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Utah Jazz vs New Orleans Pelicans: Player Grades

Youth took center stage Thursday night when the Jazz met the Pelicans at the Delta Center, with four of the five Jazz starters aged 22 or younger.  With multiple key players out of the lineup due to injury or season ending surgery, the game also provided second unit and bench players with extended minutes as […]

New Orleans Pelicans vs. Utah Jazz: Recap and Final Score

The Utah Jazz lost vital game in the tank-race against the New Orleans Pelicans, with a final score of 129-118. With this loss, Utah ties New Orleans in the win column, putting the Jazz well within reach of a top-five lottery position. The Jazz and Pelicans are currently on opposite trajectories – Utah is dropping […]

Utah Jazz sign Mo Bamba to 10-day contract

According to Shams Charania (through agents), the Utah Jazz have signed Mo Bamba to a 10-day contract. This likely comes because of the loss to Jusuf Nurkic, who is out for the season. Bamba was on the Jazz roster to start the season and now makes his return. We’ll see if this will turn into […]

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New details on the Adam Silver Utah Jazz tanking feud

It looks like Adam Silver wants to have his cake and eat it, too. Yesterday, I wrote about Tony Jones reporting that the NBA was sending its own doctors to verify the injury to Lauri Markkanen. Today, Tony Jones apologized for getting something wrong. Apparently, they are just going to verify the MRIs, which is […]

Evaluating the NBA’s proposed tanking antidotes

Everybody wants the NBA to fix tanking. Nobody knows how to do it. Tanking. You’ve seen the word thousands of times in your recent social media doom scroll. You’ve heard it repeated countless times on television and podcasts to the point of semantic satiation — the word is losing all meaning. It’s just a jumble […]

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Utah Jazz Injury News: Lauri Markkanen suffers injury in practice

According to Kevin Reynolds, Lauri Markkanen was injured in practice and will receive an MRI. From Reynolds: Utah Jazz star Lauri Markkanen could miss some time after suffering an injury in practice on Wednesday. Markkanen will be evaluated for a right ankle and right hip injury, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. […]

The Utah Jazz and Indiana Pacers are punishing ESPN and Adam Silver

Things move quickly in the NBA news cycle. It’s been a few weeks since the Utah Jazz were chosen to be the scapegoats for Adam Silver’s terrible plan to flatten lottery odds in 2019. Instead of the flattened odds preventing tanking, they made it worse by incentivizing middle-lottery teams to lose more. Utah had to […]

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Utah Jazz vs Houston Rockets Recap: Jazz can’t keep up on the road

The Jazz fell to the Rockets, 105-125, in a defeat that was all but assured ever since the opening quarter. Not that Jazz fans are complaining; with the next two games being against the Pelicans, where losses are far from guaranteed, an easy and relaxed addition to the teams ping pong balls versus Houston is […]

Utah Jazz vs Houston Rockets preview: Sizing it up in Houston

This was the news greeted by fans at 1 AM, as the team is headed to the Lone Star State to wrap up their two-game road trip against the Houston Rockets — wait for it….on National Television! Ever since the Jazz pulled the plug on Operation Jaren, Nurkic hasn’t been able to grace the floor […]

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Breaking: Jusuf Nurkić Out for Season

Per NBA insider Chris Haynes, the Jazz will be without backup center Jusuf Nurkić moving forward due to an urgent medical procedure: I’m not a doctor, but I figure this procedure is urgent because Jusuf Nurkić is playing too well. For the Jazz, who are fighting to keep pace in a hotly contested race for […]

NBA Free Agency Rumors: New intel on Walker Kessler

According to Jake Fischer, the Utah Jazz are “determined to retain … Walker Kessler.” From Fischer, who was talking about the Indiana Pacers and their recent deal to trade for Ivica Zubac: Trading for Zubac likely cements the Pacers’ return to title contention in 2026-27 once Tyrese Haliburton is back from his crushing Achilles’ tear […]

Utah Jazz vs Memphis Grizzlies Player Grades

The Jazz snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and lost 114-123. Depending on who you ask this was either a masterclass in tanking, or an embarrassing implosion. This game also featured many familiar faces for both teams, (Hello Kyle Anderson, and Taylor Hendricks) as well as an emotional homecoming for Jaren Jackson Jr. Ace […]

Utah Jazz vs Memphis Grizzlies: Preview, start time, channel, injury report

The Utah Jazz and Memphis Grizzlies will have a tank-off their first game post all-star break and it will be mostly a competition of young guys in this one. The flattened odds that Adam Silver set up are to blame for this game and situation. The Grizzlies would likely not care about losing games if […]

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The NBA’s motivations are detrimental to the integrity of the game

There’s a plague passing through the National Basketball Association, and it’s not tanking. Sure, the act of deliberately putting your team at a disadvantage in the hopes of improving draft odds is detrimental to the spirit of competition — when one of the teams doesn’t care to win, why should the fans? But the NBA […]

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Utah Jazz QOTD #2: Which injuries to use for the tank?

The latest news in the Tank Wars comes from the Sacramento Kings, the cute little participant in the latest tank discussion. Today, in some moves that may not even change the outcome of games, the Kings announced that Domantas Sabonis will be out the rest of the season for left knee surgery. There’s no doubt […]

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The Great Tank Race, Vol. III: Post All-Star Break Blues

A letter written by the hand of General William Culvahouse Hardy, dated Wednesday, February 18, 2026, C.E. This war is not what it used to be. The times have changed faster than anyone could have predicted, and suddenly, nothing feels familiar. I now hardly remember the taste of defeat. The comfort of pre-emptively waving the […]

It’s time to fire Adam Silver, here’s how

With the unfair and unprecedented fines against the Utah Jazz and Indiana Pacers last week, there has been a tipping point of frustration for fans and media over how poorly things have gone for the NBA under the leadership of Adam Silver. Adam Silver has done one thing right in his time as Commissioner: he […]

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Fan poll shows how far Jazz fans think the Jazz will go next season

In our latest NBA Reacts poll, I wanted to see how good Jazz fans think the Jazz will be next season. With the addition of Jaren Jackson Jr. last week, the Utah Jazz became the center of NBA attention, but not for the right reasons. Adam Silver, in typical form, fined the Jazz for resting […]