Give & Go: Jazz vs. the West Part I

There is no shortage of optimism around the Utah Jazz after they quietly addressed every glaring personnel need this offseason. Improved point guard play? Check. A complementary skilled big? Check. Improved wing depth? Check....

Jazz in Rio: Tracking Utah Players’ Olympic Summers

Four Utah Jazz players are doing their part to help the world get through the dog days of the NBA offseason. Rudy Gobert, Boris Diaw, Raul Neto and Joe Ingles will represent their respective countries in next month’s Summer...

Scouring the Free Agent Market Part II: Bigs

NBA free agency is already heating up, and we haven’t even reached the witching hour. Teams supposedly have to wait until midnight EDT (10:00 p.m. in Utah) to do business with this year’s class of free agents, but...

Scouring the Free Agent Market Part I: Wings

With hours to go before the NBA’s free agency period begins late tomorrow evening, the Utah Jazz certainly have their strategy in place by now. They know which NBA veterans they’ll be attempting to call or visit, We...

Jazz Pick Three NBA Hopefuls, Including Weber State Standout

Two NBA draft prospects put on Jazz hats to shake hands with commissioner Adam Silver on Thursday night in Brooklyn, but neither one is headed to Utah. Three NBA draft prospects were selected by the Utah Jazz on Thursday night,...

Hill Gives the Jazz An Interesting Year

365 days. That’s what the Utah Jazz acquired on Wednesday, at the modest cost of a mid-first round pick: an extra year of relevance. George Hill is a Jazz player, and as a result, the Jazz get twelve months’ worth of...

SCH Visits ESPN 960 to Talk Jazz, Draft, Trades and More

Hours before Marc Stein reported that the Utah Jazz were not interested in trading star forward Gordon Hayward, a Salt City Hoops columnist told ESPN 960’s Tom Kirkland that trading Hayward didn’t make a lot of...

On Trades, Talent and Tiers

  We’re a week away from the NBA Draft, which is great for people who have a physiological reaction to the words “upside” and “wingspan.” But we’re also seven days away from what is...

Keeping the Band Together: Can the Jazz Pay Everyone?

After years of sacrificing short-term relevance to amass and develop young talent, the Utah Jazz have a solid core in place. An extra piece or two would certainly help accelerate the group’s contention, but Utah already...

Tall-Ball: Has Utah Relented on Decision to Fight Small With Big?

The Golden State Warriors deserve (and get) a lot of credit for almost inadvertently reshaping the positional conversation within pro hoops. Down two games to one in last June’s NBA Finals, the Dubs didn’t just go small; it...