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• Utah Jazz on likely playoff collision course with Portland

  06-04-2019 23:55
  Barring some surprising results in the final days of the NBA regular season, it appears that the Utah Jazz and Portland Trail Blazers are on a playoff collision course. It’s almost hard to believe, but the NBA Playoffs are merely a week away. It feels like just yesterday that Utah Jazz fans were panicking about […]
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• LDS Church tops 16.3 million members, but number reflects lowest net increase in 40 years

  06-04-2019 23:14
  Amid the 2018 statistic report announced Saturday by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there is a startling finding: the largest number of membership records ever removed in a single year — 140,868.It’s not a line item, but independent church demographer Matt Martinich has a way of calculating the number.To get the number of records removed, Martinich adds the number of convert baptisms to the increase in number of “children of record” born to Latter-day Sa
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah’s tourism explosion needs congressional leadership

  06-04-2019 23:00
  With spring arriving, tourists soon will be waiting in hours-long lines to snake their way up to Arches National Park.Meanwhile, traffic still is jamming every weekend afternoon in the Cottonwood Canyons as spring skiers drain out of the canyons.It could be worse. Campers in the Klondike Bluffs area near Moab are leaving poop behind to the point that it’s become unsanitary.In all cases, Utah’s natural beauty is getting beaten down by the very people who are there to enjoy it.Love hur
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz defeat Sacramento Kings... but the bigger story was Grayson Allen

  06-04-2019 22:24 via sportspyder.com
  Grayson Allen continues to impress. Is this a thing?
  
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• Former Democratic aide pleads guilty to ‘doxing’ GOP senators, including Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch

  06-04-2019 22:21
  A former congressional Democratic staff member pleaded guilty to posting private information about Republican senators on the website Wikipedia and threatening a witness who caught him on a computer in another lawmaker’s office.Jackson Cosko, 27, of the District of Columbia, admitted on Friday to "doxing" the senators after he became angry about being fired by one senator and then grew angry at other senators as he watched the hearing on sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Cour
  
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• Bluffdale Police seek help to find missing teen

  06-04-2019 21:57
  Bluffdale Police are seeking help to locate a teen after they say her family received a suspicious phone call, Fox 13 reported Saturday.A news release said Mia George, 15, was last heard from Thursday, when her family dropped her off at a TRAX station. She was planning to visit another family member’s home but never arrived.Police said Mia is considered to be endangered due to no contact within the past two days and a phone call telling her family, “Mia is fine and with someone who m
  
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• Larsen: We are living in an NBA golden age. Take the time to appreciate it.

  06-04-2019 21:37
  With just a few days left in the season, naturally, there’s been a lot of discussion recently of who should win all of the various post-season awards. Our Eric Walden has a great look at those races, for example, but all around the country, various papers, websites, blogs, front offices, coaches, and even the players are themselves having similar arguments.But when you allow yourself to step back and think about the totality of what we’re seeing; well, it’s pretty remarkable.Th
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell thinks Rudy Gobert ‘should be Defensive Player of the Year again’

  06-04-2019 21:35 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell thinks center Rudy Gobert “should be Defensive Player of the Year again.” Gobert won the award last season and is having another stellar defensive campaign for the Jazz in 2018-19. “Rudy, obviously,...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Larsen: We are living in an NBA golden age. Take the time to appreciate it.

  06-04-2019 21:34 via sportspyder.com
  With just a few days left in the season, naturally, there’s been a lot of discussion recently of who should win all of the various post-season awards. Our Eric Walden has a great look at those races, for example, but all around the country, various...
  
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• Practicing your faith, not just preaching it, can help change the world, Latter-day Saints told

  06-04-2019 21:20
  Latter-day Saints repeatedly were told at General Conference on Saturday that they can change the world and their families best by living — and not just talking about — the gospel of Jesus Christ.“I am asking that you ‘stand as witnesses’ of the power of the gospel at all times—and when necessary, use words,” said Elder Dieter Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.The theme surfaced often as the 189th Annual General Conference of The Church of Je
  
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• Judge rules New York county can’t ban unvaccinated children from schools, parks

  06-04-2019 21:08
  Ten days after a New York county banned unvaccinated children from public places in an effort to stem the rise of measles cases, a state judge put the injunction on hold."Children are hereby permitted to return to their respective schools forthwith and otherwise to assemble in public places," Judge Rolf Thorsen wrote in his Friday decision.The controversial ban, announced by a spokesman for Rockland County Executive Ed Day, was an effort to address an outbreak in Rockland County, where 167 confi
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - SLC Dunk Mailbag: Utah Jazz’s Grayson Allen, Donovan Mitchell and... Ostertag?

