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• Health care advocates say Utah’s limited Medicaid plan, now open for enrollment, leaves tens of thousands without coverage

  01-04-2019 23:46
  Leonard Bagalwa, a Congolese immigrant who helps Utahns find health insurance through federal programs, said he was excited when voters approved Proposition 3 last year, believing it would mean Medicaid coverage for his family beginning April 1.“Making enough money to survive is not always easy for us,” Bagalwa said.But on Monday, he said he continues to lack access to affordable health care after Utah lawmakers replaced Proposition 3 with a partial Medicaid expansion that leaves him
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Deandre Ayton could return Wednesday vs. Jazz

  01-04-2019 23:40 via sportspyder.com
  The last time that Phoenix Suns center Deandre Ayton was seen on the hardwood, he suffered what appeared to be a serious ankle injury that would put an end to his rookie season. But head coach Igor Kokoskov said Monday that he was hopeful Ayton...
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Troubling Downturn

  01-04-2019 23:28
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/29/bagley-cartoon-gop-health/" target=_blank><u>GOP Health Care to Die For</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/28/bagley-cartoon-medicaid/"><u>Medicaid Expansion of Our Own Design</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opi
  
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• Hotly disputed cattle-gate case ends with plea deal, but Colorado man proclaims his innocence, points finger at San Juan’s power brokers

  01-04-2019 23:19
  The alleged crime occurred on April Fools’ Day 2017, when a corral gate was closed on Lime Ridge in Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, a move San Juan County prosecutors described as a calculated attempt to kill cattle and disrupt a livestock operation.Not exactly a capital offense, but worthy of a felony conviction and prison time, in the eyes of local authorities who see attacks on ranching as a threat to southeastern Utah’s culture, custom and commerce.The case came to an
  
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• NASA is scrambling to meet the White House mandate to return astronauts to the moon by 2024

  01-04-2019 22:48
  NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Monday that the agency will need additional funding to meet a White House mandate to land people on the moon by 2024. But he did not say how much more money NASA would need or provide any specific details of how it plans to accomplish the mission.Speaking at a town hall meeting at NASA headquarters, Bridenstine made it clear NASA was scrambling to figure out how to get to the lunar surface before the presidential election in 2024. He said he was fully awar
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Threes of the Week - 4.1.19

  01-04-2019 22:42 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz made 34 threes in the course of three wins against the Suns, Lakers, and Wizards this week, and have raised a total of $51,550 for the Huntsman Canc...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Derrick Favors, Kyle Korver out for Utah Jazz against Charlotte Hornets, Raul Neto questionable

  01-04-2019 22:36 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz will face the Hornets on Monday night at Vivint Arena.
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Salt City Seven: Utah’s Uniquely Elite D, Playoff Picture, Dunks, Leads & More

  01-04-2019 22:34 via sportspyder.com
  Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that tell the stories from the last 168 hours in the world of the Jazz. We improved. Enter the Utah Jazz.
  
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• For decades, Garfield telephones kept washing ashore in France. Now the mystery has been solved.

  01-04-2019 22:30
  For more than 30 years, pieces of Garfield telephones kept washing ashore on the beaches of northwestern France, and no one quite knew why. Where was the lasagna-loving cartoon cat coming from?The mystery would puzzle the locals for years. His plastic body parts, first appearing in a crevice of the Brittany coast in the mid-1980s, kept returning no matter how many times beach cleaners recovered them. Sometimes they would find only his lazy bulging eyes, or just his smug face, or his entire fat-c
  
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• Derrick Favors, Kyle Korver out for Utah Jazz against Charlotte Hornets, Raul Neto questionable

  01-04-2019 22:28
  SALT LAKE CITY — Dante Exum was the only name on the Utah Jazz's injury report before last Friday's game against the Washington Wizards, but now at least two more players will miss Monday night's contest against the Charlotte Hornets, and it could be three.The Jazz on Monday morning announced that Derrick Favors will miss the game because of back spasms, and the team said on Monday afternoon that Kyle Korver will be out because of right knee soreness. Additionally, the team announced Monda
  
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• [KSL] - More than just a rapper: Jazz players remember Nipsey Hussle

  01-04-2019 22:03 via sportspyder.com
  Nipsey Hussle's work in his Los Angeles community inspired many, including members of the Utah Jazz.
  
