Jazz by the Numbers, Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of Jazz by the Numbers, where we take a stroll down memory lane to recognize the best players to wear each uniform number for the Jazz. Earlier this summer we covered 00 through 24 and today we continue on, from...

Jazz Basketball Is Back

Rudy Gobert’s Poetic NightOn March 11 the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder had taken the court at Chesapeake Energy Arena and the opening tipoff was seconds away when the Thunder’s head medical staffer, Donnie...

Jazz by the Numbers, Part I

Earlier this year, The Athletic ran a few features about the best player to wear different uniform numbers in the NBA. As we still have a few weeks to go before seeing competitive basketball again, I thought it would be fun to...

An Easy Night in the Big Apple

There is no such thing as a guaranteed win in the NBA, as the Houston Rockets learned in a Monday loss at Madison Square Garden. So when the Jazz arrived at MSG it was refreshing to see that they were not going to fall into...

This Year’s Junior Jazz

The Year of the Rookie?In the midst of a rebuild, the 2014-15 Utah Jazz had a record nine different rookies get playing time. Those rookies played 5,782 combined minutes.This year, the Jazz have had seven different rookies see...

Jazz Have Longest All-Star Break in the League

One day after the ninth anniversary of his untimely trade to the Brooklyn Nets, former Jazz All-Star Deron Williams returned to Vivint SmartHome Arena in what might have been the only highlight of the night for a Jazz team that...

The Road Trip is Over

The Jazz finished their 5-game road trip with a 1-4 record after falling to the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night, 103-94. The Sixers were red-hot and the Jazz couldn’t hit the ocean from the seashore, especially from...

Early Closing for Thanksgiving: Jazz’s Second Half Leads to Loss in Indy

Looking ahead at this long, hard road trip, Wednesday’s date with the Pacers looked like one of the more winnable games in Utah’s 5-game eastern swing. Instead, Indiana easily handed the Jazz their second straight...

Jazz Miss DPOY in Loss to MVP

It was probably too much to hope for the same late-game heroics that allowed the Jazz to defeat the Bucks in Salt Lake to repeat themselves on Monday night in Milwaukee. Unlike that November 8 duel, this time the Jazz fell just...

Another Bad Weekend in Los Angeles as Jazz Fade Late

The good news for the Utah Jazz is that they don’t play a basketball game in California next weekend. The Jazz remain undefeated in games played outside of the state of California and we can only hope the trend continues as...