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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Podcast: What Now? Answering Your Questions About the Post-Hayward Jazz

  08-07-2017 22:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... associate editor Dan Clayton tackles reader questions about the state of the Jazz, the near-term options and likelihood of eventually replacing Hayward with a ...
  
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• Kragthorpe: Gordon Hayward’s timing really leaves Utah Jazz in a lurch in overloaded West

  08-07-2017 21:57
  
  The Jazz’s defeat came in the 92nd hour of free agency, the NBA’s equivalent of stoppage time.
  Gordon Hayward’s move to Boston was tough enough for the Jazz to absorb. His strategy of not deciding until late in the fourth day of the vigil made losing him hurt even more.
  The Jazz, competing in a Western Conference that’s only getting tougher, were left with few alternatives. This stuff happens quickly. Deals are done within the first few hours of July 1 every summer. And h
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Las Vegas Summer League Game Preview: Utah Jazz vs Portland Trailblazers

  08-07-2017 21:31 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... kopje (Macedonia) R F 6'9" 249 4/18/97 Purdue R (Thanks, ) Who To Watch Utah Jazz: Almost without exception, most fans will continue to rant and rave about ro ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - [Audio] The SLC Punks Podcast: The Aftermath of Gordon Hayward and What Is Next for the Utah Jazz

  08-07-2017 21:14 via sportspyder.com
  
  ...lies ahead for the ? Is Rudy Gobert the shining example of loyalty for Utah Jazz fans? Who’s been showing out at the Utah Summer League? Are the Boston Celti ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Kragthorpe: Gordon Hayward’s timing really leaves Utah Jazz in a lurch in overloaded West

  08-07-2017 20:46 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... ." And now comes a bigger problem: keeping up with the rest of the West. The Jazz made a significant climb to tie for the fourth-best record in the conference ...
  
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• [NBA] - Game Preview—Jazz vs. Trail Blazers

  08-07-2017 20:38 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... Community Community News Junior Jazz Jazz Fit Donation Request Form Player Ticket Donations Doing Good Pass it Along S ...
  
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• Jazz // Trail Blazers Game Preview: on.nba.com/2u4bZnO 📝🏀 #VegasJazz https://t.co/cjfqmxwxGd

  08-07-2017 20:35 via twitter.com
  
  Jazz // Trail Blazers Game Preview: on.nba.com/2u4bZnO 📝🏀#VegasJazz https://t.co/cjfqmxwxGd
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Shelvin Mack Finalizing a Two-Year, $12 Million Dollar Contract With Orlando

  08-07-2017 20:26 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... -15 season, when we needed one the most. was injured, was a poor fit for the Jazz’ play style, and simply hadn’t completely developed yet. Shelvin was a step...
  
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• Jazz // Trail Blazers - TODAY Game 1⃣ of Las Vegas Summer League 👊 Catch the game on ESPNU & CSNNWHD @ 4 PM MT… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  08-07-2017 18:22 via twitter.com
  Jazz // Trail Blazers - TODAY Game 1⃣ of Las Vegas Summer League 👊Catch the game on ESPNU & CSNNWHD @ 4 PM MT… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Move over #ChinaKlay, make room for #RickyEspaña

  08-07-2017 17:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... hinaKlay, make room for #RickyEspaña - SLC Dunk clock menu more-arrow a Utah Jazz community ✕ Move over #ChinaKlay, make room for #RickyEspaña Ricky Rubio is...
  
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• [Jazz Fanatical] - Bits on Gordon Hayward Departure from Dennis Lindsey, Mark Bartelstein and Trevor Booker Interviews

  08-07-2017 15:14 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... w, at a time. Eight. Bartelstein, asked why he was the one that informed the Jazz of Hayward’s decision and why Hayward couldn’t pick up the phone himself: We ...
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - Kia Rookie Ladder: Boston Celtics' Jayson Tatum off to impressive start

  08-07-2017 13:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... y Fultz scores 17 in his Summer League debut. 5.      Donovan Mitchell, Utah Jazz What would have been a nice start for a lottery pick under ordinary circumst ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - After Gordon Hayward: Heroes and Villains

  08-07-2017 07:49 via sportspyder.com
  
  ...Jazz fan could ask for. He’s dynamic on twitter. He’s vocal. Passionate. Plays wi ...
  
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• [USA Today] - Jazz thank Gordon Hayward with classy full-page ad

  08-07-2017 06:16 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... d 11:55 p.m. ET July 7, 2017 A few days after that he'll be leaving the Utah Jazz to go play for the Boston Celtics, the Jazz purchased a full-page ad to than ...
  
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• [USA Today: For The Win] - Utah Jazz wish Gordon Hayward 'happiness and success' with classy full-page newspaper ad

  08-07-2017 05:54 via sportspyder.com
  
  ...(@ESPNForsberg) July 7, 2017 Hayward’s decision to leave has been tough for Jazz fans, but it’s nice to see the franchise make a gesture like this rather tha ...
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Report: Shelvin Mack reaches two-year, $12 million deal to play for Orlando

  08-07-2017 05:39 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... ers were on the ropes for much of the second half Wednesday against the Utah Jazz. During the third quarter, they wilted under a barrage of three-pointers fro ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - [AUDIO] Are Small Market NBA Teams at a disadvantage when it comes to retaining top talent?

