Salt City Seven: Injury Woes, Historical Joe and More

You’ve waited all summer, but one your favorite things finally returns this week. No, not just NBA basketball… The Salt City Seven. Last year, we started the tradition of a weekly check-in on all things Jazz. Every...

Phantom Cap Room Not a Reason to Make Rudy Wait

In five days, the Utah Jazz will be playing basketball. Not exhibition basketball. Not glorified practice games. Real NBA basketball. But in 11 days, they have to have reached decisions on a contract extension for Rudy Gobert and...

The Exum Game: Coming Soon?

Just over three minutes into Wednesday night’s preseason game against Phoenix, Dante Exum was already cooking. At the 8:40 mark, the Jazz guard found himself in the corner, with Suns star Eric Bledsoe trying to deny him the...

Derrick Favors: Better Than You Think He Is

No matter how good you think Jazz power forward Derrick Favors is, there’s a good chance he’s better. Even as the Jazz hype train barrels down the tracks with column after column citing reasons for optimism in Utah,...

Could Pleiss Deal Clear the Way for Extensions?

The Jazz’s Friday trade with Philadelphia shows that the erstwhile asset-hoarders have changed gears. Spending picks at all is a big shift for GM Dennis Lindsey, who has been on the receiving end of those types of trade...

League, Players’ Union Should Fix Counterproductive Draft Rights Rules

The Utah Jazz signed guard Marcus Paige this week, a move that makes it less likely they’ll still hold the former Tar Heel’s draft rights once the season begins. Yeah, you read that right. Less likely. Because of...

Give & Go: Jazz vs. the West Part II

In part one of this mental exercise, a pair of SCH writers tried to figure out exactly which Western Conference teams the Jazz will top in the 2016-17 standings. Here, Aaron Hefner and Dan Clayton go back to work, asking the...

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...