The Utah Jazz were able to conquer their troubles on the road in their latest 130-126 win vs. the Memphis Grizzlies, where there were a ton of positives to highlight en route to their ninth win of the regular season.
For the fourth straight season, the Utah Jazz are seemingly in a rebuilding phase. After all, the Utah Jazz have a terrible 9-15 record following their first 24 matchups of the 2025-26 NBA season.
The Utah Jazz's latest 120-116 win over the Memphis Grizzlies was a game in which third-year guard Keyonte George wound up being the best player on the floor for either side by putting together a career-high 39-point outing, providing a major spark on the offensive end that led to victory number nine on the season.
In a contest against the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night, Keyonte George was on fire. He scored 39 points on 12-20 shooting from the field as he made mincemeat of a Grizzlies defense that was scrambling for ways to slow down the nascent Utah Jazz guard.
Christmas and the NBA go hand-in-hand. The day serves for the top hoops league in the world, like Thanksgiving for the NFL. However, while the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys are perpetual Thanksgiving participants, the NBA has mixed up the matchups and the teams throughout the years.
Keyonte George scored a career-high 39 points, Lauri Markkanen added 26 and Kevin Love had a season-best 20 to lead the visiting Utah Jazz to a 130-126 victory Friday over the Memphis Grizzlies.
Kevin Love doesn't play a lot of minutes for the Utah Jazz. Friday, the 37-year-old turned back the block and reminded the world he's an NBA champion and Hall of Famer.
It looks like Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant will be back in the lineup to face the Utah Jazz for his first time on the floor in over three weeks. According to the Grizzlies' latest injury report update, Morant has been upgraded from questionable to probable to play against the Jazz.
With the unofficial opening of NBA trade season right around the corner on December 15th, it's as good a time as ever to open the discussion of which players might be on the move over the coming weeks as trade buzz and deals start getting louder across the league.
In the latest Stein Line, Marc Stein reiterated his latest on the Lauri Markkanen situation. From Stein: Reminder: The Jazz, as Jake and I have been reporting in recent weeks, have left numerous teams with the impression that they want to keep Markkanen and add around him rather than part with him.
The Utah Jazz, through the ups and downs of another rebuilding season, have wound up seeing some major bright spots out of their third-year guard Keyonte George.
In the midst of the Utah Jazz's latest blowout loss to the reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder, two players down the rotation saw their playing time cut unusually short compared to their typical minutes out on the floor.
Utah Jazz head coach Will Hardy lost his cool during a timeout in the team’s latest loss, and a fan captured the outburst on video. The Jazz fell to 8-15 on Sunday with a 131-101 home loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Bailey is a prominent figure in Utah's youth movement. At 19 years old and 6-foot-9 tall, the Jazz's No. 5 overall pick has quickly grabbed attention, not only from fans eager to see the future, but from a veteran who understands that kind of spotlight all too well.
The Utah Jazz are still in the process of figuring out their long-term closer, which is understandable for a rebuilding team The absence of a go-to option in the clutch signals something bigger than a single missed shot — it points to uncertainty about the team’s identity and how it chooses to finish games.
Many around the league are starting to believe the Jazz have made up their minds on Lauri Markkanen, and it is not in the direction rival teams were hoping for.