Basketball - Utah Jazz news

• Messi scores and Argentina gets injury time reprieve to advance against Nigeria

  26-06-2018 23:56
  St. Petersburg, Russia • Lionel Messi and Argentina finally got things going at the World Cup.Messi scored an exquisite 14th-minute goal to give the two-time champions the lead in a must-win game against Nigeria on Tuesday, but it wasn’t until Marcos Rojo’s 86th-minute strike that Argentina was assured of a place in the round of 16 with a 2-1 victory.Victor Moses scored from the penalty spot in the 51st minute for Nigeria, putting Argentina in danger of being eliminated without
  
  Read more

• Security guard charged with murder. And dead man’s mother sues, saying her son experienced ‘fear and terror’ in his final moments.

  26-06-2018 23:48
  It’s been about a week since Connie Elison’s 54-year-old son was shot and killed by a security guard in Salt Lake City — and the mother says she’s still in shock.She can’t believe that someone would fire a gun toward her son Thomas Stanfield after an early-morning confrontation last Wednesday.“Unless you’re a mother, you don’t know how much your children mean to you, even as old as he was,” Elison said. “I think it was totally wrong.&rd
  
  Read more

• [Deseret Morning News] - NBA awards recap: Pink or red suit? Rookie of the year?

  26-06-2018 23:43 via sportspyder.com
  ...ago that I would be here I probably wouldn't believe it" Rudy Gobert thanks Jazz fans and the organization in his acceptance speech for #nba Defensive Player ...
  
  Read more

• NBA awards recap: Pink or red suit? Rookie of the year?

  26-06-2018 23:41
  Before we delve into some of the NBA awards, there's an important color controversy to discuss.Do you see red or pink????????????? pic.twitter.com/jl5liUfWLC— Jazz Nation (@JazzNation2018) June 26, 2018
  This publication sees a pretty-in-pink winner.Rudy Gobert wins Defensive Player of the Year and clearly the best suit. pic.twitter.com/u6N3xd48xj— SB Nation NBA (@SBNationNBA) June 26, 2018
  If Jazz fans were worried if winning a major award would go to Rudy Gobert's head and have him
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• ‘Sorrowful citizen’ who stole a stop sign more than 70 years ago sends Utah city $50 to buy a new one

  26-06-2018 22:32
  Houston • An 89-year-old person has anonymously mailed $50 from Texas to a community near Salt Lake City to express remorse for stealing a stop sign years ago as a “thoughtless teenager.”City officials in Midvale tweeted details of the June 11 letter.We received the sweetest anonymous letter from a 90-year-old Texas gentleman, and just had to share with y'all. #texas #BlessHisHeart pic.twitter.com/z2A5k78gBz— Midvale City, Utah (@MidvaleCity) June 20, 2018The letter, with
  
  Read more

• Congressional intern suspended after yelling obscenity at President Trump at the Capitol

  26-06-2018 22:25
  Washington • A congressional intern who yelled an obscenity at President Donald Trump at the Capitol last week has been suspended.The incident took place on June 19, as Trump was walking to the office of House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., to discuss immigration, according to a video taken by NBC News reporter Frank Thorp V.In the video, as Trump’s entourage walks through a corridor, a woman can be heard shouting “Mr. President!” — followed by a profane insult.The wo
  
  Read more

• Dana Milbank: Trump sends us down a rabbit hole of white supremacy

  26-06-2018 21:30
  Washington • I tuned in to President Trump’s event on immigration. Before I knew it, I had tumbled down a rabbit hole of white supremacy.The president, in need of a change of subject from the treatment of migrant children at the border, brought in “angel” moms and dads on Friday who are “permanently separated from their loved ones” killed by illegal immigrants.The purpose was to stoke fears that an illegal-immigrant crime wave is swamping the nation. Voluminous
  
  Read more

• What’s driving record sales in downtown Salt Lake City? Restaurants, bars and one big theater.