  06-04-2019 21:05 via sportspyder.com
  Here to answer more of your brilliant, insightful Utah Jazz-related questions!
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The best of the best: The Tribune’s NBA Awards

  06-04-2019 20:47 via sportspyder.com
  On Friday morning, the Utah Jazz revealed their “Encore 2019” campaign designed to help center Rudy Gobert win a second consecutive Defensive Player of the Year award.
  
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• The best of the best: The Tribune’s NBA Awards

  06-04-2019 20:36
  On Friday morning, the Utah Jazz revealed their “Encore 2019” campaign designed to help center Rudy Gobert win a second consecutive Defensive Player of the Year award.After that night’s demolition of the Sacramento Kings, in which Gobert added four more blocked shots, the ever-improving big man was asked about what the franchise’s bid to sway voters in his favor meant to him, and was partway through his response when Donovan Mitchell interjected.“You don’t nee
  
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• The latest from LDS General Conference: Be authentic in your religious life, apostle Uchtdorf counsels

  06-04-2019 20:32
  11:50 a.m.Building faith in Jesus Christ is the key to reversing the spiritual decline in families and homes, said President Henry B. Eyring, second counselor in the church’s governing First Presidency.“Faith is more likely to bring repentance," he said, “than your preaching against each symptom of spiritual decline.”Helping family members to grow in faith that Christ lives and is their loving redeemer will help them feel a desire to repent.“As they do, humility wil
  
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• Dave Rose elevated BYU basketball during his 14-year run, but the program stagnated towards the end. Is this still a good job?

  06-04-2019 20:18
  Provo • When he was asked about the difficulty of his job last summer in a relaxed and casual one-on-one setting, former BYU basketball coach Dave Rose brought up a conversation he had with a fellow Division I college basketball coach during an all-star camp for high school players in New York a couple years before that.The other coach had heard that “if a guy goes to BYU, he can’t smoke, drink or have sex” and wanted to know if that was true.“He said, ‘That&rs
  
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• Commentary: How do reasonable people become gun zealots?

  06-04-2019 20:18
  The 2019 Utah legislative session, dominated by LDS Republicans, was a stunning exhibit of Mormon values simply forgotten. Dismissed.The honest, otherwise decent legislators are probably good husbands, wives, fathers, mothers and loyal members of their faith. Yet it is shocking to observe the spectacular metamorphosis that occurs when they have to address a gun issue. Suddenly they become rabid, myopic disciples of the NRA, spouting the same old fears about the slippery slope to gun confiscation
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Here’s why Sacramento Kings guard Buddy Hield had a personal interest in the Salt Lake City Stars this season

  06-04-2019 19:45 via sportspyder.com
  Sacramento Kings guard Buddy Hield was college roommates with Isaiah Cousins of the Salt Lake City Stars at the University of Oklahoma. They caught up after last night's Jazz-Kings game in Utah....
  
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• Here’s why Sacramento’s Buddy Hield had a personal interest in the Salt Lake City Stars this season

  06-04-2019 19:34
  SALT LAKE CITY — Buddy Hield darted out of the visitors' locker room at Vivint Arena on Friday night.It wasn't because the Sacramento Kings suffered a 119-98 loss to the Utah Jazz, though. The former Oklahoma star had to catch up with a close friend.Waiting for Hield in the family section was his college roommate Isaiah Cousins of the Salt Lake City Stars. They caught up for so long after the game that Kings personnel had to warn Hield that the team bus was leaving soon."It's cool that we'
  
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• Here’s why Sacramento Kings guard Buddy Hield had a personal interest in the Salt Lake City Stars this season

