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Ben Dowsett’s Jazz Big Board: Part II
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Ben Dowsett’s Jazz Big Board: Part II

June 24th, 2015 | by Ben Dowsett
  Welcome to Part II of my Jazz Big Board! If you missed Part I yesterday, be sure to give it a read. Without further ado, here are picks 7-12 on my own personalized Jazz board: 7. Stanley Johnson My general thoughts on...
Ben Dowsett’s Jazz Big Board: Part I
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Ben Dowsett’s Jazz Big Board: Part I

June 23rd, 2015 | by Ben Dowsett
The time is nearly upon us. In just over two days, one of the more intriguing and fluid draft classes in recent years will finally be determined on a stage in New York City. We’ve had months of opining, hypothesizing, and...
Utah Jazz Draft Prospects: Justin Anderson
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Utah Jazz Draft Prospects: Justin Anderson

June 23rd, 2015 | by Dakota Schmidt
I’ve always fallen for an athletic, defensive-minded wing that’s projected to go late in the first round. While prospects like Jamaal Franklin (2013) and KJ McDaniels (2014) have had mixed success on the NBA level, it...
Pickonomics: The Market Value of Draft Ranges
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Pickonomics: The Market Value of Draft Ranges

June 18th, 2015 | by Dan Clayton
The NBA is a strange little marketplace, especially in June. There are a finite number of actors — 30 — and it’s never entirely clear who’s buying versus selling. The merchandise is NBA talent, which as...
Utah Jazz Draft Prospects 2015: Trey Lyles
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Utah Jazz Draft Prospects 2015: Trey Lyles

June 16th, 2015 | by Dakota Schmidt
Throughout this prospect profile series, I’ve maintained a high level of optimism while discussing these players. Every prospect that I’ve profiled has a few flaws to their game, but their strengths have been consistently...
Jazz Workout Features Portis, Looney, Connaughton
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Jazz Workout Features Portis, Looney, Connaughton

June 5th, 2015 | by Ben Dowsett
The Jazz held another in a string of pre-draft workouts Thursday, with six more hopefuls convening on Zion’s Bank Basketball Center. While these workouts are common this time of year, Thursday’s was the first so far in this...
On Best Player Available, Upside, and Draft Unknowns
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On Best Player Available, Upside, and Draft Unknowns

June 3rd, 2015 | by Ben Dowsett
Often lost in a pre-draft shuffle packed full of proclamations from “experts” up and down the spectrum of legitimacy is a simple fact: None of us are all that good at predicting how draft prospects are going to turn out. This...
Utah Jazz Draft Prospects 2015: Jerian Grant
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Utah Jazz Draft Prospects 2015: Jerian Grant

June 2nd, 2015 | by Dakota Schmidt
As we’re now less than a month away from the NBA Draft, the discussion about what the Jazz will do with that 12th pick is flowing freely. Over the course of this prospect profile series, we’ve already covered most of the...
Kaminsky’s Place in the Lottery
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Kaminsky’s Place in the Lottery

May 27th, 2015 | by Sponsored Content
There were no miracles for the Utah Jazz on lottery night as they ended up with the No. 12 overall pick for this year’s NBA Draft. But the quality of players being discussed as possible Utah picks really demonstrate how strong...
Utah Jazz Draft Prospects 2015: Bobby Portis
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Utah Jazz Draft Prospects 2015: Bobby Portis

May 25th, 2015 | by Dakota Schmidt
Whether fair or not, my brain automatically puts a draft prospect into a particular role once I watch enough film of him. A couple months ago I mentioned Wisconsin stud Frank Kaminsky, who would make for the perfect 3rd big...