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• Trump says census would be ‘meaningless’ without citizenship question

  01-04-2019 21:47
  President Donald Trump spoke out strongly Monday in favor of a contentious citizenship question that his commerce secretary added to the 2020 Census, asserting that the survey would be “meaningless” without the addition.In a morning tweet, Trump blamed "Radical Democrats" for trying to remove what he termed "the all important Citizenship Question" that has been derided by advocates for immigrants.Can you believe that the Radical Left Democrats want to do our new and very important Ce
  
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• ‘He had a great vision’: Utah Jazz players respond to death of L.A.-based rapper Nipsey Hussle

  01-04-2019 20:50
  When rapper Nipsey Hussle — a Grammy-nominated artist from the Los Angeles area — was shot and killed Sunday outside of a clothing store he owned, it had an immediate impact on the NBA community, including the Utah Jazz, with dozens of tributes on social media Sunday night.At Monday morning’s shootaround, when Jae Crowder and Rudy Gobert explained some of that impact, Hussle’s music was mentioned only in passing. Instead, it was his charity work in the Los Angeles area th
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Can Utah Jazz keep up the buzz against the Charlotte Hornets?

  01-04-2019 20:24 via sportspyder.com
  Winners of four straight, the Jazz look to continue their successful late season run.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - ‘He had a great vision’: Utah Jazz players respond to death of L.A.-based rapper Nipsey Hussle

  01-04-2019 20:14 via sportspyder.com
  When rapper Nipsey Hussle — a Grammy-nominated artist from the Los Angeles area — was shot and killed Sunday outside of a clothing store he owned, it had an immediate impact on the NBA community, including the Utah Jazz, with dozens of tributes on...
  
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• Landowners face $1M in liens over Keystone XL road dispute

  01-04-2019 20:00
  Rapid City, S.D. • Some South Dakota landowners are outraged over liens hitting their property related to the Keystone XL crude-oil pipeline.Iowa-based Brandenburg Drainage filed 23 liens totaling more than $1 million against Meade County landowners last month, the Rapid City Journal reported. The lien amounts ranged from about $3,600 to nearly $244,000.Brandenburg Drainage is a subcontractor of a company that developer TransCanada hired to improve county roads during the construction phase
  
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• Utah’s April Fools’ Day pranks have the Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell enlisting in the National Guard and elephants playing with Utah Symphony

  01-04-2019 19:59
  Utah organizations aren’t immune from the lure of April Fools’ Day jokes, posting what can literally be called “fake news.”The Utah Army National Guard took to Twitter first thing Monday morning with an announcement that Donovan Mitchell, the star shooting guard for the Utah Jazz, was going to enlist in the Guard.The Guard’s Twitter thread said Mitchell “will be enlisting as a cannon crewmember (MOS 13B) for his love of teamwork and shooting.” The tweet
  
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• Here’s what Andy Ludwig is changing about the Utes offense and what he’s keeping the same

  01-04-2019 19:58
  A month after Utah receiver Britain Covey’s knee surgery and a couple of hours into Andy Ludwig’s second stint in the Ute program, Covey visited his new offensive coordinator in January. He asked one fundamental question: What’s the look of a Ludwig offense?The answer impressed Covey. There's no such thing as a Ludwig offense.Ludwig's response reflects adaptability, as opposed to indecision. “He knows exactly what he wants to do,” said running backs coach Kiel McDon
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: The Point Joe Ingles experiment was a success

  01-04-2019 19:53 via sportspyder.com
  Joe Ingles typically isn’t brought up in superstar conversations, but for the Utah Jazz, he’s been vital to their success amidst injuries. For Utah Ja...
  
