Derrick Favors

Favors’ Health, Contract May Define the Ceiling For This Jazz Iteration

As the Jazz struggle to resolve a host of issues, it’s tempting for Jazz fans to feel the sky is falling. And it may be, at least in terms of the heights of potential for this roster. But not because of the adversity raining...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Ford Dunks and a Cooker For Hire

Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag, our regular dose of levity here at Salt City Hoops. In each mailbag, Jimbo answers your burning questions with his unique outlook on Jazz basketball. Jimbo, by virtue of being...

Salt City Seven: Aching Favors, Solid Week for Hayward, Quin Nears .500

It’s been a fairly positive week in Jazzland since our last weekly check-in via the Salt City Seven. The Jazz finished a successful trip, their star is looking plenty starry, and the squad is stacking up nicely as the...

Injured Jazz Lose To Grizzlies; 96-102

The Utah Jazz battled hard in this one, but in the end they were too injured and tired to win at home versus the Memphis Grizzlies.  George Hill, Rodney Hood, and Alec Burks were out tonight and Derrick Favors only played 21...

Jazz Smother Heat 102-91

Story of the Game The Jazz are the NBA’s anaconda: strong, long, systematic, and smothering. They coil around the paint and squeeze the life from those who dare enter. Teams lacking the ability to shoot Utah out of that...

Salt City Seven: Splitting the Bigs, Dissecting a Dunk and More

Since our last installment of the Salt City Seven, a weekly wrap-up column of all things Jazz, Utah’s star has returned, its starting point guard got hurt, and the squad started an East coast swing 2-1. Let’s dive...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – New Eye-Opening Stats

Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag, our regular dose of levity here at Salt City Hoops. In each mailbag, Jimbo answers your burning questions with his unique outlook on Jazz basketball. Jimbo, by virtue of being...

Extending Hill At (Almost) Any Cost

The Utah Jazz just inked Rudy Gobert to a four year contract worth almost exactly what the Miller family paid Karl Malone during his entire 18-year career in Utah. And if that dollar figure seems exorbitant, buckle up: that is...

The Long Road To The Playoffs

The Jazz kicked off their first extended road trip of the season with a win over the New York Knicks, welcoming Gordon Hayward back from injury. They’ll face the Sixers, Hornets, Magic, and Heat on this road trip. While...

Salt City Seven: Hayward’s Healed, Hill’s Hot, and More

  The big basketball-related Jazz stories of the past week have all centered around George Hill. And the biggest news involved Rudy Gobert. But before we get to that, there something bigger we need to discuss. The...