Utah Jazz
July 28th, 2022 | by
Zarin FicklinBring up the Lakers or Russell Westbrook to a Utah Jazz fan, and you’re likely to elicit a strong reaction. For many Jazz fans, helping the Lakers improve or imagining Russell Westbrook as a Utah acquisition is a non-starter....
Utah Jazz
June 27th, 2022 | by
Zarin FicklinThe Jazz were unexpectedly quiet coming out of draft week. They ended the night without a drafted player for the first time in 30 years, and for the first time in 10 years they made no draft-adjacent trade. This may seem...
Utah Jazz
June 10th, 2022 | by
Zarin FicklinWell then.The Dallas series happened. Coach Quin Snyder is moving on. Fans of the Jazz are wading through the seven stages of grief, but hey, it’s familiar territory. Some are still in the denial stage, some in the depression...
Utah Jazz
April 14th, 2022 | by
Zarin FicklinThe Utah Jazz stand on a knife’s edge.This has been the most fraught year in the Quin Snyder era. Last year’s number one seed feels like it took a step back. There has been constant noise — about chemistry issues, about...
Rudy Gobert
April 10th, 2022 | by
Zarin FicklinThe NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year race has shifted since we started our look at Rudy Gobert’s chances of a fourth award. The Jazz had a pair of miserable fall-from-ahead losses, and Gobert has slid outside the...
Rudy Gobert
March 31st, 2022 | by
Zarin FicklinRudy Gobert is chasing his fourth Defensive Player of the Year award. Only Dikembe Mutombo and Ben Wallace have won four times. Gobert, not yet in his 30s, is on a path to become the most decorated defensive player of all time....
Utah Jazz
March 18th, 2022 | by
Zarin FicklinUsing Utah’s past playoff performance as a future predictor is tricky. The Jazz have failed to advance past the second round the last five seasons, but especially the losses involving this core group had some unique...
Utah Jazz
March 2nd, 2022 | by
Zarin FicklinThe monthly rewind is back, with a look back at one of the best Jazz months ever. We skipped the rewind after a 4-12 January, or rather the month-that-shall-be-forgotten. It turns out that reading and writing about the Jazz is...
Trades
February 10th, 2022 | by
Zarin FicklinThe dust of the 2022 trade deadline has settled, and the crowd goes mild. After a Wednesday trade to beat the deadline-day rush, the Jazz made no further moves ahead of Thursday’s 1:00 p.m. deadline.On Wednesday, the Jazz...
Utah Jazz
January 28th, 2022 | by
Zarin FicklinWow, what a turbulent month for the Utah Jazz. The Jazz have lost nine of their last 11 games. The rotation has been ravaged by health issues. Andrew Wiggins was named All-Star starter over Rudy Gobert, despite the latter...