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• BYU’s spring football practices were all about building depth to compete with Utah, Washington and USC

  01-04-2019 19:42
  Provo • As they broke their huddle at the conclusion of every football practice in March, BYU players chanted the same two words in unison each time: “Beat Utah.”They say it is because the rival Utes are the next opponent on their schedule. The showdown is 150 days from Monday — Aug. 29 at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo. But it is obvious that the Cougars and their coaching staff are still smarting over the 35-27 loss to Utah on Nov. 24, a loss that seriously exposed BYU&
  
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• Democrats to prepare subpoenas for full Mueller report

  01-04-2019 19:17
  Washington • The House Judiciary Committee will prepare subpoenas this week seeking special counsel Robert Mueller’s full Russia report as the Justice Department appears likely to miss an April 2 deadline set by Democrats for the report’s release.The Judiciary panel plans to vote on subpoenas Wednesday, a day after the deadline. The chairmen of several House committees asked for the full, unredacted report last week after Attorney General William Barr released a four-page summar
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Derrick Favors out for Utah Jazz against Charlotte Hornets, Raul Neto questionable

  01-04-2019 18:46 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz will face the Hornets on Monday night at Vivint Arena.
  
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• Derrick Favors out for Utah Jazz against Charlotte Hornets, Raul Neto questionable

  01-04-2019 18:35
  SALT LAKE CITY — Dante Exum was the only name on the Utah Jazz's injury report before last Friday's game against the Washington Wizards, but now at least one more player will miss Monday night's contest against the Charlotte Hornets, and it could be two.The Jazz on Monday announced that Derrick Favors will miss the game because of back spasms, while Raul Neto is questionable because of concussion symptoms.Favors played until halftime on Friday but did not return as Jae Crowder started the
  
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• With church growth sputtering, does the Latter-day Saint missionary program need a tuneup or an overhaul?

  01-04-2019 17:58
  After hearing from nearly 7,000 returned Latter-day Saint missionaries — with their reports of hasty baptisms, uncooperative members and cultural barriers — researcher Matt Martinich came to a strong conclusion: The church’s global proselytizing system needs “urgent reform.”The Colorado Springs demographer recently summarized the problems he sees with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ missionary system, which sends tens of thousands of young peo
  
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• This Salt Lake roaster — devoted to sustainable beans — makes Utah’s best cup of coffee

  01-04-2019 17:58
  La Barba Coffee, which has two locations in Salt Lake City and one Draper — and a devotion to sustainable beans — serves Utah’s best cup of joe, according to a national list released Monday.Josh Rosenthal launched the roasting company seven years ago and today sells a mix of fair-trade, direct-trade and Rainforest Alliance Certified coffees. It’s a philosophy that helped it rise to the top of Food & Wine’s 2019 “Best Coffee in Every State" list.“Sinc
  
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• Hot for hot dogs — BYU students relish the chance to promote wieners as winners

  01-04-2019 17:57
  Orem • Hot dogs are in crisis.Away from the ballpark and next to the hamburger — their flashier fast-food cousin — the frankfurter seems boring and unhealthy.What the link sausage needs now is a real-life Don Draper who can make the wiener a winner again.A team of advertising majors from Brigham Young University has accepted the challenge.And just like the fictional Sterling Cooper agency from the popular “Mad Men” television series — minus the booze and smokes
  
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• Countdown to the count: Utah chose not to spend money to prepare for next year’s census. How much will it cost in the end?

