May 4th, 2015 | by
Aaron Hefner 1. Will the Jazz trade up, trade down, trade out, or keep their pick in the draft? Dan Clayton: Assuming it’s pick #12, I still think their preference is to trade it for the right complementary veteran. The way Dennis...
May 4th, 2015 | by
Dakota Schmidt As was apparent during last week’s draft profile piece on Kevon Looney, one of the big themes throughout this series has been Utah using their lottery pick on a young, high-upside prospect. That angle is going to...
May 1st, 2015 | by
Clark Schmutz I’m sure every Jazz fan has tried to figure out just how good the Jazz are, or will be, next season. And I’m sure every fan has gotten carried away to some extent, dreaming of 50-win seasons and pushing for...
May 1st, 2015 | by
Jimbo Rudding Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag! At Salt City Hoops, we know that covering a losing 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...
April 30th, 2015 | by
Dan Clayton All across Jazz communities both real and virtual, the Kool-Aid is freely flowing. The Utah Jazz, 32-23 since mid December and 19-10 since the All-Star break, have create some real believers. They have an identity, the beginnings...
April 28th, 2015 | by
Ben Dowsett Many a Jazz fan will look back on July 14th, 2014 as a source of retroactive pride. That was the day the Jazz matched Charlotte’s four-year, $63 million offer in restricted free agency to Gordon Hayward, locking him up for at...
April 27th, 2015 | by
Dakota Schmidt One of the big themes that has been evident throughout this draft prospect profile series has been the Jazz’s potential pursuit of a stretch four. We’ve touched on a few prospects that could potentially fill that need...
April 21st, 2015 | by
Ben Dowsett Back in late October, I made a list of 10 predictions for the upcoming Jazz season. Some were more outlandish than others, but each almost certainly prompted some percentage of my readership to think to themselves, “I can’t...
April 20th, 2015 | by
Dan Clayton When the calendar flipped to 2015, head coach Quin Snyder suggested to his squad that they compartmentalize the remaining games into more manageable 10-game chunks as a means of marking progress. We’re doing the same for...
April 16th, 2015 | by
Dan Clayton The book is closed on a transformative season of Utah Jazz basketball. Or, if you’ve been paying attention to head coach Quin Snyder, several mini-seasons. On January 1, with exactly 50 games remaining, Snyder proposed to his...