  26-06-2018 21:09
  Downtown Salt Lake City appears to be evolving into more of a nightlife and entertainment hub, judging from key shifts in sales revenues for 2017.At the same time, even as new apartment and office projects come online, there is an unmet demand for office space and housing, officials said Tuesday. And that has started to hamper efforts to recruit new employers to Utah’s urban core — though downtown continues to break economic records.The city center’s two main ZIP codes, 84101 a
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• St. George police identify a 23-year-old who was stabbed and killed during an argument with a friend

  26-06-2018 20:59
  Police released the name of a 23-year-old who died last week after he was stabbed several times, allegedly by a friend.Luwing Leonardo Lopez was killed June 22. According to Fox 13, police said Lopez was visiting somewhere with his friend Victor Hernandez when the two got in an argument.“During the course of the visit, the conversation became heated and Victor stabbed Luwing multiple times, resulting in his death,” police told Fox 13.
  Police arrested Hernandez after investigating a t
  
  Read more

• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Extend Qualifying Offers To Exum, Neto, Niang

  26-06-2018 20:49 via sportspyder.com
  ... 26th 2018 at 1:41pm CST by Luke Adams The Jazz have tendered qualifying offers to three players eligible for restricted fre ...
  
  Read more

• Mother of man killed by a security guard sues, saying her son experienced ‘fear and terror’ in his final moments

  26-06-2018 20:40
  Less than a week after he was shot and killed by a security guard in Salt Lake City, Thomas Stanfield’s mother filed a lawsuit in state court alleging the security company did not properly train its employees on when to use lethal force.Salt Lake City police say Timothy Lutes, an employee of Citadel Security USA, fatally shot 54-year-old Stanfield last Wednesday. The 26-year-old security guard initially claimed he fired his weapon in self-defense after the two men scuffled, but police say
  
  Read more

• Monson: With the NBA awards handed out, the Jazz look forward to grabbing a more significant reward

  26-06-2018 20:35
  “Nobody thought they’d be any good this year.”<br>— Charles Barkley, on the JazzWarning: I’m going to preach to the choir here. And irritate those in other choirs in other places. So be it.Another warning: When you pump up people for postseason awards, it always sounds as though you’re putting down somebody else. Maybe you are, but it’s not so much intended that way.And one last reminder: None of this individual stuff is overly important in a team
  
  Read more

• Some 17-year-old Utahns can vote in this primary election

  26-06-2018 20:33
  Utah 17-year-olds are heading to the polls for the first time Tuesday under a new state law allowing them to vote in primary races if they’ll be 18 by November.KUER radio reports the law was passed by state lawmakers earlier this year.Pleasant View 17-year-old Zachary Thomas jumped at the chance to cast his ballot by mail.He says high schools students have increased political awareness in the wake of the February mass shooting at a school in Florida after students around the country began
  
  Read more

• Disgruntled veteran lights himself on fire to protest VA at Georgia Capitol

  26-06-2018 20:31
  A veteran set himself on fire Tuesday with gasoline and fireworks outside the Georgia state Capitol in an act of protest, officials said.The 58-year old from Mabelton, Ga., had been “disgruntled” with the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to Commissioner Mark McDonough of the Georgia Department of Public Safety.A Georgia State Patrol trooper quickly put out the fire with an extinguisher, and the man was transported to a hospital, McDonough said.About 85 percent to 90 percent
  
  Read more

• Catherine Rampell: Factory workers aren’t getting what Trump promised

  26-06-2018 20:18
  Factory workers and farmers are slowly learning that President Trump’s fanatical protectionism — plus Congress’ economic absenteeism — has left them painfully unprotected.That’s not what Trump promised them, of course.A little more than a year ago, Trump invited executives and union representatives from Harley-Davidson to the White House. There he vowed that the motorcycle manufacturer would flourish under his economic stewardship.“Thank you, Harley-Davidson,
  
  Read more

• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 2018 NBA Draft: Grades for the Utah Jazz

  26-06-2018 20:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... ty clean backcourt fit, and he should be able to settle into the back of the Jazz rotation immediately. It’s a very defensible move and fits a need. Grade: B...
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: No ROY for Donovan Mitchell, but he has peers’ respect

  26-06-2018 20:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... tatus as one of the league’s best young players — More from The J-Notes Utah Jazz: ‘Focus is to sign Derrick Favors’ in free agency Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert bri ...
  
