Summer Book Report: How the Jazz and the NBA Are Chasing Perfection

Adieu, offseason. We made it.The Utah Jazz start their training camp this week, which means we survived the long slog of a basketball-free summer. Not that the offseason is all bad. It’s a good chance to burn through the...

Recurring Rivalries of Yesteryear Suggest Jazz, Thunder Just Getting Started

For a two-week stretch in late April of 2018, the Utah Jazz played indisputably better basketball than the Oklahoma City Thunder. That’s a fact. We saw it, and there’s a historical record of a 4-2 playoff series...

Tales of Tag: Ice, Expletives and More First-Hand Anecdotes Involving Double-Zero

As I walked back into a locker room that just minutes earlier had been crowded with players and reporters, it was just the two of us. I was about to get my introduction to ‘Tag.It was my first time in an NBA locker room,...

Q&A: Breaking Down Deals, Future Star-Hunting, Is This It?

The Jazz are mostly done with their 2018 offseason. Salt City Hoops readers, on the other hand, are not.There were still a ton of great questions in this week’s offseason Q&A. Specifically, readers wanted to hear more...

Free Agency Q&A: Favors is Back, Who Has Room, Exum & More

We’re not even two days into free agency, and already there is clarity on the Jazz’s roster plans, cap situation, and immediate future.Derrick Favors agreed to a two-year, $36 million deal on Monday afternoon. That...

Every Single 2018 NBA Free Agent

Welcome to the definitive guide on 2018 NBA free agents.This is the only place you’ll find a sentence or two on every single 2018 free agent (or potential free agent) who played in the NBA last season. That’s some...

Q&A: Keeping Exum & Favors, Star Targets and More

By this time next week the free agency craziness will be underway. Which makes this the perfect time to get one last June Q&A in.So we’ll send you into free agency with answers to a bunch of great questions submitted...

Duke Guard Grayson Allen Tapped to Join Mitchell and the Jazz

Everything was going according to script for the No. 21 pick in Thursday’s NBA draft. Just like the 20 prospects selected before him, Grayson Allen celebrated with his family, slipped on a hat bearing his new team’s...

Offseason Q&A: Another Rudy is Available, MLE Targets, Draft Trades & More

It’s about time to get down to business — literally.Draft week is upon is, which means it’s officially time for teams to stop talking and start transacting. We’re actually into the deal window now; many...

2017-18 Rewind: Rudy Gobert Remains Utah’s Spiritual Leader & Ace in the Hole

Early in the second quarter of an April game against the Golden State Warriors, with the reigning Defensive Player of the Year coming straight at him, Rudy Gobert had another one of those moments.Of the thousand little instants...