June 22nd, 2015 | by
Clint Johnson Rudy Gobert makes the Utah Jazz a defensive powerhouse. After Gobert’s insertion into the starting lineup following the trade of Enes Kanter, the Jazz became the NBA’s new It! team – with Gobert himself the...
June 19th, 2015 | by
Jimbo Rudding Here at Salt City Hoops, we’re occasionally accused of being too analytical. Basketball is a fun sport, they say, and we’re being too objective about it. Jumbo Rudding, on the other hand, is not analytical. He is zany. He...
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...
June 17th, 2015 | by
Ben Dowsett In a 2015 Finals series that was exhilarating for so many reasons, perhaps most intriguing for the nerds among us was the back-and-forth chess match between coaches. Steve Kerr and David Blatt traded haymakers in the form of...
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...
June 14th, 2015 | by
Ryan Hess Perhaps more so than any of the other major professional sports, luck is a major factor in winning a championship in the NBA. In the 1996-97 season, the San Antonio Spurs finished with a record of 20-62, despite having completed...
June 12th, 2015 | by
Andy Larsen Here are some additional notes and quotes from my interview with and KSL profile of Steve Starks this week. We talked for over 30 minutes about a ton of different topics, and I couldn’t fit all of them into my article...
June 12th, 2015 | by
Jimbo Rudding Here at Salt City Hoops, we’re occasionally accused of being too analytical. Basketball is a fun sport, they say, and we’re being too objective about it. Jumbo Rudding, on the other hand, is not analytical. He is zany. He...
June 12th, 2015 | by
Clint Johnson NBA divisions made a strong case that they are still relevant this year. The regular season survival-of-all-fittest that was the Southwest Division, which featured five playoff teams totaling 261 combined wins, drastically...
June 10th, 2015 | by
Andy Larsen On this week’s episode of the Salt City Hoops Show, Andy Larsen and Ben Dowsett eat significant crow as the Cavaliers have taken 2-1 series lead. After being so confident that the Warriors would run away with this series,...
