Jazz Signal Offseason Plan with Trade Acquiring Jefferson, Biedrins, Rush, and Picks from GSW

In a slowly announced trade Friday, the Jazz revealed part of their blueprint by taking on the contracts of Richard Jefferson, Andris Biedrins, Brandon Rush from the Golden State Warriors. The move frees up cap space for the...

Jazz & Free Agency: The Sound of Silence

NBA free agency is a few days old, and so far the most exciting rumor to come out of the Intermountain West is that it’s the location of Dwight Howard’s $100 million game of Eeny-meeny-miny-moe. Even that is on the...

How Did the Jazz Do in the Draft?: NBA Draft Grades Compilation

It’s been almost a week since Dennis Lindsey, Kevin O’Connor, and the Miller family injected some amazing energy into the Utah Jazz faithful. In many ways, Hope is Renewed, or, at the minimum, greatly increased. The...

With Burke, Gobert, Neto, and Lindsey: Hope Renewed

  This is the story of how a GQ model, a towering Frenchman and flashy yet soft-spoken Brazilian gave throngs of Jazz fans hope, and how a soft-spoken southern gentleman with an endearing Texas twang brought them together....

Gal Mekel (PG, Israel) Scouting Video

Editor note: After spending hours on this video scouting of Israeli PG Gal Mekel (a player who the Jazz have reportedly been interested in for years), Dan Clayton eagerly sent it to me yesterday afternoon, asking me if I wanted...

Salt City Hoops Saturday Show: Free Agency Plan Contest

In this week’s episode of the Salt City Hoops Saturday Show, we bring together 5 different bloggers from Jazzland: Andy Larsen, Dan Clayton, Laura Thompson, Clark Schmutz, and Peter Novak, and have them give their version...

Trey Burke as Chris Paul

The Jazz stunned the world in 2005 when they took Deron Williams over Chris Paul with the third overall pick in the NBA draft. Thought by many to be the superior candidate for a team in desperate need of a solid point guard,...

What This Draft Shows Us About The Jazz (aka In Dennis Lindsey We Trust)

I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited for a draft as I was this one, and I know I’ve never been as pleased with the results of a draft as this one (I was in diapers when Stockton was drafted, though maybe I booed...

Drafting Relevance

“The draft doesn’t matter. We’ll let you guys draft the talented ones and find the hidden gems each year, and then we’ll just sign them away from you in free agency.” – A direct quote from my Laker-fan coworker....

Jazz Free Agency Primer ’13

Several months’ worth of draft geekery is winding down, which only means it’s time to shift the focus to another crop of players and another set of complicated rules: NBA free agency is days away. Don’t fear,...