  01-04-2019 17:57
  California is spending $154 million on ads and education to persuade all its residents to participate in the upcoming census because of the high stakes involved — millions in federal grants and congressional seats.“California is not leaving its fate to the federal government,” said Dita Katague, head of California’s Complete Count Committee. “I believe other states should not either.”So how much is Utah spending to make sure it is not shortchanged in the once-
  
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• A transgender woman’s stay at a Utah jail revealed good, bad and possibly dangerous practices

  01-04-2019 17:57
  All things considered, Ella Mae Vail said her stay at the Weber County jail was probably the best interaction she’s had with law enforcement. Most of the correctional officers used her preferred name and pronouns and seemed to care about her well-being.But for all the good, there was some bad.Like how Vail, a transgender woman, was so scared of being housed among men in the general jail population that she hurt herself to be placed in a mental health ward.Or how before she was assigned to
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Where will the Utah Jazz finish in the Western Conference?

  01-04-2019 17:38 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are in their final homestretch before the NBA Playoffs. Really anywhere between 3-7 is still in play!
  
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• Study says Utah is the second-least stressed state in America

  01-04-2019 17:27
  It may come as a surprise to anyone trying to navigate rush hour along the Wasatch Front, but Utah is the second-least stressed state in the union, according to a new study.WalletHub.com, a personal finance website, compared the states across 40 metrics — everything from average hours worked per week to personal bankruptcies to the percentage of adults who get enough sleep. Utahns ranked 49th overall — 49th in work-related stress; 47th in family-related stress; 37th in money-related
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Most people think local journalism is financially healthy, but reality is troubling

  01-04-2019 16:58
  Sometimes journalists just don't do a very good job of explaining their craft to the public.For example, I realized with a shock not too long ago that many people think anonymous sources are not only unnamed in news stories but actually unknown to the reporters who use them as sources. (That's definitely not so; reporters not only know who these people are but usually have to let an editor know, too.)I had another surprise like that last week when I read the results of a Pew Research public opin
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Where will the Jazz Finish?

  01-04-2019 16:30 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz are in their final homestretch before the playoffs. Where will the finish. Really anywhere between 3-7 is in play still!
  
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• Gehrke: If AG Sean Reyes’ job is to defend Utah’s laws, then he should drop the attacks on Obamacare

  01-04-2019 16:17
  Today is a historic day for the state.Uninsured low-income Utahns across the state can begin signing up to receive health coverage under Medicaid starting April 1 — an achievement that was years in the making and promises an opportunity for as many as 90,000 residents to lead a healthier, longer and more prosperous life.The landmark, however, may be short-lived.Last week, the Trump administration filed a brief in federal court supporting a Texas judge’s ruling that the Affordable Car
  
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• Crews detonate 11 train cars filled with fuel after derailment in Juab County

  01-04-2019 15:56
  Flames lit the night sky in Juab County on Sunday night when authorities detonated 11 leaking train cars that derailed early Saturday.The Environmental Protection Agency made the decision to “intentionally breach and thermally treat” nine tankers filled with propane and two filled with biodiesel fuel and then “remotely ignite the liquid that is released," according to an agency release. The cars were showing “signs of instability” and posed a threat to crews working
  
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• No April Fool’s Joke: Comedian who plays president on TV leads after first round of Ukraine presidential election

  01-04-2019 15:32
  Happy Monday!This is not an April Fool’s joke: A comedian leads after the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election.Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a political upstart who had never run for public office before, finished first with about 30 percent of the vote on Sunday, followed by incumbent Petro Poroshenko with 18 percent, according to exit polls. The rest of the vote was split among more than a dozen other candidates.Zelenskiy and Porosheko now will compete in a run-off in three weeks.
  
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• Letter: The president should be grateful for the process

  01-04-2019 15:07
  Investigations happen all the time, and many people are either declared to remain innocent or proven guilty. This president should be grateful to the process that it was exhaustive and thorough.This president should quit acting as though he is the only person who ever was investigated for something that he was close enough to, that it warranted a look. Remember that across America many investigations are not as thorough, and many innocent people litter our jail cells and prisons.President Trump
  
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• Letter: Finding hope in difficult times

  01-04-2019 15:04
  Thank you Pat Bagley for clearly identifying the winners and losers of the 2019 Utah legislative session.Thank you to The Salt Lake Tribune for pointing out the cowardly way that Gov. Gary Herbert allowed House Bill 220 to become law and Utah to become our nation’s dump for its most dangerous garbage, depleted uranium.Thank you to the hundreds of young people who left classes March 15 in solidarity with thousands all over the world to protest for our planet’s future.Thank you to Dr.
  
