Salt City Seven: Six Team Race, Deadline, Top Performers & More

The Utah Jazz used a 7-game winning streak to ensure they’d go into the All-Star break with a .500 record. A Wednesday stumble aside, momentum is back in Utah’s favor. As we take a step back to bring things into...

Jazz Streak Ends in New Orleans: Thoughts on Holidays and Threes

Well, dang, you can’t win ‘em all. You can’t blame Jazz fans for being greedy: Taking a 7-game winning streak into New Orleans to play the struggling Pelicans, an 8th win seemed a decent bet. But it wasn’t to be, as the...

NBA All-Time Leader in Points Accounted For: John Stockton?

As part of an interesting effort spanning the past month or so, a few media outlets have taken to ranking the NBA’s greats. Usually an activity reserved for the dreary doldrums of August and September in the basketball...

Hayward’s Dagger Downs Dallas

Prior to tonight’s clash with the Dallas Mavericks, the Utah Jazz were the second hottest team in the association thanks to a six game winning streak. The Mavericks, on the other hand, had been struggling as of late, losing...

Party Like It’s 1978: Jazz Beat Bucks

The Bucks play hoops like it’s 1978, and tonight the Jazz should have as well. There were a host of odd things about Utah’s 84 – 81 victory over Milwaukee, but three point shooting was, for the second night in...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – New Alternate Jazz Uniforms

Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag! At Salt City Hoops, we know that covering a team without any humor can be dreary. As such, we decided to add a little bit more levity to our site via Jimbo’s unique outlook on...

Salt City Seven: The Favors Effect, Seeking Stars and More

So much was going on last week that we barely touched on Derrick Favors’ return. We’ll start there this week, but we also have game balls to give out, a massively important play to share, numbers, quotes and...

Sluggish Jazz Take Care of Nuggets, 85-81

The Utah Jazz used a balanced scoring effort and some gritty defense to escape with another close win and extend their win streak to four in a row after a battle against the Denver Nuggets. Despite Danilo Gallinari’s 24-point...

Trade Talk, Rookie Rankings, Dan Clayton, & More – Salt City Hoops Show

On this week’s episode of the Salt City Hoops Show, we talk more about trade possibilities for the Utah Jazz with the trade deadline just over two weeks away. What is the likelihood the Jazz make a trade? Hosts Zach Harper...

Who Drives the Train for the Utah Jazz?

On March 20th, 2015, Dennis Lindsey was giving an interview on 1280 the Zone and he offered this assessment in regards to evaluating talent, specifically last year’s draft prospects from the University of Kentucky:...