Derrick Favors

JazzRank 3: Derrick Favors

  As one of many Jazz fans who has gushed over Derrick Favors and his enormous potential, I feel obligated to write a well-reasoned justification for the reckless promotion of the Favors Hype Machine. Here is that...

Jazz drop close one in Boston, Hayward silences KG

The Jazz missed a perfect chance to steal a win in Boston last night, but failed to take advantage after Rajon Rondo left with an injury. Also, someday I’d like to replay the final few minutes and maybe not have Mo Williams...

Some highlights from Jazz-Mavs

It’s a little late, but I wanted to preserve a few things for posterity. The third quarter of this game was a thing of beauty–may all teams coming into Salt Lake be on the second night of a back-to-back. Regardless of...

2012-13 Jazz Season Predictions

With the first game of the 2012-13 season only a few hours away, it’s time to go on record with predictions. This season we’ll be using a clever breakdown by Geoff Beckstrom (@vegasstats) that shows what games are...

Fan interview with Jazz president Randy Rigby

  By Alan Zaugg Special to Salt City Hoops...

JazzRank 10: DeMarre Carroll

As we move into the top 10 of JazzRank, we start to see the biases of bloggers show forth. If bloggers are simultaneously fans and writers who make no effort to distinguish between those two roles, then we have a right to eschew...

Stockton and Malone enter the Utah Sports Hall of Fame

via KSL /...

Preseason Game 5: Clippers 96 – Jazz 94

No grades from this game, even though I was thoroughly entertained. The only thing that needs to be remembered for posterity is the Jeremy Evans Block/Dunk/Steal end-to-end-to-end play shown above. The boxscore shows that the...

Preseason Game 4: Jazz 114 – Lakers 80

I loved everything about this game. I don’t even care that it’s the preseason. Anytime the Jazz can win by 34 points and the home fans still get to watch a vintage Kobe performance, everybody wins. It was a great...

Karl Malone teaches the pick and roll, calls Shaq and Barkley the worst PnR defenders

So many things to love in this clip of Karl Malone demonstrating the pick and roll on the NBA TV set recently. It’s all great, but I especially enjoyed his point of emphasis to “make sure Ostertag is out of the...