Draft

Active Jazz Select Azubuike, Hughes After Draft-Day Deals

 For the Utah Jazz, the 2020 NBA Draft started hours before the selections began. In the early hours of the morning on Wednesday, the Jazz agreed to send the No. 23 pick to the New York Knicks in exchange for the No. 27 and...

A Breakdown of 38 Possible Free Agents for the Utah Jazz

With NBA Free Agency fast approaching, I spent the last several weeks examining every possible NBA free agent this summer and evaluating their fit with the Utah Jazz. To help me do this, I broke down their potential fits into 5...

Trade Season Starts: Which Jazz Players Are Most Likely To Move?

Very suddenly, the NBA’s trade season is here.So much has been up in the air regarding the various transaction windows that govern the league’s 30 teams, including when exactly teams would be allowed to resume making...

Jazz Draft Watch Part III: Wings on the Run

In the past few weeks I’ve previewed potential draft picks for the Jazz from among the bigs and the guards in this draft class. With a just under a week to go before draft night, reports from Jazz insiders lead me to...

Previewing the Utah Jazz’s Decisions in an Abbreviated Off-Season

The NBA and its players agreed to start the 2020-21 season on December 22, which means that basketball news will ramp up over the remaining few weeks. Just in the next few weeks, the NBA will hold its annual college draft...

How a Cap Maneuver Could Drop Conley’s 2020-21 Price, Extend His Stay in Utah

On the surface, Jazz guard Mike Conley has one of the easiest decisions anybody will make during this weird NBA offseason. Because of the deal he originally signed in Memphis before being traded to the Jazz in 2019, he has the...

Clutch Stops Highlight Gobert’s Incredibly Underrated Season

If a game-saving block was considered as exciting or valuable as a game-winning shot, Rudy Gobert’s 2019-20 season would go down as one of the greatest seasons of all time. However, just like his entire career, the All-NBA...

Jazz Draft Watch Part II: The Guards Rise

 With the 2020 NBA Finals officially in the rearview mirror, the next event on the NBA calendar is the 2020 NBA Draft: set to take place on November 18. Leading up to draft night, I’ll be running through a few players...

Jazz Draft Watch Part I: Can Utah Strike Gold With Another Non-Lotto Big?

With the NBA Finals potentially ending tonight, we are fast approaching the offseason and one of my favorite times of the year: NBA Draft Season. As with so much in 2020, this draft will be different, and not only because it is...

Conley’s Uneven Season Ended With a Strong Showing In the Bubble

Following the 2019 Playoffs, the Utah Jazz had to take a hard look in the mirror. For the second straight season they’d been dominated by the Houston Rockets 4-1 and entered the offseason prematurely. Clearly their current...