Draft

Podcast: Lottery Letdown and Despair (Hope?) for the Utah Jazz

A preposterous NBA Lottery result prompted an emergency podcast from Dan Clayton (@danclayt0n) and Mark Russell Pereira (@markrussellpereira.bsky.social) to get out feelings on why the Jazz fell and why…everyone...

Teams Who Can Get The No. 1 Pick, Ranked

Editor’s note: There are 13 teams who can win the draft lottery at 5pm MDT on Monday. Mark Russell Pereira explains his rooting interests for who he thinks should (and shouldn’t) come away with the No. 1 overall...

Group Think: What Will the Jazz Draft Look Like?

The NBA’s collective eyes are focused on Barclays Center, where the NBA draft will tip off at 8:00 p.m. EDT Wednesday night. As basketball fans ourselves, our eyes are pointed that direction as well, anticipating the Utah...

The Cost of Utah’s Lotto Slide and the Value of 10 (plus the Big Picture)

Here’s a fun fact: only three teams that have been in the NBA for the entirety of the lottery era have never improved their anticipated draft position on lottery day: the Denver Nuggets, the Dallas Mavericks and the Utah...

Answering questions about Utah’s recent moves

With free agency only double digits hours away, things are happening in Jazzland almost faster than we can respond to them. Just in the last week:The Jazz drafted Taylor Hendricks, Keyonte George, and Brice Sensabaugh;Then traded...

Jazz Draft Haul Shows Emphasis on Shooting, Size

When the Utah Jazz’s season ended in April, club CEO Danny Ainge already had a pretty good idea what he’d be shopping for this summer: “Shooting with size,” he said in his end-of-season media...

Picks on the Move: 23 Years of Draft Trade Precedent

The NBA’s offseason player movement machine always revs into high gear right around the draft, but this is already primed to be a wild June. On an otherwise sleepy summer afternoon, the marketplace swung open on Sunday with...

With Lotto Order Set, Utah’s Other Picks May Signal Desires

 There were no wild surprises in the NBA Draft Lottery on Tuesday night. There was some slight reshuffling in the top five — league-worst Detroit fell all the way to fifth — but six through 14 went chalk. The...

Who Has Had the Most (and Fewest) Top Three Picks?

Championship teams require several elements to come together. Good ownership, good management, good coaching, and good talent. They also need a little luck from time to time. Good talent can acquired through trades and free...

Here’s Johnny: Only Minor Moves for the Jazz on Draft Night

The 2022 NBA Draft was full of activity, with 27 of 30 NBA teams participating and picks and prospects being traded back and forth but the Utah Jazz started the night without any 2022 draft picks and did not acquire any during...