Draft

Answering questions about Utah’s recent moves

With free agency only double digits hours away, things are happening in Jazzland almost faster than we can respond to them. Just in the last week:The Jazz drafted Taylor Hendricks, Keyonte George, and Brice Sensabaugh;Then traded...

Video: Salary Cap Breakdown

Free agency opens in less than 72 hours, but there are still a couple of important decisions looming before we know what the Jazz cap sheet will look like entering this important period. Ken Clayton walks you through the whole...

Video: Jazz Acquire Collins in Apparent Step Towards Competitiveness

News broke Monday morning that the Jazz will acquire John Collins from the Atlanta Hawks, prompting an array of questions around the Jazz roster, rotation and cap sheet. Dan and Ken Clayton are here to talk through the impacts...

Jazz Draft Haul Shows Emphasis on Shooting, Size

When the Utah Jazz’s season ended in April, club CEO Danny Ainge already had a pretty good idea what he’d be shopping for this summer: “Shooting with size,” he said in his end-of-season media...

Picks on the Move: 23 Years of Draft Trade Precedent

The NBA’s offseason player movement machine always revs into high gear right around the draft, but this is already primed to be a wild June. On an otherwise sleepy summer afternoon, the marketplace swung open on Sunday with...

Jazz-Related Reflections As NBA Season Concludes

There’s a certain kinship among fanbases in non-glamor markets, so watching a pair of understated, homegrown superstars from Denver make it all the way to the NBA’s mountaintop has to be somewhat endearing to Utah...

With Lotto Order Set, Utah’s Other Picks May Signal Desires

 There were no wild surprises in the NBA Draft Lottery on Tuesday night. There was some slight reshuffling in the top five — league-worst Detroit fell all the way to fifth — but six through 14 went chalk. The...

Jazz-Specific Awards, Volume 3: Comeback Kid + Off-Court Roles

Over the past two days, we’ve been giving past Jazzmen a nod by determining which named should be attached to Jazz-focused hardware, and then honoring current Jazzmen by handing out those fake trophies.This season, the NBA...

Jazz-Specific Awards, Volume 2: Best Rookie, Most Clutch, Top Sub

Yesterday, we started the process of deciding which figures from Jazz history should have their names tied to Utah-specific awards, and which guys from the present deserve the recognition now.This year, the NBA renamed season...

Jazz Awards, Volume 1: Utah’s 2022-23 MVP, DPOY, MIP

The NBA’s awards season is both glorious and terrible. It spurs so much interesting debate that informs the myriad different ways to define basketball value, and at the same time it’s fueled by bad-faith arguments and...