Pickonomics: The Market Value of Draft Ranges

The NBA is a strange little marketplace, especially in June. There are a finite number of actors — 30 — and it’s never entirely clear who’s buying versus selling. The merchandise is NBA talent, which as...

Tomic Teetering: The Croatian Big Still Up in the Air, Reports Say

The on-again, off-again saga involving Ante Tomic’s NBA prospects is back on… sort of. Gigantes del Basket, an international hoops magazine and website, reports that Tomic is still considering the possibility of an...

Dennis Lindsey Doesn’t Need the Spotlight to Lead

Twelve months ago, you couldn’t talk about the Utah Jazz without talking about Dennis Lindsey. Now you can, and that’s just fine with the club’s general manager. This time last year, the state of the franchise...

Lindsey Likes Utah’s “Sweet Spot” at 12

Twelve it is. The Utah Jazz went into Tuesday evening’s lottery draw with long odds of moving up from their #12 position for the June 25 draft, and left without any major surprises. Just minutes into the...

Offseason Target: Raiding the Raptors’ Post-Playoff Mess

There are a lot of places the Utah Jazz could go talent-shopping as they look to turn all their promise and potential into a competitive club. For example, they could look to the North. Way North. The Jazz are a few steps away...

Reppin’ Right: Who Should Be Utah’s Lotto Rep?

May 19 is simultaneously the biggest day for Jazz news in the next month and a half, and a likely non-news day. Yes, NBA Draft Lottery day is the only key date on the league’s May calendar that matters to Utah, currently...

How Would the Jazz Have Done in the Playoffs?

All across Jazz communities both real and virtual, the Kool-Aid is freely flowing. The Utah Jazz, 32-23 since mid December and 19-10 since the All-Star break, have create some real believers. They have an identity, the beginnings...

10-Game Season Recap, Part Two & Final Game Balls

When the calendar flipped to 2015, head coach Quin Snyder suggested to his squad that they compartmentalize the remaining games into more manageable 10-game chunks as a means of marking progress. We’re doing the same for...

Season Recap * 8: Reliving 2014-15 Ten Games At a Time

The book is closed on a transformative season of Utah Jazz basketball. Or, if you’ve been paying attention to head coach Quin Snyder, several mini-seasons. On January 1, with exactly 50 games remaining, Snyder proposed to his...

Four To Go & Game Ball Batch 7

Thirty-six game balls for 36 wins. And counting? The Jazz have only playoff-bound opponents in their final four outings, so there’s no telling how much more mantle candy will be doled out in this space. Given the way the...