July 5th, 2016 | by
Angie Treasure Summer League (suh-mer leeg, Latin origin): July basketball-like pursuits played by rosters of mostly marginal league guys for the evaluation of staffs and enjoyment of fans. Small sample sizes derived therein are subject to be...
July 4th, 2016 | by
Angie Treasure Summer League is all about evaluating players — NBA youngins and/or fringe guys hoping to make a roster — and the phrase “doesn’t belong” is something that has very different meanings when applied to any given player....
June 30th, 2016 | by
Dan Clayton NBA free agency is already heating up, and we haven’t even reached the witching hour. Teams supposedly have to wait until midnight EDT (10:00 p.m. in Utah) to do business with this year’s class of free agents, but...
June 29th, 2016 | by
Dan Clayton With hours to go before the NBA’s free agency period begins late tomorrow evening, the Utah Jazz certainly have their strategy in place by now. They know which NBA veterans they’ll be attempting to call or visit, We...
June 24th, 2016 | by
Jimbo Rudding Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag! At Salt City Hoops, we know that covering a team without any humor can be dreary. As such, we decided to add a little bit more levity to our site via Jimbo’s unique outlook on...
June 24th, 2016 | by
Dan Clayton Two NBA draft prospects put on Jazz hats to shake hands with commissioner Adam Silver on Thursday night in Brooklyn, but neither one is headed to Utah. Three NBA draft prospects were selected by the Utah Jazz on Thursday night,...
June 23rd, 2016 | by
Dan Clayton 365 days. That’s what the Utah Jazz acquired on Wednesday, at the modest cost of a mid-first round pick: an extra year of relevance. George Hill is a Jazz player, and as a result, the Jazz get twelve months’ worth of...
June 22nd, 2016 | by
David J Smith The NBA Draft is a day away, but the Utah Jazz can already count themselves among the winners. In a big, sneaky good move, general manager Dennis Lindsey and company helped broker a three-team trade with the Atlanta Hawks and...
June 21st, 2016 | by
Dan Clayton Hours before Marc Stein reported that the Utah Jazz were not interested in trading star forward Gordon Hayward, a Salt City Hoops columnist told ESPN 960’s Tom Kirkland that trading Hayward didn’t make a lot of...
June 20th, 2016 | by
Jimbo Rudding Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag! At Salt City Hoops, we know that covering a team without any humor can be dreary. As such, we decided to add a little bit more levity to our site via Jimbo’s unique outlook on...