  Read more

• Utah Jazz: No ROY for Donovan Mitchell, but he has peers’ respect

  26-06-2018 19:57
  The year-long battle for Rookie of the Year honors is over and Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell came up empty-handed. However, he’s won something far more important. To the surprise of no one, Philadelphia 76ers point-man Ben Simmons was officially named the 2018 NBA Rookie of the Year at the league’s annual awards show on […]
  Utah Jazz: No ROY for Donovan Mitchell, but he has peers’ respect - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and Mor
  
  Read more

• Utah’s Maddy Stover, Martin Bergström named Pac-12’s Tom Hansen medal winners

  26-06-2018 19:31
  The Pac-12 announced Tuesday that Utah gymnast Maddy Stover and skier Martin Bergström have been named recipients of the 2017-18 Tom Hansen Conference Medal.The conference medals are awarded annually to each Pac-12 institution’s outstanding senior male and female student-athlete based on a combination of academics, athletics and leadership.Stover was a 2015 second-team All-American and first-team All-Pac-12 performer on the balance beam. She started for four NCAA qualifying teams, inc
  
  Read more

• Man who wore clown makeup found guilty in fatal stabbing

  26-06-2018 19:30
  Denver • A man who was wearing claw-like gloves and clown-style makeup has been found guilty of stabbing a man to death in Denver.The Denver District Attorney’s office says a jury on Monday found 37-year-old Christian Gulzow guilty of second-degree murder, following a four-day trial.Prosecutors say Gulzow fatally stabbed 29-year-old Brian Lucero in the parking lot of a Denver restaurant in May 2017.Police have said that witnesses reported seeing a man with white clown makeup with blac
  
  Read more

• Think you can ball? Show us. Register now 👉 hoop-it-up-r9388.sportngin.com/register/form/… … https://t.co/8gqi9e5A7n

  26-06-2018 19:25 via twitter.com
  
  Think you can ball? Show us.Register now 👉 hoop-it-up-r9388.sportngin.com/register/form/… … https://t.co/8gqi9e5A7n
  
  Read more

• Tribune editorial: Due process belongs to all, or to no one

  26-06-2018 19:16
  Are you a citizen of the United States of America? Or, perhaps, a legal resident?Can you prove it?With just the stuff in your pockets or purse?What if the ICE or Border Patrol agent doesn’t believe you? Or doesn’t care? Or isn’t about to allow you to call home, to find your passport (if you have one) or your birth certificate (if you know where it is)? Just because he doesn’t have to?That is the situation the president of the United States was longing for the other day wh
  
  Read more

• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Rudy Gobert wins DPOY, Donovan Mitchell voted the NBA’s best first-year Rookie

  26-06-2018 19:09 via sportspyder.com
  ...design could be sold in the Utah Jazz Team Store during the 2018-19 season. All you have to do is Tweet: ! What ar ...
  
  Read more

• Utahns favor the ballot initiative expanding Medicaid, even as the state seeks a smaller program

  26-06-2018 18:50
  For an extra penny on the price of a movie ticket, RyLee Curtis said, Utahns can provide essential health care to 150,000 of their neighbors, friends and family members. But state leaders warn such an expansion of Medicaid could eventually overtake much of the state budget, crowding out other needs.It’s a choice voters will make in November, when they consider an initiative to fully expand Medicaid in the state. The proposal would combine roughly $90 million — through a state sales t
  
  Read more

• 🇫🇷☝️🏆🎙️ #TakeNote https://t.co/LDPIGmgvFN

  26-06-2018 18:18 via twitter.com
  
  🇫🇷☝️🏆🎙️#TakeNote https://t.co/LDPIGmgvFN
  
  Read more

• [Deseret Morning News] - Jody Genessy: Rumor mill ready to start cranking up for LeBron James, free agency

  26-06-2018 17:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... s Miami-Boston-Utah-via-San-Diego recruiting trip. At every stop, the former Jazz star told people close to him that he thought that place might be his future ...
  
