Utah Jazz

Choosing to Believe

Before Manu Ginobili was a franchise icon, a four-time NBA champion and a surefire Hall of Famer, he was a nervous  youngster wondering if he belonged in the world’s best basketball league. And even on the April evening...

Team USA Summer Foreshadows a New Complexity for Mitchell

Donovan Mitchell is in a great place. Let’s just get that out of the way first. He’s fine.Yes, you heard some of the same specious narratives surface about Mitchell after his experience with USA Basketball this...

Injury-Resistant Jazz? Surviving Through Bumps & Bruises With Versatile Depth

The Jazz are going to be good. That much we have pretty well estbalished after their splashy offseason acquisitions.But an underdiscussed element of the club’s roster-building success is the number of guys on the team with...

ROY Redo: Could Mitchell and Simmons Compete For Hardware Again?

After competing head-to-head for Rookie of the Year honors in 2018, could Donovan Mitchell and Ben Simmons face off in this year’s MVP race? As dark horse MVP candidates go, it’s a scenario I could see happening.First, I...

FINAL UPDATE 9/15 – FIBA Tracker: Jazz’s Best on Display in China

With a roster that features the global diversity of a United Nations subcommittee, there’s always a decent chance that someone in the Utah Jazz’s employ can be found in some international tournament somewhere. This...

No RoCo: Why the Jazz Won’t Be Major Trade Players For Now

NBA news slows to a trickle in August, the quietest point of the year for the league. There are still nearly two months before opening night for the NBA and the eyes of the basketball world have turned to the FIBA World Cup,...

Utah Jazz: Predicting the 2019-20 Season

The recent release of the 2019-20 NBA schedule signals that basketball is seemingly just around the corner. Most teams should be starting up their training camps in late September, and then preseason basketball will kick off on...

Utah Jazz: Breaking down the 2019-20 schedule

In the doldrums of the NBA off-season, die-hard NBA fans will devour any morsel they can get of NBA news and analysis. With the recent release of the 2019-20 NBA schedule, it has created a whole week’s worth of content, and...

Staff Post: The Jazz’s Place in the WC, Impact of Additions, Starting Spots & More

The waiting-for-Woj-alert-texts part of the NBA offseason is mostly behind us. Which means the step-back-and-figure-out-what-just-happened part of the offseason is here.We’re on it.Five Salt City Hoops writers take on the...

Sorting Out the Still-Wild West: Offseason Recaps & Tiers For All 15 Teams

The field is set. Fifteen Western Conference clubs are mostly done with their major personnel moves, which means we can start to suss out the power structure after a major talent shakeup across the NBA.Of course, ranking teams at...