ROY Redo: Could Mitchell and Simmons Compete For Hardware Again?

After competing head-to-head for Rookie of the Year honors in 2018, could Donovan Mitchell and Ben Simmons face off in this year’s MVP race? As dark horse MVP candidates go, it’s a scenario I could see happening.First, I...

FINAL UPDATE 9/15 – FIBA Tracker: Jazz’s Best on Display in China

With a roster that features the global diversity of a United Nations subcommittee, there’s always a decent chance that someone in the Utah Jazz’s employ can be found in some international tournament somewhere. This...

No RoCo: Why the Jazz Won’t Be Major Trade Players For Now

NBA news slows to a trickle in August, the quietest point of the year for the league. There are still nearly two months before opening night for the NBA and the eyes of the basketball world have turned to the FIBA World Cup,...

Utah Jazz: Predicting the 2019-20 Season

The recent release of the 2019-20 NBA schedule signals that basketball is seemingly just around the corner. Most teams should be starting up their training camps in late September, and then preseason basketball will kick off on...

Utah Jazz: Breaking down the 2019-20 schedule

In the doldrums of the NBA off-season, die-hard NBA fans will devour any morsel they can get of NBA news and analysis. With the recent release of the 2019-20 NBA schedule, it has created a whole week’s worth of content, and...

Staff Post: The Jazz’s Place in the WC, Impact of Additions, Starting Spots & More

The waiting-for-Woj-alert-texts part of the NBA offseason is mostly behind us. Which means the step-back-and-figure-out-what-just-happened part of the offseason is here.We’re on it.Five Salt City Hoops writers take on the...

Sorting Out the Still-Wild West: Offseason Recaps & Tiers For All 15 Teams

The field is set. Fifteen Western Conference clubs are mostly done with their major personnel moves, which means we can start to suss out the power structure after a major talent shakeup across the NBA.Of course, ranking teams at...

The Jazz Can’t Afford to Overlook Denver

The excitement level surrounding the Utah Jazz has reached levels perhaps unknown to a certain generation of Jazz fans. That generation very much includes me, who just turned 27. That means I was just 5 years old when John...

Get to Know Utah’s Four Free Agent Additions

For a team in a smaller market like the Utah Jazz, adding high end talent through free agency is always going to be a more difficult task. That is why the Mike Conley trade was such a major win for the team. If Utah had...

Another Western Shakeup + The Shifting Value of Picks

Every time it feels like the basketball community might finally be wrapping its collective head around the power structure in the NBA’s Western Conference, something of tectonic proportions happens.Mike Conley to the Jazz....