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• Letter: Senate has become a theater of the absurd

  01-04-2019 15:02
  The U.S. Senate has been transformed into a theater of the absurd. Sen. Mike Lee’s appalling performance on the Senate floor prior to a vote on the Green New Deal was not only an embarrassment — for him and for the people of Utah — but also reflects the Republican Party’s frivolous views on climate change.In addressing the most serious, and urgent, challenge the world faces at the moment, Lee put forth this simplistic solution:“[It] is not this unserious resolution
  
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• Letter: What kind of fools are we?

  01-04-2019 15:00
  After reading in The Salt Lake Tribune that most of the parents attending a Utah State Board of Education meeting believe that the science of evolution and climate change is a hoax, and teaching these fact-based disciplines is “scaremongering,” I have a proposal for a new state song for Utah.It would seem that “What a Kind of Fool Am I” would be most appropriate.Kendra Houser, MillcreekSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Sen. Lee has no solution to our problems

  01-04-2019 15:00
  A few days ago, Sen. Mike Lee said: “The solution to climate change is not this unserious resolution … The solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married and have some kids. ... Problems of human imagination are not solved by more laws, they’re solved by more humans.”Lee equated his statements to the more babies we have the more innovative ideas we will have in the future when they grow up.I have to agree with the senat
  
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• Letter: Other countries don’t have our rights

  01-04-2019 15:00
  In his March 27 letter to The Public Forum, Ken Roach states, “When gun ownership restrictions have been enacted in other countries, the citizens complied.”He then asks, “Why couldn’t we do the same for ourselves and our children?”The likely answer is that the compliant citizens of those other countries don’t have the same rights that American citizens are guaranteed under our Bill of Rights.Fred Fairclough Jr., Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: I’ll stick to teaching science

  01-04-2019 15:00
  Having read the comments regarding the new Utah school science standards, does “giving equal time” mean I have to find room in my curriculum to include astrology, alchemy and the flat-earthers?Science is not a democracy. We do not vote on which facts we want to recognize. Until creationists publish in a peer-reviewed journal, or a hominid fossil is found in strata older than 30 million years, I will stick to teaching science.Mark Bromley, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Craig Unger: Trump rose on Russian money. It was all legal.

  01-04-2019 15:00
  Collusion or not, President Donald Trump and the Russians are thick as thieves.What I mean is that for more than three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to the Russian Mafia held the deeds to, lived in or ran criminal operations out of Trump Tower in New York or other Trump properties. I mean that many of them used Trump-branded real estate to launder vast amounts of money by buying multimillion-dollar condos through anonymous shell companies. I mean that the Bayrock Group,
  
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• Anne Applebaum: France’s yellow vests highlight a gap between policy, how it’s perceived

  01-04-2019 14:00
  At the national level, support is dropping. More than half of French people now say they want the gilets jaunes — the yellow-jacketed protesters with a record of violence — to stop their demonstrations. An even bigger majority - more than two-thirds - agree that the protesters who still block traffic circles and march through Paris every weekend are not the same people, with the same motivations, who began the protests last fall.To many, it looks as though the movement that began as
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Utah takes on Charlotte, aims for 6th straight home win

  01-04-2019 09:36 via sportspyder.com
  Utah comes into a matchup against Charlotte after winning five games in a row at home
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Georges Niang appreciation day and discussing the best matchups for the Jazz in the playoffs

  01-04-2019 08:06 via sportspyder.com
  The S stands for shotmaking
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Week 25 Outlook: Jazz eyeing home court in first round

  01-04-2019 07:23 via sportspyder.com
  Winners of four straight, the Utah Jazz will look to continue to finish out the season strong as they have their sights set on home court advantage in the ...
  
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