2022-23 regular season. The Tank begins...

According to rival executives, [URL="https://*********.com/lists/nba-rumors-kyle-kuzma-john-collins-jae-crowder-yuta-watanabe-dwight-howard/"]the Jazz view Vanderbilt as worthy of a first-round pick in value given his production,[/URL] contract (signed for $4.7 million next season), and age (23). At the end of November, Beasley told ********* he’d like to remain in Utah and have the Jazz exercise his $16.5 million team option.
– via [URL="https://*********.com/lists/nba-rumors-kyle-kuzma-john-collins-jae-crowder-yuta-watanabe-dwight-howard/"]Michael Scotto @ *********[/URL]





Suns guard Landry Shamet was also discussed in the trade talks, league sources told *********. [URL="https://*********.com/lists/nba-rumors-kyle-kuzma-john-collins-jae-crowder-yuta-watanabe-dwight-howard/"]In at least one framework of the three-teamtrade talks, Shamet would’ve gone to Atlanta with Crowder,[/URL] sources said.
– via [URL="https://*********.com/lists/nba-rumors-kyle-kuzma-john-collins-jae-crowder-yuta-watanabe-dwight-howard/"]Michael Scotto @ *********[/URL]







How does that role contrast to the end of your time in Chicago? [URL="https://www.nba.com/news/qa-lauri-markannen-jazz-2022"]Lauri Markkanen: Looking back, I could’ve done things better in previous places I played for.[/URL] But I wasn’t the player I am today when I was there. I just kept working and kept getting better. You have to progress, and you can’t rush into it. I’ve gotten better as a player with how I approach the game.
– via [URL="https://www.nba.com/news/qa-lauri-markannen-jazz-2022"]Mark Medina @ NBA.com[/URL]

[URL]http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=2k9aotag[/URL]

get it done Danny!

Jason Anderson: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]The Sacramento Kings are listing Domantas Sabonis (thumb) as questionable again for tonight’s game vs. the Denver Nuggets[/URL]. Jamal Murray (knee), Aaron Gordon (shoulder) and Bruce Brown (ankle) are questionable for Denver. Jeff Green (finger) remains out.
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/JandersonSacBee"]Twitter JandersonSacBee[/URL]

[URL="https://*********.com/lists/international-transactions-log-where-are-former-nba-players-going/"]Former Nuggets player Erick Green signed with Montenegrin team KK Buducnost[/URL] for the remainder of the 2022-23 season.
– via [URL="https://*********.com/lists/international-transactions-log-where-are-former-nba-players-going/"]Alberto De Roa @ *********[/URL]

Golden State: [URL="https://*********.com/lists/nba-injuries-tracker/"]Klay Thompson (right achilles tendon injury management) has been downgraded to out for Thursday’s game against Utah. Draymond Green (right foot soreness) and Donte DiVincenzo (right knee soreness) are questionable[/URL].
– via [URL="https://*********.com/lists/nba-injuries-tracker/"]Alberto De Roa @ *********[/URL]

Former 76ers player [URL="https://*********.com/lists/international-transactions-log-where-are-former-nba-players-going/"]Saben Lee re-joined G League team Raptors 905 for the remainder of the 2022-23 season[/URL].
– via [URL="https://*********.com/lists/international-transactions-log-where-are-former-nba-players-going/"]Alberto De Roa @ *********[/URL]

[url]https://kslsports.com/497006/jazz-discussed-collins-trade-with-suns-hawks/[/url]

[QUOTE]According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the trade talks surrounded Malik Beasley and Jarred Vanderbilt from the Jazz, Jae Crowder from the Suns, and John Collins from the Hawks.

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[URL]http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=2o2qupbx[/URL]

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/2022/12/28/23526876/christmas-wishes-for-the-utah-jazz-in-2023[/url]

[QUOTE]The Jazz have a mixed bag. On the one hand, Lauri is crazy efficient on high volume. But most of those baskets are coming assisted. Clarkson is generating his own offense quite a bit but below league average efficiency. Nickeil & Collin are in the right area but on far too little volume.

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Get rid of the bum. More Sexton, Nickeil and Beasley

Alan Horton: [URL="http://twitter.com/WolvesRadio/status/1608286224707362816"]“We’d like to see Rudy be a little more impactful challenging shots, he’s been a little bit timid there sometimes.”[/URL] -Chris Finch on the Tip-Off Show tonight. Rudy has responded w/ 3 1st half blocks & anchoring a defense holding NOP to 100 ORTG (87th %) & 44% FG% in the paint.

– via [URL="http://twitter.com/WolvesRadio/status/1608286224707362816"]Twitter[/URL]





This summer, the Utah Jazz traded him to Minnesota, which bet its future on Gobert’s ability to help the franchise win its first championship. The Timberwolves gave the Jazz four draft picks, four players and the right to swap picks in 2026. [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/sports/basketball/rudy-gobert-minnesota-timberwolves.html"]“The average fan might not understand what I bring to the table,” Gobert said, “but the G.M.s in the league do.”[/URL]
– via [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/sports/basketball/rudy-gobert-minnesota-timberwolves.html"]Tania Ganguli @ New York Times[/URL]







What has it been like adjusting to playing with another center like Karl-Anthony Towns? [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/sports/basketball/rudy-gobert-minnesota-timberwolves.html"]I don’t really like to call him a center because I don’t think he’s a center. I think it’s more of a wing in a center’s body. But yeah, it’s been a fun process so far.[/URL] Obviously, we knew there was going to be some ups and downs, and there is some ups and downs. But KAT has been a great teammate. He’s been a great human. People like to focus on the fact that it’s two big men that play together, but there is always a process of adjustment when a player like me joins another team. Building chemistry takes time.
– via [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/sports/basketball/rudy-gobert-minnesota-timberwolves.html"]Tania Ganguli @ New York Times[/URL]






