Salt City Seven

Salt City Seven: Conley’s Calming Presence, Starter Shooting Woes & 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...

Threading the Needle: The Jazz’s 2020-21 Jersey Lineup

Welcome to the very first installment of Threading the Needle! Whether you have followed me on Twitter or just discovered the JazzUniTracker here on Salt City Hoops, I sincerely appreciate the interest. I’m excited at the...

Reader Q&A as Jazz Secure Their Core With Extensions For Their All-Stars

Rudy Gobert joined fellow Jazz All-Star Donovan Mitchell on Sunday in committing to a long-term future in Utah. Gobert and the Jazz agreed to a 5-year contract extension that will pay him $205 million in total salary starting in...

Utah’s Unique Superstar: On Gobert’s Greatness, Continued Growth and Possible Extension

All-NBA center Rudy Gobert might be the league’s most misunderstood superstar. He also might be on the verge of being obscenely rich, which makes this a good time to try to suss out just how much impact he has on winning....

Rebuttal to Hollinger’s Blasting of the “All-in-er” Jazz

John Hollinger is a really smart guy. The University of Virginia grad (good school!) is a basketball analytics pioneer, renowned inventor of Player Efficiency Rating (PER), a MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference mainstay, and...

Jazz Improve Perimeter Depth With Late Signing of Ex-Bull Harrison

More than a week into training camp, the Jazz are still tweaking their roster. Utah reportedly added some perimeter depth by agreeing to terms with free agent guard Shaquille Harrison on Wednesday, per reports from Tony Jones...

The Favors Factor Explains Why Utah Passed On Adding a 3-and-D Wing

“Geez, the Jazz front office sure whiffed by forgetting to pick up a 3-and-D player.”Pretty much every offseason involves Twitter fans and couch pundits criticizing (or.. Twitter-cizing? Eh?) decisions made by GMs...

Staff Scrimmage: Favors is Back, Clarkson Stays, Rudy’s Raise & More

The Utah Jazz have been busy. From securing the future of the franchise to reuniting with its past, the club has been active since the NBA’s transaction window opened up last week. A half dozen Salt City Hoops writers...

2020 Free Agent Tracker (With Thoughts On Jazz Fit For Each)

Bookmark this page now. You’ll be coming back to it. Trust me.Here is a list of literally every restricted and unrestricted free agent who finished last season on a standard NBA contract, listed in order of Wins Above...

Who Has Money (2020 Version): Tracking Spending Power For All 30 Teams

This awesome week for NBA fans marches on. As the NBA rushes to get its 2020-21 season underway, free agency, the draft and the restart of trade season are all jumbled together into a chaotic mess of league-shifting transactions....