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The Utah Jazz are one of the latest teams to employ tanking as a strategy.
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Houston won for the 13th time in 15 games, stretched its lead over the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets for the No. 2 seed in the West to three games and set a positive tone for a challenging cl...
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It's officially the end of Cody Williams ' rookie season with the Utah Jazz. According to a team release, Williams will be out for the rest of the 2024-25 season due to mononucleosis, effectively keeping him out of the mix for Utah's final five games of the year.
Utah Jazz rookie Isaiah Collier continues to dominate the team's history books to close out his first year in the league. Following his stellar performance vs. the Houston Rockets to collect 22 points and 10 assists, Collier is now the Jazz's franchise leader for rookies with the most 20-point, ten rebound performances with three.
For this scribes money, Collier has been the best of the bunch and continues to show positive indicators for the lofty ceiling that his game has. If you look beyond the losses and
Pacers wings Bennedict Mathurin (left calf) and Aaron Nesmith (right ankle) are both listed as questionable for Friday's game against Utah.
The Utah Jazz are having an all-time bad season, and even though they're not winning games they seem to be positioning themselves quite well for an elite talent in this year's NBA Draft. While it's no guarantee Utah will earn the number one pick, perhaps Duke star Cooper Flagg could be in the team's future very soon.
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It might not be a must-see-TV type of game, but the Indiana Pacers consider Friday's contest against the Utah Jazz in Indianapolis as another must-win matchup.
The Salt Lake City Stars, the official NBA G League affiliate of the Utah Jazz, announced today that Jazz two-way guard Elijah Harkless has been named the 2024-25 Kia NBA G League Most Improved Player by the NBA G League.
The other tanking teams in the league are going to have to try harder if they want to catch the Jazz in the loss column.
Guard Elijah Harkless, who is on a two-way contract with the Jazz, has been named the NBA G League’s Most Improved Player for the 2024/25 season, the NBA announced today ( via Twitter ).