Utah Jazz

Acquiring Westbrook Makes Some Sense For Rebuilding Jazz

Bring 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....

Who Has Had the Most (and Fewest) Top Three Picks?

Championship teams require several elements to come together. Good ownership, good management, good coaching, and good talent. They also need a little luck from time to time. Good talent can acquired through trades and free...

Bridging the Gap On Mitchell’s Value Using Star Trades

More than a week has passed since ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski set Jazz Nation on fire by revealing that the Utah Jazz had changed course and were more earnestly entertaining offers for three-time All-Star Donovan Mitchell.During...

Devil’s in the Details: Quick Cap Refresher on Relevant Offseason Issues

As one of Jazz Twitter’s resident nerds when it comes to the NBA’s collectively bargained transaction rules, I thought it might be helpful to address a few of the topics I’m getting questions about cap stuff...

Imagining Mitchell’s Future in a New Basketball Framework

The future of the Utah Jazz is up in the air. Donovan Mitchell may very well not be in a Jazz uniform to start the 2022-23 season. The Jazz are clearly engaged in talks that could send Mitchell out and start a rebuild for the...

The Mitchell Question is Central To Utah’s Post-Gobert Path

In the 43 seasons the Jazz have belonged to Utah, just three of the franchise’s players have achieved all-league status at least four separate times: Karl Malone (14), John Stockton (11) and a certain Frenchman who’s...

The Utah Jazz’s Coaching Search is Different This Time Around

The last time the Jazz hired a head coach, it was clear exactly what type of outfit he would lead. The club was coming off a 25-57 season. They had five recent lottery picks each still working down the developmental path, but...

Calm Before the Storm? Jazz Still Have Options After a Quiet Draft Night

The 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...

Here’s Johnny: Only Minor Moves for the Jazz on Draft Night

The 2022 NBA Draft was full of activity, with 27 of 30 NBA teams participating and picks and prospects being traded back and forth but the Utah Jazz started the night without any 2022 draft picks and did not acquire any during...

Remix: Imagining a New Melody For the Jazz

After three years of disappointing results with roughly the same core, it is widely understood that the Jazz cannot simply “run it back” next season, whatever that means. There will be significant change. Exactly how...