[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/sports/basketball/rudy-gobert-minnesota-timberwolves.html"]A lot of people celebrate my failures.[/URL] It’s kind of like a mark of respect for me just to have people that just wait until I do something wrong or until my teams start losing. Then they become really, really loud. And when my teams do well it’s quiet again. You know, I kind of embrace that it’s part of the external noise that comes with all the success that we’ve had in Utah and over the last few years in my career.
– via [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/sports/basketball/rudy-gobert-minnesota-timberwolves.html"]Tania Ganguli @ New York Times[/URL]






When did you first feel that people were celebrating your failures? Once I started to have success, when I started winning defensive player of the year, All-N.B.A., being an All-Star. When my team, when we started winning like 50 games and stuff. [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/sports/basketball/rudy-gobert-minnesota-timberwolves.html"]The people on social media are always the loudest. When I go outside, it’s usually all the interactions are positive[/URL].
– via [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/sports/basketball/rudy-gobert-minnesota-timberwolves.html"]Tania Ganguli @ New York Times[/URL]







There was a lot of conversation about your relationship with Donovan Mitchell, at that time and afterward. How do you view how that relationship was? I think it was a tough situation for me, just like it was a tough situation for him. After that, we came back to have a lot of success as a team. As of today, Donovan is someone that I want to see him happy. I want to see him succeed. [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/sports/basketball/rudy-gobert-minnesota-timberwolves.html"]I want him and his family to be great. Things happen, and sometimes people can do things to you that can hurt you.[/URL] A lot of times it’s out of fear, you know. So you just have to grow through that and see past that. You mentioned people will do things that hurt you. Do you mean Mitchell? I mean generally. That’s life.
– via [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/sports/basketball/rudy-gobert-minnesota-timberwolves.html"]Tania Ganguli @ New York Times[/URL]

[url]https://kslsports.com/497016/markkanen-jazz-struggle-late-in-loss-to-warriors/[/url]

[QUOTE]Clarkson is a more willing shot-creator off the dribble than Markkanen, which is largely the reason he’s been the team’s top option in the fourth quarter.

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mainly because he's a gunner

[url]https://www.deseret.com/2022/12/29/23500244/utah-jazz-story-top-storylines-in-2022[/url]

Gobert trade for sure at the top

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/2022/12/28/23530540/utah-jazz-collapse-in-the-fourth-lose-to-the-golden-state-warriors-steph-curry[/url]

[QUOTE]In the final minute of the game the Jazz had their chance to take the lead with two consecutive trips to the foul line, but Olynyk and Clarkson shot 1/4 on those attempts and that was all she wrote. There is no doubt that the Jazz will wish they could take a mulligan on this fourth quarter, this was a winnable game that slipped away due to poor execution and ice-cold shooting.

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trade the bum!

Jazz are all guards and bigs Need some wings

Jason Anderson: The [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Sacramento Kings are listing forward Trey Lyles as questionable for Friday’s game against the Utah Jazz due to a right calf contusion[/URL]. Domantas Sabonis (thumb) is not listed on the injury report after returning in last night’s win over the Nuggets.
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/JandersonSacBee"]Twitter JandersonSacBee[/URL]

[QUOTE] Last week, Stockton joined Michele Tafoya’s podcast Sideline Sanity to preach his anti-vax narratives. During the interview, Tafoya referenced Stockton’s claim that more than 100 pro athletes died from the COVID vaccine and asked the Basketball Hall-of-Famer where that information came from. “I got it from a lot of places otherwise I would have never had the confidence to share it,” Stockton said without offering specific sources. “That’s the beauty of it. [URL="https://thecomeback.com/covid-19/john-stockton-thinks-1000-pro-athletes-died-covid-vaccine.html"]I have quite a system that I go through before I open my mouth, especially with statistics and I knew at the time that 150 was dramatically low.”[/URL]

– via [URL="https://thecomeback.com/covid-19/john-stockton-thinks-1000-pro-athletes-died-covid-vaccine.html"]Brandon Contes @ The Comeback[/URL]





Now nearly one year later, Stockton told Tafoya he’s confident he lowballed the number when he estimated 150 pro athletes died from the vaccine. “I thought it was in the area of 300. When I went and spoke at the Spokesman-Review, we had a nice interview, and they asked, and then of course whatever FactChecker.org or dot com came out and said ‘well that’s baloney.’ I went back and looked again, I have names, pictures, faces, where they played,” Stockton asserted on Tafoya’s podcast. “I had over 300 at the time, so I felt pretty secure with my little 150. People had to come out and argue that, I had the proof in my hands, the piece of paper with the names. [URL="https://thecomeback.com/covid-19/john-stockton-thinks-1000-pro-athletes-died-covid-vaccine.html"]And it’s way more than that now. I think it’s in the thousands now. Don’t quote me on that one, I’m not saying 1,000, but it might be. It’s a big number.”[/URL]

– via [URL="https://thecomeback.com/covid-19/john-stockton-thinks-1000-pro-athletes-died-covid-vaccine.html"]Brandon Contes @ The Comeback[/URL]


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how the mighty have fallen :cry:

James Ham: OFFICIAL: Head coach [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Mike Brown has cleared health & safety protocols and will coach tonight’s game versus the Utah Jazz[/URL].
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/James_HamNBA"]Twitter James_HamNBA[/URL]