Utah Jazz

Reasons For Optimism As Jazz’s Playoff Run Begins

It’s not hard to find reasons to be pessimistic about the Utah Jazz, who limped toward the 2022 NBA playoffs with a stretch of poor play, public bickering, and catastrophic meltdowns in clutch moments. At this point, there...

Jazz Prepare for a High-Stakes Postseason

The 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...

Salt City Seven: Bring On Dallas, Season Wrap Numbers, Confidence

Every Monday during the regular season, the week here at SCH begins with the Salt City Seven: seven regular features that let us relive the biggest moments, key performances and hot issues in Jazzland from various angles. Check...

A Look at Rudy Gobert’s DPOY Chances, Part II: Impact

The 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...

Postgame Video Chat: Jazz 121, Grizzlies 115 (OT)

Minutes after the Jazz-Grizzlies OT thriller, Mark Russell Pereira cracked open a beer and went live for a Salt City Hoops postgame video chat. The replay is below.Follow Mark on Twitter for updates on future postgame...

Last Minute Moves: Front Office To-do List for the Final Week

Even as we muddle through the final six days of the NBA’s regular season, the Utah Jazz front office is still putting the finishing touches on the roster, believe it or not. If nothing else, the club’s brain trust has at...

Salt City Seven: Late Execution, Bogey’s Quiet Confidence, Final Week & More

Every Monday during the regular season, the week here at SCH begins with the Salt City Seven: seven regular features that let us relive the biggest moments, key performances and hot issues in Jazzland from various angles. Check...

Gold Standard? A Brief History of Utah’s Statement Uniforms

On Saturday night, when the Utah Jazz left the floor at Chase Center, they went to the locker room and removed their controversial Statement Edition uniforms for the last time after a regular season game. It remains to be seen if...

Live Postgame: Lakers at Jazz

It’s been a while, so let’s get together and talk Jazz again. Crack open your late evening beverage of choice and join Mark Russell Pereira for a postgame video chat. Live viewers can click through to YouTube if you...

A Look at Rudy Gobert’s DPOY Chances, Part I: Obstacles

Rudy 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....