  08-07-2017 04:33 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... en it comes to retaining top talent? - SLC Dunk clock menu more-arrow a Utah Jazz community ✕ [AUDIO] Are Small Market NBA Teams at a disadvantage when it com ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Summer League Standouts

  08-07-2017 04:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... raged 3.3 steals per game in summer league. That’s not a typo. When the Utah Jazz were struggling against the in Game 3 of Summer League, Donovan asked to gua ...
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz notes: Shelvin Mack signs with Orlando, Crowder sign-and-trade unlikely

  08-07-2017 03:57 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... ns that the Celtics won't be trading Jae Crowder or any other players to the Jazz for the rights to sign Gordon Hayward. What may still happen is a sign-and-t ...
  
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• Utah Jazz notes: Coaches satisfied with Dante Exum’s strong Summer League performance in Utah

  08-07-2017 03:42
  
  Dante Exum’s watch has ended.
  After finishing as the second-leading scorer (20 ppg) and leading assist man (6.3 apg) among all players in the Utah Summer League, he’s saving the rest of his basketball for the regular season. That was always the plan for the Utah Jazz, and Exum hit some benchmarks that the coaching staff wanted him to hit.
  “He did a lot of good things,” Jazz assistant Alex Jensen said after Utah’s 68-65 win over the Boston Celtics on Thursday night.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Trevor Booker not at all surprised Hayward left the Jazz

  08-07-2017 03:16 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... nd player with nothing in return. The Jazz have tried to work out a sign-and-trade deal with Boston — small forward Jae ...
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - Report: Shelvin Mack headed to Orlando Magic

  08-07-2017 03:04 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... ly 7, 2017 Mack, 26, averaged 7.8 points and 2.8 assists last season for the Jazz.   ...
  
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• Trevor Booker not at all surprised Hayward left the Jazz

  08-07-2017 02:55
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Although Gordon Hayward’s decision to leave Utah caught the Jazz and many fans off guard, it didn’t shock one of his former teammates at all.Trevor Booker, a fan favorite during his two seasons in Utah from 2014-16 and now with Brooklyn, heard whispers of Hayward wanting to play elsewhere.“I wouldn’t say I’m surprised that he left,” Booker said in a HoopsHype.com podcast. “When I was there, I heard rumors. I don’t know how tr
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Jazz notes: Coaches satisfied with Dante Exum’s strong Summer League performance in Utah

  08-07-2017 02:49 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... y, Exum has been able to get in a full load of offseason skill work with the Jazz for the first time in his career. Jensen's big critique of Exum was his cond ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Report: Shelvin Mack to sign a 2-year, $12 million deal with Orlando Magic

  08-07-2017 02:37 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... The sixth-year pro out of Butler has spent the last year and a half with the Jazz after arriving in a 2016 trade from the Atlanta Hawks. He just finished a co ...
  
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• [ESPN] - Sources: Mack finalizing 2-year deal with Magic

  08-07-2017 02:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... l manager John Hammond.  Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Mack, 27, leaves the Utah Jazz to join the Magic, where he'll be part of the team's rotation of guards. Mac ...
  
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• Report: Shelvin Mack to sign a 2-year, $12 million deal with Orlando Magic

  08-07-2017 02:20
  
  Shelvin Mack will soon be getting a significant pay raise.ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Friday evening that the Utah Jazz free-agent point guard will be signing a 2-year, $12 million contract with the Orlando Magic.https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/883473101735854080The sixth-year pro out of Butler has spent the last year and a half with the Jazz after arriving in a 2016 trade from the Atlanta Hawks. He just finished a contract that paid him $2.43 million last season.During his stint in
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - After going 3-0 in SLC, Utah Jazz head for NBA Summer League in Las Vegas

  08-07-2017 01:30 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... hair in Las Vegas. Point guard Dante Exum, who's played two seasons with the Jazz, sandwiched around a lost season he had to sit out after suffering a torn AC ...
  
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• After going 3-0 in SLC, Utah Jazz head for NBA Summer League in Las Vegas

  08-07-2017 01:28
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Hey, who needs Gordon Hayward, anyway?After all, the Summer League version of the Utah Jazz hasn't lost yet since learning that Hayward was leaving town via free agency to play for the Boston Celtics.Of course, the emphasis in that statement is on "Summer League" — a place where NBA rookies and many other young, still unproven professional players gather each year to try and strut their stuff in hopes of showing teams that, yes, they are indeed ready to perform in th
  
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• Utah Jazz: Draft pick Tony Bradley, a work in progress, has a history of self-improvement

  08-07-2017 00:52
  
  Tony Bradley Sr. took his son to the 2009 McDonald’s All-American game in Coral Gables, Fla., to watch Kenny Boynton, a Florida local. But Bradley soon saw his son transfixed by Derrick Favors, Demarcus Cousins and a handful of other big men stealing the show.
  Bradley bought his son, then a middle-schooler, a T-shirt and program. Seeing how much the boy wanted to join the ranks of All-Americans one day, the father also shelled out thousands of dollars to build a concrete basketball court b
  
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• Monson: Gordon Hayward’s departure disrespected Quin Snyder, more than anyone

  08-07-2017 00:52
  
  Of all the people in and around the Jazz organization who are disappointed/disrespected by Gordon Hayward’s move away from the Jazz and to the Celtics, the one at the top of the list is Quin Snyder.
  For good reasons, he won’t come out and make any such pronouncement — in fact, publicly, Snyder has been nothing but gracious — but those close to to the Jazz coach describe him as baffled and hurt by Hayward’s decision.
  Snyder is more responsible for Hayward’s dev
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Gordon Hayward’s departure disrespected Quin Snyder, more than anyone

  08-07-2017 00:05 via sportspyder.com
  
  ... en strong. But during the past three years in Utah, after Snyder came to the Jazz, meeting immediately with Hayward and proceeding to make him a priority, the ...
  
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