It looks like the Utah Jazz will have their typical starting five healthy and ready to go for their road matchup against the defending champion OKC Thunder.
The Utah Jazz's experiment to bring in 18-year league veteran Kevin Love thus far into the 2025-26 campaign has been a pretty solid success in the first two-plus months of the season.
Could the Utah Jazz still find a trade for their franchise star, Lauri Markkanen, leading up to the NBA trade deadline that now sits just under a month away?
Do you want to see a hilarious statistic? 6-6. In the past 12 games, this is the win-loss record of the Oklahoma City Thunder, the number one seed in the Western Conference and owners of the best record in the entire National Basketball Association.
It looks like even with Walker Kessler being sidelined for the remainder of the regular season with a shoulder injury, the buzz surrounding the Utah Jazz center has yet to stop as he'll be eyeing restricted free agency later this summer, and appears to have at least one tea outside of his current home interested in his services.
Part of what makes the NBA, or any pro sports league, so compelling to watch is the narratives, especially those centered on rivalries. Throughout the decades, the NBA has fostered a number of rivalries, some long-lasting and others short but sweet.
Since arriving with the Utah Jazz in the NBA offseason via three-team trade from the Miami Heat, Kevin Love has been vocal about his praise for the organization, his gratitude for the role that he has on the roster, and clearly is enjoying his time in Salt Lake City through the first few months of the year.
Utah Jazz star forward Lauri Markkanen ended up making some notable noise in the first NBA All-Star fan voting returns, placing in the top 15 vote-getters of Western Conference candidates, and made for some additional optimism about what his All-Star fate may hold for later this season.
The Utah Jazz fell victim to their fourth loss in a row against the Portland Trail Blazers in blowout fashion, 117-137, leaving the Jazz winless to start the new year and now reside in the bottom three of the Western Conference at 12-23.
Brice Sensabaugh was viewed as something of a tweener ahead of the 2023 draft. He played power forward in his lone college season at Ohio State, but at 6’6″, he has the height of a wing, his primary position since he was selected 28th overall by the Jazz a few years ago.
Christmas and the NBA have been synonymous since the league’s inception. The very first Christmas Day game was played in 1947 at Madison Square Garden between the New York Knicks and Providence Steam Rollers.
The Boston Celtics dropped a tough 114-108 decision to the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday, but you can not blame Jaylen Brown for that result. Brown finished with 37 points and recorded his ninth consecutive 30-point game.
Utah Jazz rookie Ace Bailey is day-to-day after exiting Friday night's win against Detroit with a left hip strain. The 19-year-old forward was scoreless in 11 minutes before leaving in the first half of the 131-129 victory.
The Jazz are living in the gray area that now defines the NBA’s middle class. At 10-17 and buried in the Western Conference standings, Utah is balancing two priorities at once.