Jazz 96 – Blazers 94: A Nice End to the Regular Season

With the playoff bid all wrapped up, the Jazz took the opportunity to play their JV team big minutes. The most important moment of the night, however, took place even before the opening tip. Enes Kanter took the mic and, well,...

Free Steve Nash: Appreciating the Nash in Phoenix Era

Genuinely believing that the Jazz would beat the Suns on Tuesday night and clinch the final berth to the playoffs, I decided to invite over one of my friends to watch the game with me. Under different circumstances, I would...

Jazz 100 – Suns 88: The Elimination Game

Phoenix Suns 88 Final Recap | Box Score 100 Utah Jazz Paul Millsap, PF 41 MIN | 10-18 FG | 6-11 FT | 15 REB | 4 AST | 26 PTS | +21I’m giving all the players A+’s on this game because PLAYOFFS! But Millsap...

The greatest video in the history of hot tub videos featuring John Stockton

Today at shootaround before tonight’s epic Jazz matchup with the Phoenix Suns, I had a conversation with KSL sports anchor Jeremiah Jenson. At some point, Jeremiah casually mentioned that he’d recently found a video...

One Foot on a Platform, the Other on a Train

Over the past two weeks, the Western playoff hunt has gone from a five-team chase for the last three spots to a two-team chase for the eighth spot. Thankfully (eat your heart out, tankers), the Jazz are one of them, with only the...

Jazz sign Blake Ahearn for the remainder of the season

Nice to see the Jazz sign D-League call-up Blake Ahearn for the remainder of the season. I got to see Ahearn play up close several times when I covered the Utah Flash and he was usually the best player on the floor. Here’s...

Introducing the KFAN Salt City Hoops Show

I’m excited to announce the launch of the KFAN Salt City Hoops Show, which will debut live on the 1320 KFAN airwaves starting this Saturday at 11am. You can listen at 1320 AM or online at http://1320kfan.com/  The show...

Jazz 123 – Mavs 121: The Triple Overtime Wet Willy Game

Games like this are the reason I love professional basketball. Could I interest you in a German-speaking giraffe that can play basketball? How about a slightly unhinged ginger who gives wet willies to his opponents? Perhaps a...

Jazz 98 – Grizzlies 103

Utah Jazz 98 Final Recap | Box Score 103 Memphis Grizzlies Paul Millsap, PF 38 MIN | 8-15 FG | 0-2 FT | 7 REB | 1 AST | 17 PTS | 0 Is there any trait of this Jazz team more perplexing than Millsap’s...

The Location of Jazz Nation

There’s a dichotomy, used in linguistics and in literary criticism, used to describe the relationship between words and their referents. The word we speak or write for referent is called “the signifier” while...