Ben Dowsett’s Jazz Big Board: Part I

The time is nearly upon us. In just over two days, one of the more intriguing and fluid draft classes in recent years will finally be determined on a stage in New York City. We’ve had months of opining, hypothesizing, and...

Utah Jazz Draft Prospects: Justin Anderson

I’ve always fallen for an athletic, defensive-minded wing that’s projected to go late in the first round. While prospects like Jamaal Franklin (2013) and KJ McDaniels (2014) have had mixed success on the NBA level, it...

Former Jazzmen Who Became NBA Champions

One of the best teams in NBA history, the Golden State Warriors are the new world champions — very well-deserved. After winning 67 games and displaying some of the best advanced stats ever, they finished the job and...

Rudy Gobert’s Offensive Repercussions

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...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – The Utah Jazz Select…

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...

NBA Draft Preview with Layne Vashro – Salt City Hoops Show on ESPN700

On this week’s episode of the Salt City Hoops Show, we lead off with talk of draft trades. We take 11 different suggestions from our audience on Twitter, and evaluate ideas for trading up, down, in, or out of this...

Pickonomics: The Market Value of Draft Ranges

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...

Pondering Small Ball for the Jazz

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...

Utah Jazz Draft Prospects 2015: Trey Lyles

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...

Dennis Lindsey Channels his Inner Daft Punk

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...