  06-04-2019 19:34
  SALT LAKE CITY — Buddy Hield darted out of the visitor's locker room at Vivint Arena on Friday night.It wasn't because the Sacramento Kings suffered a 119-98 loss to the Utah Jazz, though. The former Oklahoma star had to catch up with a close friend.Waiting for Hield in the family section was his college roommate Isaiah Cousins of the Salt Lake City Stars. They caught up for so long after the game that Kings personnel had to warn Hield that the team bus was leaving soon."It's cool that we'
  
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• Commentary: New Utah gun safety law may help with soaring suicide rate

  06-04-2019 19:14
  We are in the midst of an epidemic involving our youth and skyrocketing suicide rates in Utah. As professionals in the field of social work, we have firsthand experience working with individuals affected by this problem.As social workers, we often work with clients who suffer from suicidal ideations and suicide attempts. When working with clients who are suicidal, our job is to determine the severity of these thoughts, whether or not a plan has been established and whether or not individuals hav
  
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• The latest from LDS General Conference: Be careful, not casual, in following God, says Young Women leader

  06-04-2019 19:05
  10:50 a.m.God sometimes answers prayers in unexpected ways, but that is for our good, Elder Brook P. Hales of the Seventy taught.“[Heavenly] Father is aware of us, knows our needs and will help us perfectly,” the general authority said. “Sometimes our most earnest and worthy desires are not answered in the way we hope, but we find that God has greater blessings in store. And, sometimes, our righteous desires are not granted in this life.”For example, Hales said a missiona
  
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• Dave Rose elevated BYU basketball in his 14-year run. But is this still one of the most desirable coaching jobs in the college ranks?

  06-04-2019 19:00
  Provo • When he was asked about the difficulty of his job last summer in a relaxed and casual one-on-one setting, former BYU basketball coach Dave Rose brought up a conversation he had with a fellow Division I college basketball coach during an all-star camp for high school players in New York a couple years before that.The other coach had heard that “if a guy goes to BYU, he can’t smoke, drink or have sex” and wanted to know if that was true.“He said, ‘That&rs
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Rudy Gobert keeps getting better, and that should make the rest of the NBA nervous

  06-04-2019 18:53 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert snatched a pass out of the air, moving toward the basket, the ball in his left hand, a massive defender crowding him from the right side. He couldn’t quite get to the rim, even with the advantage of an intercontinental extension, for a...
  
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• Monson: Rudy Gobert keeps getting better, and that should make the rest of the NBA nervous

  06-04-2019 18:30
  Rudy Gobert snatched a pass out of the air, moving toward the basket, the ball in his left hand, a massive defender crowding him from the right side. He couldn’t quite get to the rim, even with the advantage of an intercontinental extension, for a dunk, which was the beauty of the whole thing. Instead, he boosted toward the corner of the glass, after gathering his feet, kneecaps, hips, allowing them to catch up with his reach, powering through the human barricade with his lower body, his r
  
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• Commentary: The madness of religion leads to madness in our country

  06-04-2019 18:17
  Western religions allow people to believe in things that have absolutely no basis in reality or fact and this has led to the madness in our country now.It is Saturday morning and I am relaxing with my tea and reading. The doorbell rings, and two Mormons are at my door, delighted at the opportunity to push their beliefs on someone who did not invite them to do so.I ask for their address so I can go to their house while they are relaxing and talk them into switching to my spirituality. They do not
  
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• Gregory A. Clark: Critical thinking is the basis of science

  06-04-2019 18:08
  In one sense, we’re all natural-born scientists. Give a toddler an egg, and sooner or later, they’ll drop it, just to see what happens — as life and Neil deGrasse Tyson remind us.So why do we need to teach scientific experimentation, as the new proposed Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards would have us do? And what’s up with the claim that the scientific method is counterintuitive?Good questions. Let’s play, “I have a hypothesis.”I (natur
  
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• Dozens have fallen ill during a five-state E. Coli outbreak, and nobody knows where it’s coming from

  06-04-2019 18:00
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday it has yet to determine the source of an E. coli outbreak that has infected 72 people in five states — an admission one expert in foodborne illness called “perplexing,” considering how many have fallen victim to the illness.The recent spate of sickness, which began March 2, is directly linked to a strain of E. coli known as "O103,″ according to the CDC. Eight people have been hospitalized as a result of the O103 o
  
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• Bike-riding face slasher charged in Los Angeles

