Salt City Seven: Outside In, Playoff Chances, Midtown Mitchell & More

The struggles continue for the Jazz, who since our last Salt City Seven lost three more games and—more importantly—their best player. In this week’s modular recap of all-things-Jazz, we dissect the recent struggles a...

Late Mistakes, Loose Balls Doom Jazz in New York

The Utah Jazz got a season-best scoring outburst from Rodney Hood on Wednesday, and Donovan Mitchell got a memorable Madison Square Garden debut. Neither, though, got when they came to Manhattan for: a first road win of the...

Podcast: How Does Utah Recover From a Recent Slump and Survive an Injury to Gobert?

Dan and Ken Clayton huddle up to discuss the news that Rudy Gobert will miss four to six weeks with a bruised knee. The Jazz had already been slumping, and Gobert’s injury raises the stakes for finding answers in the...

Salt City Seven 2017-18 Archive

Since the start of the 2015-16 season, the Salt City Seven has been our weekly, multi-faceted way of catching up on all things Jazz through a number of different lenses. SCH readers occasionally ask if there’s a page with,...

Salt City Seven: Will the Offense Improve?

Seven days is a long time. That’s evident because the last time we met for this weekly feature recapping 168 hours in Jazzland, Utah was coming off a 3-0 stretch and their fans were wondering how real certain aspects of the...

SC7: Jazzgasms on D, Thabo, 3 Game Balls & More

Every week, the Salt City Seven column brings you the stories, stats, performances and quotes that mattered most in the previous seven days. After a 3-0 stretch, we get to spend this week’s edition doling out multiple game...

SC7: Recalibrating Rudy, Bouncing Back, Assist History

It’s time for the Salt City Seven, the weekly recap of all things Jazz, served up in seven capsules on topics big and small. As usual, we’ll start with a prominent big picture topic, which this week centers on, well,...

Salt City Seven: Defense Wins, Rubio Dishes, Exum Decides and More

And we’re back in business. Basketball that matters resumed this week in the world’s best league, and that means the Salt City Seven returns to the Jazz online community. The SC7 is our place to relive the previous...

Cuts, Extensions Make a Busy Weekend for Jazz Decision-Makers

While the rest of us spend this last non-NBA weekend of the year preparing for a 6-month basketball hibernation, the Jazz front office actually still has work to do. Go ahead: clean out the den, balance your checkbook, vacuum...

What Exum’s Injury Means to Him, His Future, the Jazz

Right up until the moment when 230 pounds of shooting guard landed right on top of him, Dante Exum was having a terrific preseason. In fact, few Jazz players were playing as impressively relative to expectations and the...