for a Salt City Hoops Q&A. To my surprise, only one question came in about the team as presently constituted. The rest focused on potential future...
November 9th, 2018 | by
Salt City Hoops Gordon Hayward arrived in Utah in 2010 a promising, wiry 20-year-old and grew into an NBA All-Star by the time he left the team as a free agent in 2017. On Friday, he will play his first game ever against the team that drafted...
November 9th, 2018 | by
Dan Clayton In the winter of 2004, Gordon Hayward was attending middle school in Brownsburg, Indiana, and Tom Gugliotta was an overpaid former All-Star languishing in a low-minute bench role for the Phoenix Suns. Those two facts, seemingly...
November 7th, 2018 | by
Tyler Crandall Once again, the Utah Jazz are off to a shaky start. Just as they did last season, the 2018-19 Jazz have started the year with a 10-game stretch that has included some alarming losses and a middling record. But looking deeper at...
November 5th, 2018 | by
Clint Johnson Story of the GameLast season, the Utah Jazz came to believe that their defense was stout enough to keep them in nearly any game, while their offence — though not consistently potent — had enough punch to put them over the top...
November 5th, 2018 | by
Dan Clayton The Salt City Seven drops every Monday throughout the regular season, with seven regular features meant to relive the week in Jazzland from various angles. Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that...
November 2nd, 2018 | by
Steve Godfrey Today’s NBA is a point guard’s world. Chart-topping singer Beyonce may have adamantly insised that girls “run this motha,” but in the modern-day NBA, it’s the elite class of ball handling guards who rule things. The...
