Personnel Notebook: Roster Housekeeping, D-League Rights and A Bit of Wishful Thinking

Basketball’s back. The Jazz kicked off their season on Wednesday with a five-point loss in Detroit despite 26 points from forward Derrick Favors. Favors was the first Jazz player since 2009 to drop 25 or more in a season...

Most Likely to Succeed, 2015-16 and Beyond

Award speculation is a fun lens through which to preview a season. Until Quin Snyder rains on the parade. One way to think about the season ahead is to get wildly hypothetical about league recognition relative to Utah Jazz...

Will Utah’s Starting Lineup Work?

Midway through the preseason, Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder is already hinting at lineup changes. “We know our players and we’ll try different combinations,” he told Jody Genessy. “It’s important...

Positional Power Rankings After Two Preseason Games

With a sample size of 505 player minutes of preseason Utah Jazz basketball, some trends are already emerging to help us sort through a long list of roster and rotation questions. For starters, it’s already obvious which...

The Most Interesting Jazz Training Camp Duels

Stability is the antithesis of suspense, so Gordon Hayward, Derrick Favors and Rudy Gobert will have to forgive us if we skip past them in search of some autumn drama. Those three are Utah’s best players and surefire...

The Crucible of Rudy Gobert (Why Last Thursday Was Awesome)

Jazz fans have seen a lot of things from Rudy Gobert, and in a lot of different contexts. He’s waited his turn on the bench, he’s played important reserve minutes, he’s started. He has unveiled new moves,...

Roundball Reminiscing: My Saturday in the Hall

Pay no attention to the grown man choking back tears in front of the video board. There must have been some dusty air particles floating around Western Massachussetts last weekend, or else somebody was waxing seriously...

Future Finance Watch Part II: 2017-18

Let’s continue our look ahead into the Jazz’s dozens of contingency options and an ever-changing cap sheet. As covered in part one of this two-part look, Utah has definitely given itself a number of different...

Future Finance Watch Part I: This Season and Next

Cap space doesn’t score buckets, and financial flexibility has never hoisted a Larry O’Brien Trophy. The value of keeping financial doors open is limited to the sum of what teams are able to do in leveraging that...

Gleaning Clues From August Jazz Gossip

To look at the Utah Jazz’s current roster, it’s been a summer without much change. Outside of some training camp hopefuls, everybody under contract as of this writing was either already in the organization or had NBA...