Utah Jazz

Come one, come all, you’re just in time to take part in the first NBA power rankings of the holiday season! This is big stuff, I know, so we’ll get right to it. A lot is happening now that the 2015-16 season is hitting its stride. The Warriors are still the Warriors; the Pacers are [...]

Rudy Gobert takes no prisoners on Twitter. Late in the fourth quarter of the Utah Jazz’s 93-89 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night, DeMar DeRozan drove his way past Gordon Hayward. That’s typically no big deal. The Jazz have a tendency to funnel ball-handlers into the paint, blatantly daring them to score on [...]

It seems that someone forgot to tell the Houston Rockets that the NBA’s 2015-16 regular season is underway. The early part of 2015-16 has no doubt been weird. Some of the usual juggernauts are juggernauting, but this year’s landscape is rife with early-season underachievers, the fast-plummeting Rockets being among them. Can Houston regain its 2014-15 [...]

Rudy Gobert’s sprained ankle is of little concern to Rudy Gobert. The third-year shot-swallower left with a sprained ankle during the fourth quarter of the Utah Jazz’s 118-114 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday and did not return. The idea that he could miss time, any time at all, is absolutely terrifying, because the [...]

NBA Power Rankings are back! After a short delay, the return of The Hoop Doctors’ weekly look at where the league stands is once again ready for liftoff. There are no rules here, so check your need for order at the door. These rankings, like always, are going to change from week to week. That’s [...]

Tom Thibodeau is not joining the Utah Jazz’s coaching staff. Repeat: Tom Thibodeau is not joining the Utah Jazz’s coaching staff. He is, however, helping them out. From Jody Genessy of the Deseret News: Turns out, Thibodeau is in town at the request of the Jazz. Thibodeau isn’t here to be added to the Jazz’s [...]

Pat yourself on the back. Do the self-five. Pound your chest. Hell, play some pocket billiards if you’re into that sort of thing. You deserve it. Because the 2014-15 NBA regular season is over. And you made it. Now it’s off to the playoffs, which begin Saturday. And thank heavens for the brief respite in [...]

Sometimes the smallest man on the floor has the biggest heart, they also sometimes need to have the highest leaping skills as well, which is what Bryce Cotton of the Jazz showcased on their Monday night victory against the Mavericks. Around the beginning of the second period, the 6-foot-1 rookie guard threw down one of [...]

Oh, look, it’s the Spurs. The time-biding, age-shirking, logic-looting, championship-chasing, demonstratively dynastic Spurs. Remember when we were worried about them? Yeah, me neither. Yours truly was never worried about them. Yes, I’m patting my self on the back. A few bold blockheads thought they were done. Believed they were finally too old. Could see injuries [...]

It’s almost time for us to say goodbye to another year of NBA Power Rankings. The NBA’s regular season is winding down, which means we’re nearing a point of farewell. Never fear, though, because that point isn’t here just yet. We still have the playoff race and, equally important, the MVP chase—or, as it’s now become, [...]