Fun Facts About Your Favorite NBA Referees

The NBA just released its 2013-14 Referee Media Guide, which you can download here. It’s a wonderful document full of NBA refereeing minutia, perfect for basketball nerds who have come to know the referees’ names...

48 Minutes In: What We Know So Far About the Young Jazz

Have you heard the phrase about “knowing just enough to be dangerous”? That’s where we as a Jazz community are right now. We finally have real basketball to dissect, with the first 48 minutes of the new-era Jazz...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz vs. Thunder 10-30-2013

1. The Core Four showed a lot of ability. With the injury to Trey Burke, there’s no need to fabricate new names for the Jazz’s dynamic young team; the moniker “Core Four” suffices. And indeed, Utah’s...

Who is Mike Harris?

Saturday, in addition to bringing back veteran point guard Jamaal Tinsley, the Utah Jazz released five players in order to get to their final Opening Day roster. After the dust cleared, Mike Harris was the lone training camp free...

JazzRank #1: Gordon Hayward – A Roundtable

Editor’s note: This is the last in the annual series from Salt City Hoops ranking the current players on the Utah Jazz roster. Throughout the preseason, we’ll count up through the current Jazz roster, from worst to first,...

JazzRank #2: Derrick Favors’ Time to Shine

Editor’s note: This is the penultimate in the annual series from Salt City Hoops ranking the current players on the Utah Jazz roster. Throughout the preseason, we’ll count up through the current Jazz roster, from worst to...

Quick Thoughts on John Lucas III and Jamaal Tinsley, Jazz Opening Night PGs

I went to two of the preseason games in Los Angeles last week and came away with a few thoughts. The main thought was that our point guard play was pretty atrocious. Not completely surprising given Trey Burke’s injury, but...

JazzRank #3: Enes Kanter

Approximately seven years ago, I started a new job with an insurance company.  (I know this is quite possibly the most boring lede ever, but stick with me.) After seven years of learning the fascinating ins and outs of the...

JazzRank #4: Brandon Rush

Projecting Brandon Rush’s season is an exciting exercise in the same way that flipping a coin is exciting. To Jazz fans, the Jazz’s recently acquired shooting guard is an enigma. He’s the only player on the...

Derrick Favors – Was the Extension for Too Much?

One of the largest challenges in managing an NBA franchise outside a major market will always be the inherently unbalanced nature of free agency within the league.  The big boys just have the deck stacked in their favor in too...