Utah Jazz

Figuring Out the Future: How to Watch Jazz Games During a Transitional Year

The Utah Jazz have turned some heads early on, winning four of their first five with energy and defense. They’ve been a fun surprise. Things could even out rather quickly; they play nine of their next 14 on the road, they...

An Extremely Timely Introduction to the New Faces on the Utah Jazz

Hello Utah Jazz fan, enthusiast, and/or basketball masochist! Surely you’ve heard enough by now of Utah’s earth-shattering decision to move on from Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell. Utah acquired a giant bag of draft picks...

100 Predictions for the 2022-23 NBA Season

Ah, it’s wonderful to see: NBA basketball made its regular season return with a pair of heavyweight games on Tuesday night showcasing the revamped rosters of the 2022 NBA Finalists, the Boston Celtics and Golden State...

Let’s Lose Some Money Together: Sportsbook’s Preview of the 2022-23 Jazz

Unlike last year, I find myself with no tangible thoughts or strong feelings about the Utah Jazz as an on-court product. The Jazz are a fleeting, mild curiosity for much of the NBA cognoscenti; a rebuilding team with precisely...

Starting 5: Writers Weigh in on Surprises, Success Measures & the Future

What have we learned about today’s and tomorrow’s Jazz this October?Five Salt City Hoops writers react to what we’ve seen so far in the preseason of the new-look Utah Jazz, including by projecting the short and...

Active October as Jazz Weigh Decisions

With all due respect to the trade deadline and the summer transaction window, these few weeks in October are by far the busiest in the NBA year when it comes to the sheer volume of business that gets done. Over the next few days,...

The Absolute Value of Picks & the Sweet 7-10 Draft Pocket

For an NBA front office evaluating draft picks, ultimately what you’re hoping to do is use your picks in a way that maximizes the pick’s estimated lifetime value to value paid for ratio. Average players end right...

Let the Weird Fun Begin: The Jazz Rebuild is Here

Here it goes. A rebuilding era potentially unlike any other in Utah Jazz history offically gets underway on Monday when a couple dozen mostly unrecognizable dudes (in completely unrecognizable garb) kick of training camp with...

Jazz Roster Remodel Continues With Bogey-Olynyk Swap

Prior to Thursday, the Utah Jazz had traded 60% of their starters for eight future picks, two recently selected first-rounders, three pick swaps and a collection of young players headlined by scoring guard Collin Sexton and...

More Deals to Come? A Look at the Pre-Camp Trade Landscape

The new-look Utah Jazz have one week before media day, eight days until the opening of training camp, thirteen days before the first preseason contest in Edmonton, Alberta, and exactly one month until the start of the regular...