Vegas Preseason Win Total Summary: Let’s hope you didn’t bet on the Jazz

The 2010-2011 regular season is over, and out of curiosity I wanted to quantify this season’s biggest pleasant surprises and disappointments. In order to set a proper benchmark, I looked at the preseason over/under win...

Jazz Games of the Year

The fact that this year has been a bad year for Jazz fans should be undisputed. The team came into the year with an All-Star point guard, a Hall of Fame coach and postseason aspirations (this writer predicted 50 wins). The year...

What’s Next for Paul Millsap?

In 2006, the Jazz took a second...

Something to Believe In

In last night’s Jazz vs. Laker game, the Jazz were up only 1 point in the final seconds. It was crunch time, and Kobe called for the ball. He was ready to finish them off. Kobe entered Mamba mode, drove to the rim, lost...

Jazz – Lakers: It’s been a long time

The last time the Jazz beat the Lakers  at the Staples Center, Keith McLeod was starting over Deron Williams, Robert Whaley was an NBA player and not a future inmate, and Gordon Giricek/Greg Ostertag were still playing...

A Reversal of Fortunes

Any casual Jazz fan has noticed the incredible nosedive this year’s team has taken since the middle of the season. John Hollinger wrote about it in his Friday column on ESPN: It’s hard to remember now, but the Utah...

A few words with Andrew Kamenetzky

Tonight’s Jazz-Lakers game gives us a chance to check in with Andrew Kamenetzky of ESPN Los Angeles and the Land ‘O Lakers blog. The fortunes for the Jazz are down right now, but I had a few questions about the...

The Chicago Jazz

  Living in Minneapolis and without access to a private jet regulates me to either watching the NBA on TV or going to the Target Center and checking out a Timberwolves team that is one of only 6 NBA teams with a losing...

Two Questions for the Front Office

I don’t know how I missed this article the first time around (apparently need to update my reader), but NBA Confidential did a pretty awesome post on How Deron Williams Could Have Gone to New York Instead of New Jersey. It...

Podcast 03/29

The Salt City Hoops podcast is back after several weeks of recording and then gathering cobwebs on a jump drive in my bag. But we’re back, and I hope you don’t mind listening to Justin Davies and me talking about Al...