  06-04-2019 17:59
  Los Angeles • A man who rode around on a bicycle with a knife and slashed the faces and necks of nine people in Los Angeles has been charged with multiple felonies.The Los Angeles County district attorney's office says Friday that Lenrey Briones faces seven counts of aggravated mayhem, two counts of attempted aggravated mayhem and one count of attempted second-degree robbery. It's not known if the 19-year-old has an attorney.Investigators say Briones left his victims, including a 13-year-ol
  
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• Spring is the season for potholes: Here are some of the nastiest in the Salt Lake Valley

  06-04-2019 16:53
  It wasn’t just a pothole. It was massive hole — two-by-three feet — that allowed seeing all the way through the deck of an Interstate 15 bridge to the street below.It closed the freeway near 800 South recently for what turned out to be a quick fix but spectacularly kicked off the annual spring pothole season in Utah. So The Salt Lake Tribune asked readers to point out other places where potholes are nasty. A partial list follows.
  (Photo courtesy of FOX13) A pothole on a bridge
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Quin Snyder may want to experiment with lineups in the postseason

  06-04-2019 16:19 via sportspyder.com
  It’s generally considered taboo in the NBA to experiment with lineups in the postseason. For the Utah Jazz, it may be their best shot to make a run. For ...
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Dwyane Wade talks about finishing his career in Miami and other NBA podcasts of the day

  06-04-2019 15:46 via sportspyder.com
  All the top NBA podcasts compiled here on a daily basis so you don’t have to look for them. Enjoy! #179 – Just end the regular season already April 06 03:37 AM The Philadelphia 76ers fi…
  
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• Letter: Sen. Lee is an embarrassment to Utah

  06-04-2019 15:05
  As I was planning my retirement in Salt Lake City from Southern California, many friends and family members wondered incredulously why I would want to move to Utah."Have you been there recently?" I asked them all.I explained that Salt Lake City is a vibrant, mid-sized city with an admirable mass transportation system, rich cultural events, progressive political leanings and a surprisingly diverse population. And Utah is arguably the most beautiful state in our great Union.For quite some time, I
  
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• Letter: Vote to subpoena the Mueller report

  06-04-2019 15:03
  Every Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee voted last month to require that Attorney General William Barr hand over the full Mueller report to the committee, as well as a redacted version to the public. However, on April 3, every Republican, including all of the Utah representatives, voted against taking any action to actually make the report available.They are all complicit and are again putting party over country and their constituents — 75% of the public as per an NPR/PBS
  
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• Letter: Ski passes ruin mountain resorts

  06-04-2019 15:02
  It is no secret that Utah’s 2018-19 ski season will be remembered for great snow, but mostly for mind-boggling traffic jams, no parking and no seating at any of the resort restaurants. This problem is caused by the Epic and Ikon passes that have given people all over the nation special deals at multiple Utah resorts.I’d like to offer a solution that doesn’t require massive new road construction. For the Cottonwood Canyon resorts (Alta, Snowbird, Brighton and Solitude) I ask tha
  
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• Ramesh Ponnuru: Anti-abortion movement has momentum, but needs to move gradually

  06-04-2019 15:00
  For roughly 25 years, the movement against abortion has been predominantly incrementalist. Its focus has been on restricting abortion in relatively modest ways rather than on amending the Constitution to prohibit it altogether.In the 1990s, the anti-abortion movement began to campaign to ban a method of abortion they called "partial-birth abortion." More recently they have sought to ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation.The theory behind this strategy is that changes to the law would reduce
  
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• Letter: Too many people will limit our individual liberty

  06-04-2019 15:00
  Perhaps another perspective will help Sen. Mike Lee understand the folly of his recent Senate floor performance, and provide a reason for population conservatives to rethink their ideas about growth.Notwithstanding the certainty of sooner-than-we-think global and local calamities due to limited Earth resources versus accelerating population, another factor comes into play, namely, the loss of personal liberty.As more people occupy the same space, your idea of personal liberty becomes increasingl
  
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• Letter: Ski resorts do not need to grow to be successful

  06-04-2019 15:00
  The article by Brian Maffly looking at Cottonwood Canyon traffic and the Ikon/Epic passes was interesting.The unfettered greed of the resorts is disappointing. They utilize sensitive public and watershed land plus public infrastructure. They are successful and prosperous because of their terrain and snow quality, yet continue to push for insatiable profits and neverending expansion. They are not demonstrating good neighbor practices toward our region. Their shortsighted values are degrading the
  
