Game Ball Batch Four (a.k.a. An Ode to Gordon Hayward)

You’re going to read a lot about Gordon Hayward in this fourth edition of the Game Ball rankings. Another batch of glowing recognition for some of Utah’s recent victory engineers seemed like exactly what Jazzland...

The Brothers Clayton Podcast: Trade Deadline Edition

  As the dust settled on a wild trade deadline day, Dan and Ken linked up from 2,500 miles away to survey the scene. The Brothers Clayton podcast is back, and the two brothers from the same mother spent a half hour talking...

Principles for the Utah Jazz’s Big Deadline Day

A pivotal trade deadline day for the Utah Jazz has arrived. Any trades to be made during the 2014-15 NBA season will be completed before the earth rotates once more on its axis, which means some questions will be answered soon,...

Choose Your Own Adventure: The Enes Kanter Edition

Enes Kanter is ready to flip ahead to the page where he’s in another city, another jersey, and another coach’s rotation. According to a late-night update from Aaron Falk that was then corroborated by Jody Genessy,...

The Utah Jazz & The 2015 Trade Deadline Q&A

Set your Twitter alerts. Start the Woj Watch. Get your Insider login credentials ready. We’re inside the final two weeks before the NBA’s trade deadline. By February 19 at 1:00 p.m. Mountain Time, we’ll know if...

The Kanter Question Revisited: What a Strong January Says (and Doesn’t)

Is there a more fascinating player this Utah Jazz season than Enes Kanter? Probably not. Understandably, much of the conversation has been directed elsewhere. Gordon Hayward and Derrick Favors are quietly putting together...

Utah Jazz Game Ball Rankings: Batch 3

The hottest game-ball related question I’ve been getting recently is: “Was that The Exum Game?” For the uninitiated, I’ve been waiting all season for the game when Dante Exum would jump out and grab our...

The Notre Dime: Watch All of Rudy Gobert’s 42 Assists

In last week’s post about Rudy Gobert crashing what we might consider the core of the future Utah Jazz, I mentioned in passing the center’s passing. He has started to show some impressive court vision and what his...

Crashing the Core: Rudy Gobert is Making a Case for Himself

We keep saying that  decision time is approaching for the Utah Jazz in their journey back to contender status. One of these times, we’ll be right. The task of sussing out which of the current 15 Jazz players will be vital...

Utah Jazz Game Ball Rankings: Batch Two

The Jazz went nine long games without getting a game ball, from the “Wake Up” game on November 18, clear until the reigning champs visited on December 9. At least the Jazz have a flair for the dramatic. Still, the...