Utah Jazz

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...

How a Cap Maneuver Could Drop Conley’s 2020-21 Price, Extend His Stay in Utah

On the surface, Jazz guard Mike Conley has one of the easiest decisions anybody will make during this weird NBA offseason. Because of the deal he originally signed in Memphis before being traded to the Jazz in 2019, he has the...

Clutch Stops Highlight Gobert’s Incredibly Underrated Season

If a game-saving block was considered as exciting or valuable as a game-winning shot, Rudy Gobert’s 2019-20 season would go down as one of the greatest seasons of all time. However, just like his entire career, the All-NBA...