End of Summer Odds Update for the 2015-16 NBA Season

The landscape of the NBA could be very different this time next year. Teams that were on the outside looking in have now etched their way back into contention, while others have fallen deeper into irrelevance. The 2015 offseason...

Derrick Favors is Really, Really Good

To Utah Jazz faithful, the title of this post may seem like stating the obvious. Derrick Favors indeed is very good. Nothing shocking here. Yet recent events have caused one to feel that the rest of the NBA seems to be less...

Examining Tibor Pleiss’s Eurobasket Performance Against Serbia

For most Jazz fans, the first opportunity that they have to get a look at newly signed 7’2 center Tibor Pleiss is during Eurobasket 2015. Playing with the German squad alongside the likes of Dennis Schroder and Dirk Nowitzki,...

Future Finance Watch Part II: 2017-18

Let’s continue our look ahead into the Jazz’s dozens of contingency options and an ever-changing cap sheet. As covered in part one of this two-part look, Utah has definitely given itself a number of different...

Future Finance Watch Part I: This Season and Next

Cap space doesn’t score buckets, and financial flexibility has never hoisted a Larry O’Brien Trophy. The value of keeping financial doors open is limited to the sum of what teams are able to do in leveraging that...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Improving the Jazz Game Experience

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...

Player to Watch: Rodney Hood

The NBA off-season, especially the months of August and September, are always interesting. With little news out there — especially after the joy that is June and July — it can sometimes be a struggle for basketball...

Organic Cotton: How Bryce Might Be Utah’s Best Fit at PG

It seems strange to label any point guard on Utah’s roster a forgotten man given all the attention paid to the position this summer, but that’s just what Bryce Cotton has become to a degree. Despite a strong close to the...

5 on 5: Offseason in the Rear View Mirror

1. On a scale of 1 – 10 (1 being absolutely no agreement and 10 being complete agreement), how closely do you agree with the front office’s decisions this summer? Aaron Hefner: 6. While I don’t think the Jazz needed...

Jimbo’s Mailbag: Why Everyone Hates Gordon Hayward

Q: Which player will snap during a game this year and commit a flagrant foul against Hayward a la Aaron Afflalo and Delonte West? @Mare_Bear_Baum Great question! Also, congrats on the pregnancy, Maren! I think it’s hilarious...