  Read more

• Jody Genessy: Rumor mill ready to start cranking up for LeBron James, free agency

  26-06-2018 17:25
  SALT LAKE CITY — If you hadn’t noticed, there are definitely signs that the NBA’s free agency period is quickly approaching.Even Sacramento is jumping on the LeBron James bandwagon — assuming, that is, the self-appointed king opts out of his Cleveland contract as many suspect he will.https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1011383489428504576The fun part about free agency is all the rumors that fly around leading up to the July 1 negotiating window. Well, that part is f
  
  Read more

• Supreme Court says crisis pregnancy centers do not have to provide women abortion information

  26-06-2018 17:08
  Washington • The Supreme Court says a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion probably violates the Constitution.The 5-4 ruling Tuesday also casts doubts on similar laws in Hawaii and Illinois.The California law took effect in 2016. It requires centers that are licensed by the state to tell clients about the availability of contraception, abortion and pre-natal care, at little or no cost.Centers that are unlicensed have to post
  
  Read more

• Make sure to wish our Defensive Player of the Year a VERY Happy Birthday! 🎈 Enjoy this one @rudygobert27 👊 #DPOY… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-06-2018 17:00 via twitter.com
  Make sure to wish our Defensive Player of the Year a VERY Happy Birthday! 🎈Enjoy this one @rudygobert27 👊#DPOY… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
  Read more

• Recycling fees in Utah may go up because one-fourth of the material thrown into blue bins is either not recyclable or contaminated

  26-06-2018 16:59
  The 83,000 households who count on the Wasatch Front Waste and Recycling District to pick up their cardboard and soda cans face a new $1-per-month fee increase, as China balks at taking Americans’ poorly sorted trash. Post-consumer plastic material is losing its value in China, and the change is clouding the future of curbside recycling in Utah and other states. It now costs many Wasatch Front cities more to recycle residential waste than it does to entomb it in landfills, undermining a cr
  
  Read more

• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Last Donovan Mitchell-Ben Simmons ROY spat?; Grayson Allen pick not surprising?

  26-06-2018 16:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... he group then gave serious analysis of the pick, with Russillo saying of the Jazz, "They might just go, 'Hey, let's just keep putting as many shooters out the ...
  
  Read more

• Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban

  26-06-2018 16:41
  Washington • The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, rejecting a challenge that it discriminated against Muslims or exceeded his authority.The 5-4 decision is the court’s first substantive ruling on a Trump administration policy.Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by his four conservative colleagues.Roberts wrote that presidents have substantial power to regulate immigration. He al
  
  Read more

• Morning links: Last Donovan Mitchell-Ben Simmons ROY spat?; Grayson Allen pick not surprising?

  26-06-2018 16:38
  If the seemingly unending banter concerning who should win the NBA's Rookie of the Year award between the Utah Jazz's Donovan Mitchell and the Philadelphia 76ers' Ben Simmons ended Monday night as Simmons took home the trophy, the Sixers got in a few last good jabs.With Mitchell having arrived at the NBA's awards show Monday night in a van that resembled his famous "Rookie" sweatshirt from Adidas, the Sixers doctored an image of the vehicle after Simmons won.https://twitter.com/utahjazz/status/1
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: ‘Focus is to sign Derrick Favors’ in free agency

  26-06-2018 16:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... s to be their power forward. RELATED PRODUCT Donovan Mitchell Utah Jazz Fanatics Branded Women's Fast Break Replica Jersey Navy - Icon Edition Buy N ...
  
