Opinion

The Way We Play Here: Searching for Howie

Scoring an invitation to Monday night hoops in the gym on my Brooklyn block was a really big deal. I had figured out that the Jewish temple had a court in the basement because I had seen guys coming and going with basketballs the...

Mitchell, Gobert And the Balance Between Competitiveness and Cohesion

On Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, adversity, and the paradoxical nature of competitiveness and cohesion:Donovan Mitchell is a winner. He won in high school, going 34-1 in his senior year at Brewster Academy, which ended the...

Reclaim the Joy During This Special Jazz Era

My son, Donovan, was born April 14, 2019, a few hours before the Utah Jazz opened their first-round playoff series against James Harden and the Houston Rockets. As I held my first child in the hospital, Donovan Mitchell, Rudy...

For Gobert, Mitchell (and All of Us), Empathy is the Key to Moving Forward

This spring has delivered unprecedented challenges to millions. And yet somehow, it doesn’t feel like an exaggeration to say that nobody had a March quite like Jazz center Rudy Gobert.That doesn’t mean that his plight...

Are We There Yet? The Long Process Of Rebuilding

It’s hard to put an exact start time to the Jazz’s current rebuild. The beginning was more of a drunken stumble, with a few careless refurbishments of the marquee outside.  Then Dennis Lindsey came along and knocked...

Utah Jazz First Trimester Awards

It seems as if the NBA season just started a few weeks ago, but here we are, over a third of the way through the marathon. With that in mind, as we did last season–borrowing from ESPN.com’s Trimester...

The Natural Selection of Jazz Fans

I had a conversation with my dad the other day that went something like this: “So how are the Jazz doing this year?” To which I hesitantly responded, “ummm…not…great.” “Oh, so pretty much like normal...

Alec Burks Signs Long-Term Extension With Utah Jazz

This morning, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo reported that Alec Burks has been signed to a 4 year, $42 million dollar extension, an amount that can grow to up to $45 million if Burks reaches certain incentive clauses. In related...

10 Utah Jazz Season Predictions

The NBA season begins tonight, and the Jazz season begins tomorrow. I won’t waste any more than this sentence telling you all how excited I am: I’m excited. Without further ado, here are 10 of my predictions for the Jazz this...

Gordon Hayward’s Boast and the Path to Stardom

Pride cometh before a fall. In this case, Gordon Hayward’s social media post of video game pride preceded the fall of his website. This Tuesday afternoon, Gordon Hayward’s PR staff at Athlete Interactive posted an...