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• Holly Richardson: Insights into the life of President Russell M. Nelson

  06-04-2019 15:00
  This weekend, tens of thousands will gather in downtown Salt Lake City to hear talks from leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, while millions more listen and watch online.For the faithful — and even just the curious — General Conference can be a time of spiritual guidance and renewal. Under church President Russell M. Nelson, General Conferences have also been a time of exciting and sometimes stunning changes.Changes are still coming, like Thursday’s reve
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - The 7 most important games of Russell Westbrook’s career

  06-04-2019 14:57 via sportspyder.com
  Earlier in the season, the Oklahoma City Thunder looked like the second-best team in the Western Conference. The Houston Rockets were struggling to find their footing, the Denver Nuggets were an upstart team that not many people took all that...
  
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• Utah’s ski resorts have seen record snow this year — and there’s still a month left on the slopes for some

  06-04-2019 14:00
  Davy Ratchford worked at resorts in Colorado and California before coming to Utah and starting a job at Snowbasin this year. He couldn’t have more perfectly timed the move.The ski resort, tucked into the mountains east of Ogden, is on track for a near-record season with almost 400 inches of powder. And more is still expected It’s been so good, in fact, that as the new general manager, Ratchford has decided to keep the slopes open for an extra week.“It could not have been a bett
  
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• [KSL] - The Jazz joke around a lot. They think that has helped them on the court.

  06-04-2019 08:24 via sportspyder.com
  It's easy to have a good time in wins, but the Jazz think the victories have come because they aren't afraid to have a little fun.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Triple Team: Jazz run over iffy Kings, with Rudy Gobert helping and Grayson Allen scoring again

  06-04-2019 07:53 via sportspyder.com
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 119-98 win over the Sacramento Kings from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz surpass last year's regular season win total as Grayson Allen stars in blowout of Sacramento Kings

  06-04-2019 07:47 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz have now won 49 games this season with three to go.
  
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• Utah Jazz surpass last year's regular season win total as Grayson Allen stars in blowout of Sacramento Kings

  06-04-2019 07:40
  SALT LAKE CITY — For the second time in as many home games, the Utah Jazz on Friday night faced a team they had reason to believe would make life difficult.On Monday, it was a Charlotte Hornets squad that is still fighting for its playoff life, but Utah was in control most of the way and won comfortably. On Friday, it was a Sacramento Kings team that, while eliminated from postseason contention, is a group on the rise.The Jazz, however, scored the first 13 points of the game, opened up a 3
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz run over iffy Kings, with Rudy Gobert helping and Grayson Allen scoring again

  06-04-2019 07:37
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 119-98 win over the Sacramento Kings from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.1. The Kings defense didn’t exactly bring a lot of resistanceWe’re to the point of the season that a major factor, maybe the major factor, in some of these games is whether or not the teams that the Jazz play care or not. Tonight, the Jazz faced the Kings on a second night of a back to back, already assured of missing the playoffs, without their starting center,
  
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• Utah Jazz cruise past Sacramento Kings for seventh straight victory

  06-04-2019 07:23
  The Jazz’s defense holding the Kings without a point for the first 3 minutes of Friday’s game and without a basket for the first 51/2 may have been enough to determine the outcome.And if it wasn’t, well, rookie guard Grayson Allen dropping 19 of his career-high 23 points in 10 first-half minutes — on 8-for-8 shooting, no less — may have simply shocked Sacramento into submission.An efficient outing for Utah on both ends paved the way for a not-that-close 119-98 victo
  
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• [NBA] - Rookie Grayson Allen's career night is 'just the beginning'

  06-04-2019 07:16 via sportspyder.com
  Grayson Allen is usually one of the first players dressed and out of the Utah Jazz locker room after games. But on Friday night, the rookie guard was among the last to leave.And his teammates let him
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Rudy Gobert talks about his DPOY album cover photoshoot

  06-04-2019 06:57 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert is deserving of his second consecutive Defensive Player of the Year award. Hear him talk about the photo shoot that went into his album cover deb...
  
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