Taking Note of Toronto: What the Jazz Can Learn From the Newest NBA Champion

You’ve heard it before: the NBA is a copycat league. As soon as a franchise charts a new path to the mountaintop, 29 other brain trusts immediately start thinking about how to apply that model. That is especially true when...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Potential Jazz Draft Picks

Following an NBA team should be fun, and Jimbo Rudding makes sure it is. Jimbo is our resident mailbag artist at Salt City Hoops, providing our regular dose of levity as he answers questions with his signature blend of...

Another Round of Jazz Q&A as Offseason Targets Come into Focus

The draft and free agency are creeping closer, which means the operative questions in Jazz world are coming into focus. We’re also getting a better sense of which players might be truly available on July 1. For example, the...

A Look at the Utah Jazz Free Agent Mini Camp Participants

There were not too many highlights in the Utah Jazz’s first round loss to the Houston Rockets. But one bright spot was certainly the play of swing-man Royce O’Neale.The gritty, ever hustling O’Neale was arguably...

Exploring Alternatives to Tobias Harris Up Front

If you were to poll all of Jazz Nation on who their number one free agent target is this offseason, a vast majority of them would say Tobias Harris, and for good reason. He is an incredible talent and would seemingly fit...

Eyeing PG Options Not Named Walker

Throughout the season, the areas of opportunity for the Utah Jazz became more and more clear. The first-round playoff loss to the Rockets magnified some of those needs, as I wrote earlier this month. With the end of the playoffs...

More Summer Q&A: Front Office Shuffle, Targeting Defense, and… a Hayward Sequel?

The offseason rolls on, which means the questions keep coming.Jazz fans (and SCH readers) are curious how the summer will play out for Utah, especially after a season that has many people wanting to accelerate the process of...

Ranking the Jazz’s Off-Season Priorities

For the second year in a row, the Utah Jazz had a lackluster start to the season, followed by a dominant second half. I don’t use that word lightly either. Over the second half of the last two seasons, they are a combined...

Offseason Q&A Volume 2: Jazz Targets, Positional Priorities & Cap Tools

Our first call for readers to submit offseason questions was met with such fervor that there were way too many questions to answer all at once. I already posted Volume 1, with questions and answers about current Jazzmen and their...

Offseason Q&A Volume 1: Keeping Favors, Korver’s Unclear Future & Other Answers About Current Jazzmen

There were way too many questions submitted for this first installment of the offseason Q&A to handle them all at once. So let’s make like a magician with a saw and split this thing in two.This first round of questions...