  Read more

• Utah Jazz: ‘Focus is to sign Derrick Favors’ in free agency

  26-06-2018 16:06
  The Utah Jazz will reportedly make retaining unrestricted free agent power forward Derrick Favors a major focus this offseason. There have been a lot of questions surrounding the Utah Jazz heading into this summer’s upcoming free agency. Will they aim to make a big splash in a trade or free agent signing? What positions will […]
  Utah Jazz: ‘Focus is to sign Derrick Favors’ in free agency - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
  Read more

• Political Cornflakes: Conservative senator pushes back on Trump’s trade moves: ‘We’ve crossed the rubicon’

  26-06-2018 15:15
  Conservative senator pushes back on Trump’s trade moves: ‘We’ve crossed the rubicon.’ Utah primary day pits Romney vs. Kennedy and Curtis vs. Herrod. Poll: Utahns strongly oppose conventions as only route to the ballot.Happy Tuesday. Sens. Bob Corker, Jeff Flake and Utah’s Orrin Hatch — some of President Donald Trump’s fiercest GOP critics on trade — are retiring from the Senate at the end of this year. But Pat Toomey, the conservative Pennsylvania
  
  Read more

• It’s primary election day and turnout in Salt Lake County is already up because of vote by mail. Haven’t voted yet? Here’s how.

  26-06-2018 15:15
  As Election Day arrived Tuesday, 33 percent of Salt Lake County voters had already cast a ballot by mail.“Compared to other years, that’s excellent. And we expect a lot more” to vote on Election Day, said Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen. “For comparison, in 2016, we had less than a 27 percent turnout in the primary — and it was a statewide primary for both parties. So we’re doing really well this year.”Polls are open Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.I
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert brings home Defensive Player of the Year trophy

  26-06-2018 15:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... 3-pointers or Chris Paul‘s pinpoint passing. Simply put, it wins games — the Jazz closed the year on a 29-6 run after Gobert got healthy. His impact on the ha ...
  
  Read more

• New study suggests Utah’s by-mail voting boosts turnout among millennials

  26-06-2018 15:00
  Utah’s move to voting by mail has boosted turnout among millennials and other groups less likely to vote, according to new research released Monday, the day before the state’s 2018 primary election.The study, conducted by Pantheon Analytics and commissioned by Washington Monthly magazine, showed a 5 to 7 percentage point turnout increase in the state’s 21 counties that vote by mail in 2016 compared to the eight counties that voted primarily on Election Day. And the by mail coun
  
  Read more

• Letter: Utahns gotta rise up and do more than buy cookies to correct America’s course

  26-06-2018 15:00
  The front-page article "Buy a cookie, help a child” certainly shows the concern over Trump’s half-baked, heinous, zero-tolerance policy. So the public, by purchasing cookies, is helping with the legal costs to reunite families — the same public that, through our tax dollars, has paid for this immoral separation and incarceration of families.May I suggest that the bakers, as well as the rest of us who are appalled by the POTUS and spineless Congress, use the yeast of our anger a
  
  Read more

• Letter: Solve Utah’s housing crisis by paying Utahns more

  26-06-2018 15:00
  In the Tribune’s continued coverage of Utah’s housing crisis, there is much written about the proposals to change zoning laws, the process of developing affordable housing units, or about building shelters for the homeless.What isn’t mentioned are the measures the Utah State Legislature takes to deny a raise of the minimum wage, which keeps the average Utahn unable to meet the gap of higher housing costs even if these developers keep on developing until there is no land left. W
  
  Read more

• Letter: Romney has done enough damage to Utah already

  26-06-2018 15:00
  A few months ago, while announcing that he was going to run for U.S. Senate in Utah, Mitt Romney said that he would put Utah on the map. Sorry, Mitt, but you already did that when you helped to foist the Olympics on our fair state back in 2002. You invited the world here to expose our (once) wonderful canyons and alpine meadows to the Adnan Khashoggis of the world. Wealth took over. People are rattling around in 12,000-square-foot mansions that proliferate in our valleys and foothills.Now our pr
  
  Read more

• Letter: Nope, UDOT doesn’t care what Utahns think — just ask Davis County residents

