Salt City Seven

Salt City Seven: Pure Joy, Pick Watch & Context Behind an 8-3 Start

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

What Matters Most to Transitioning Jazz, Part 2: Development & Identity

With every gutsy win the Utah Jazz pile up, it’s getting harder to talk about them like a true rebuilding team. But if we’re being honest, this is still a Jazz group whose success in the longer term won’t really...

Five Reasons to Enjoy the Surprising Jazz Start

Are you a bandwagon Jazz enthusiast, only tuning in when the team is good and in the playoffs? Great! Bad and losing basketball can be quite shitty to watch frequently. Are you a Jazz diehard, enjoying the team in whatever form...

Above all, this Jazz team is FUN

Last season’s Utah Jazz certainly provided some good moments, but those memories are difficult to dredge up given all the drama and turnover that has happened since. As with a shroud covering a fresh corpse, it’s best...

Salt City Seven: The Fun Continues for the Pass-Happy, Defensive Jazz

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

Figuring Out the Future: How to Watch Jazz Games During a Transitional Year

The Utah Jazz have turned some heads early on, winning four of their first five with energy and defense. They’ve been a fun surprise. Things could even out rather quickly; they play nine of their next 14 on the road, they...

An Extremely Timely Introduction to the New Faces on the Utah Jazz

Hello Utah Jazz fan, enthusiast, and/or basketball masochist! Surely you’ve heard enough by now of Utah’s earth-shattering decision to move on from Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell. Utah acquired a giant bag of draft picks...

100 Predictions for the 2022-23 NBA Season

Ah, it’s wonderful to see: NBA basketball made its regular season return with a pair of heavyweight games on Tuesday night showcasing the revamped rosters of the 2022 NBA Finalists, the Boston Celtics and Golden State...

Let’s Lose Some Money Together: Sportsbook’s Preview of the 2022-23 Jazz

Unlike last year, I find myself with no tangible thoughts or strong feelings about the Utah Jazz as an on-court product. The Jazz are a fleeting, mild curiosity for much of the NBA cognoscenti; a rebuilding team with precisely...

Starting 5: Writers Weigh in on Surprises, Success Measures & the Future

What have we learned about today’s and tomorrow’s Jazz this October?Five Salt City Hoops writers react to what we’ve seen so far in the preseason of the new-look Utah Jazz, including by projecting the short and...