Gobert, Bogdanovic Bring Utah Back Against the Suns

For a while now, the fourth quarter of a Jazz-Suns game has been a good time to check emails and make a grocery list. Not anymore.Utah secured its eighth straight victory over the Suns on Monday night, but this one felt very...

Salt City Seven: Jazz Season Underway, Mitchell On Fire & More

NBA basketball is back. So is the Salt City Seven.The SC7 is our favorite weekly tradition around here — a 7-pronged recap of the Jazz’s week, told from a variety of angles. Every Monday throughout the regular season,...

Jazz’s Star Trio Stands Out, But Who Can Make the Megastar Leap?

For the last dozen or so NBA seasons, the contender class has been determined by Big Threes. Star trios –and in some cases quartets — won titles for Boston, Miami, San Antonio and Golden State during what could be...

SCH Podcast: Previewing the 2019-20 Jazz Season With Six Burning Questions

After reshaping their team with impact acquisitions this past summer, the Utah Jazz are about to embark on an important season. The Clayton brothers, Dan and Ken, get us primed for the 2019-20 campaign by comparing their...

Playing With D.O.N.: Reviews of Mitchell’s Issue #1 On the Court

Donovan Mitchell’s signature shoe is a tough product to find. It has been selling out in stores across the country, no doubt the combined result of the Jazz guard’s burgeoning stardom and the popularity of the Marvel...

Choosing to Believe

Before Manu Ginobili was a franchise icon, a four-time NBA champion and a surefire Hall of Famer, he was a nervous  youngster wondering if he belonged in the world’s best basketball league. And even on the April evening...

Team USA Summer Foreshadows a New Complexity for Mitchell

Donovan Mitchell is in a great place. Let’s just get that out of the way first. He’s fine.Yes, you heard some of the same specious narratives surface about Mitchell after his experience with USA Basketball this...

Injury-Resistant Jazz? Surviving Through Bumps & Bruises With Versatile Depth

The Jazz are going to be good. That much we have pretty well estbalished after their splashy offseason acquisitions.But an underdiscussed element of the club’s roster-building success is the number of guys on the team with...

FINAL UPDATE 9/15 – FIBA Tracker: Jazz’s Best on Display in China

With a roster that features the global diversity of a United Nations subcommittee, there’s always a decent chance that someone in the Utah Jazz’s employ can be found in some international tournament somewhere. This...

Sorting Out the Still-Wild West: Offseason Recaps & Tiers For All 15 Teams

The field is set. Fifteen Western Conference clubs are mostly done with their major personnel moves, which means we can start to suss out the power structure after a major talent shakeup across the NBA.Of course, ranking teams at...