  26-06-2018 15:00
  Regarding Tom Farkas’ question concerning UDOT: "Must we sue for truth?” Unfortunately, yes.Does UDOT adhere to the requirements of the law? Only if it does not interfere with its plans. We along the Highway 89 corridor have been experiencing UDOT’s operating methods for about a year.UDOT narrowed the study area for the Highway 89 project to just short of the I-15 interchange on the south and just short of the I-84 interchange on the north, as if there is no intent of connectin
  
  Read more

• Letter: Inland port debacle smells like old UTA corruption

  26-06-2018 15:00
  Impropriety: The quality or state of being improper.Greg Hughes’ self-appointment to the board of the Utah inland port and his subsequent attempt to change laws that disqualify him from that position represent the worst kind of political self-dealing that has come to corrupt our politics. This smells like UTA nonsense, the prison relocation and property development at future Trax stations (the locations of which are known only to a certain small group of individuals).Gov. Gary Herbert is a
  
  Read more

• Letter: Hatch and Curtis’ Utah lands bill is not is not a win for conservation

  26-06-2018 15:00
  Contrary to the claims of Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. John Curtis (as being a “win” for all stakeholders), their recent introduction of the Emery County Public Land Management Act of 2018 into Congress is hardly a “win” for conservation.Many provisions in the bill allowed local county commissioners to control the process without any real regard for Utahns outside of Emery County, Native American tribes, or the millions of Americans who own these federal lands. It also hands
  
  Read more

• Letter: Greg Hughes’ inland port actions show that he’s bad at everything

  26-06-2018 15:00
  What seems to be the problem, Rep. Greg Hughes? You voted for SB234, taking the inland port away from Salt Lake City and creating a state agency to “manage” it. Now it comes out that you are unable to be on the board after you appointed yourself. Are you a bad legislator/speaker of the House by not reading what you voted for? Are you a bad property owner by not knowing where your properties are? Are you a deceitful individual by appointing yourself to a board that you knew that you c
  
  Read more

• Leonid Bershidsky: Turkey’s Erdogan fought hard and won unfairly

  26-06-2018 15:00
  The existence of a vibrant political culture and a strong opposition to the political monopoly of the country’s long-term ruler were what separated Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey from Vladimir Putin’s Russia. After Erdogan’s victory in Sunday’s hotly contested presidential and parliamentary elections, however, these differences are likely to be eroded as Turkey sinks into an Islamic version of Putinism.It wasn’t a particularly impressive victory: Erdogan won th
  
  Read more

• Jennifer Rubin: We really do face an election in which the soul of America is up for grabs.

  26-06-2018 15:00
  President Donald Trump’s racist outbursts and disdain for our Constitution are, alas, nothing new. On Sunday, he tweeted, “We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents.”This is the language of totalitarianism, rule without civil rights. It’s t
  
  Read more

• Gehrke: After 18 months of turmoil, here’s why a majority of Utahns are still so loyal to Trump

  26-06-2018 15:00
  In Utah, he’s the Teflon Don. Donald Trump can do no wrong in the state, or at least not enough for his base to disapprove of his performance as evidenced by the recent poll from The Salt Lake Tribune and the Hinckley Institute of Politics.Despite what has to have been the most tumultuous first 18 months in generations, Trump’s approval rating in Utah continues to clunk along at 52 percent, actually experiencing a slight uptick since the first days of his administration.Here’s
  
  Read more

• Eugene Robinson: Trump’s trick of demonizing immigrants may no longer work

  26-06-2018 15:00
  Washington • President Trump created an immigration crisis to stoke resentment and anger among his base — traumatizing innocent children for political gain. Lacking any kind of moral compass, he makes a show of being pleased with what he has wrought. But you can smell his fear.Trump is desperate to keep his Republican congressional majorities, not because of anything they might accomplish but because he has cowed them into being afraid to hold him accountable. If his base is not motiv
  
  Read more

Follow @UtahJazz_News_ on Twitter!