Utah Jazz

Reader Q&A as Jazz Secure Their Core With Extensions For Their All-Stars

Rudy Gobert joined fellow Jazz All-Star Donovan Mitchell on Sunday in committing to a long-term future in Utah. Gobert and the Jazz agreed to a 5-year contract extension that will pay him $205 million in total salary starting in...

Utah’s Unique Superstar: On Gobert’s Greatness, Continued Growth and Possible Extension

All-NBA center Rudy Gobert might be the league’s most misunderstood superstar. He also might be on the verge of being obscenely rich, which makes this a good time to try to suss out just how much impact he has on winning....

Rebuttal to Hollinger’s Blasting of the “All-in-er” Jazz

John Hollinger is a really smart guy. The University of Virginia grad (good school!) is a basketball analytics pioneer, renowned inventor of Player Efficiency Rating (PER), a MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference mainstay, and...

Jazz Improve Perimeter Depth With Late Signing of Ex-Bull Harrison

More than a week into training camp, the Jazz are still tweaking their roster. Utah reportedly added some perimeter depth by agreeing to terms with free agent guard Shaquille Harrison on Wednesday, per reports from Tony Jones...

The Favors Factor Explains Why Utah Passed On Adding a 3-and-D Wing

“Geez, the Jazz front office sure whiffed by forgetting to pick up a 3-and-D player.”Pretty much every offseason involves Twitter fans and couch pundits criticizing (or.. Twitter-cizing? Eh?) decisions made by GMs...

2020 Free Agent Tracker (With Thoughts On Jazz Fit For Each)

Bookmark this page now. You’ll be coming back to it. Trust me.Here is a list of literally every restricted and unrestricted free agent who finished last season on a standard NBA contract, listed in order of Wins Above...

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...