Salt City Seven: Defense Wins, Rubio Dishes, Exum Decides and More

And we’re back in business. Basketball that matters resumed this week in the world’s best league, and that means the Salt City Seven returns to the Jazz online community. The SC7 is our place to relive the previous...

Cuts, Extensions Make a Busy Weekend for Jazz Decision-Makers

While the rest of us spend this last non-NBA weekend of the year preparing for a 6-month basketball hibernation, the Jazz front office actually still has work to do. Go ahead: clean out the den, balance your checkbook, vacuum...

Schedule Spotlight: October a Season-Determining Start?

State of the Jazz The NBA’s 82-game regular season is a marathon. But in the West, competition is so intense that teams who aspire to reach the playoffs will need to sprint out of the gate. Utah’s ability to do that...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Prepping for a Gobert Statue

  Q: Umm… Dante Exum? @Mikeyvp I know…and I don’t get it. What does this kid have to do to get a full season of good basketball under his belt? Dude had been ballin’ (that’s how the teens say,...

What Exum’s Injury Means to Him, His Future, the Jazz

Right up until the moment when 230 pounds of shooting guard landed right on top of him, Dante Exum was having a terrific preseason. In fact, few Jazz players were playing as impressively relative to expectations and the...

Staff Scrimmage: Pecking Order of Jazz Player Value

The Salt City Hoops crew is back to answering the burning questions facing the Jazz this season. On Monday, five of our columnists and contributors kicked off the preseason by tackling topics such as the Jazz’s success and...

Staff Scrimmage: Jazz Predictions and Defining Success

Jazz basketball is back in mere hours, which makes it a good time to put a stake in the ground on some weighty issues. Welcome to the first “Staff Scrimmage” of the 2017 preseason, where five of our SCH contributors...

Training Camp, Media Day, etc. — Salt City Hoops Show

On this week’s episode of the Salt City Hoops Show, hosts Andy Larsen and Ben Anderson talk about the first week of Jazz happenings. Who has impressed, who hasn’t, and other news and notes from training camp and...

The Unlikely Transformation of Rodney Hood

Dennis Lindsey: “We believe Rodney Hood can be a primary scorer. It’s time for us to pivot, it’s time for us to move on.” — Andy Larsen (@andyblarsen) July 6, 2017 Following Gordon Hayward’s...

NBA Star Treatment Bias and Our Own Cognitive Biases

Benjamin Franklin once quipped, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” If dear old Ben were alive today he may have included a third certainly: death, taxes, and NBA fans complaining about...