Primer: NBA Contract Extension Rules

As Peter Novak and I were preparing for our nerd smackdown debate on extension values for Gordon Hayward and Derrick Favors, Peter aptly threw in a primer on extension rules. I decided to share those here as a companion post for...

Predicting the Pace for the New-Era Utah Jazz

The question of what’s next for the Jazz has been a big one this summer and it has been asked dozens of different ways. But one that hasn’t been asked is what the Jazz’s new modus operandi will be with regard to...

Three X Factors for the ’13-14 Jazz

During a great discussion on last week’s Saturday Show where we dissected Dennis Lindsay’s comments about the current roster, I suddenly started to see players grouped in a completely different way than how we always...

Jazz to Auction Remaining Cap Space Via Trade?

Still scanning the list of available free agents and photoshopping them into Jazz jerseys? You can probably stop. Utah, according to reports, is looking to spend the last $4 million and change of its cap space, but not that way....

Post Mortem For an Era

  I began my eulogy of a passing era of Jazz basketball before it was officially over. Last month, I shared a look at jump-shooting trends that defined recent Jazz basketball, and now that nearly every veteran free agent of...

Jazz & Free Agency: The Sound of Silence

NBA free agency is a few days old, and so far the most exciting rumor to come out of the Intermountain West is that it’s the location of Dwight Howard’s $100 million game of Eeny-meeny-miny-moe. Even that is on the...

Gal Mekel (PG, Israel) Scouting Video

Editor note: After spending hours on this video scouting of Israeli PG Gal Mekel (a player who the Jazz have reportedly been interested in for years), Dan Clayton eagerly sent it to me yesterday afternoon, asking me if I wanted...

Jazz Free Agency Primer ’13

Several months’ worth of draft geekery is winding down, which only means it’s time to shift the focus to another crop of players and another set of complicated rules: NBA free agency is days away. Don’t fear,...

A Point-less Jazz Draft is Possible

For reasons that make complete sense, everybody expects the Jazz to come away from next Thursday’s NBA Draft with a point guard. Good luck finding a mock draft that doesn’t land a PG in either the 14th or 21st...

How “Inside-Out” Got Turned Inside-Out

The NBA offseason hasn’t technically begun, and yet the Jazz are already preparing to craft a new offensive identity. Franchise brass has already hinted at changes to the offensive system, no small consideration as they...