Schedule Strength Still a Factor For the Resurgent Jazz

To date in 2019, the Utah Jazz are a respectable 15-7. Considering the record alone, it doesn’t pop as much as something the team’s 29-6 over the final 35 games of the 2017-18 season. It gets much more respectable...

Donovan Mitchell Has Shed His Sophomore Slump

Donovan Mitchell entered this season with stratospheric expectations — and aspirations.This was only natural. Mitchell had become the most celebrated rookie prospect in the history of the Jazz franchise. Slam Dunk Champion....

Writer Panel: Keys and Expectations for the Jazz’s Stretch Run

Fifty-seven down. Twenty-five to go.The Utah Jazz’s season resumes Friday following the league’s All-Star break. The NBA has 48 more nights to sort out the jumble that is the Western Conference standings, and for the...

Each Jazz Player’s Season in a Single Stat

The All-Star break carries with it a host of annual assessments of how the season has gone. In that tradition, the following statistics approximate how the season has gone thus far for each player on the Utah Jazz. Rudy Gobert:...

Salt City Seven: The Stretch Run Begins, Jazz Hanging With the Best, Transition Scoring & More

The Salt City Seven drops every Monday throughout the regular season, with seven regular features meant to relive the week in Jazzland from various angles. Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that...

The DPOY Race Once Again Features a Dominant Gobert

While the Utah Jazz have certainly had their ups and downs this season, their reigning Defensive Player of the Year is in the midst of the best season of his career. Rudy Gobert is boasting averages of 15.2 points, 12.8 rebounds,...

The Warriors’ Late Push Proves Too Much for the Jazz

A slow start and a ragged finish proved too much for the Utah Jazz to overcome in their Tuesday visit to Golden State. Utah managed just 14 first-quarter points and later gave up a 20-4 Warriors run in the fourth quarter, enough...

No, the Jazz Are Not Mediocre

Post-deadline Jazz angst, right on time.No, none of Mike Conley, Otto Porter, or Nikola Mirotic are in a Jazz uniform. Yes, any of them would have made the team better. Yes, it’s fine to be disappointed. When chances to...

Salt City Seven: Jazz Stick Together, Big Week for Royce, Rudy Dominates & More

The Salt City Seven drops every Monday throughout the regular season, with seven regular features meant to relive the week in Jazzland from various angles. Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that...

No Move Was the Right Move for the Surging Jazz

Dennis Lindsey has not been shy about making trades during his tenure as general manager of the Utah Jazz. Lindsey’s roster-retooling moves have become a reoccurring theme, whether on draft night or in-season deals. Perhaps...