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• Brad Rock: How can the Jazz keep Donovan Mitchell in Utah long term? Get him some help

  25-04-2019 23:59
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell leaves after talking to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday's loss to Houston in the playoffs.Dennis Lindsey, Utah Jazz general manager, talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday's loss to Houston in the playoffs.Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsDen
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - These defensive metrics of Eric Gordon on Donovan Mitchell are insane

  25-04-2019 23:52 via sportspyder.com
  The Houston Rockets defeated the Utah Jazz in five games during the first round of the playoffs thanks in large part due to Eric Gordon.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rudy Gobert says he has ‘been putting too many limits’ on himself, wants to hit ‘next level’ with Jazz

  25-04-2019 23:40 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert is planning to improve this game this offseason, a response to his team’s inability to perform at a high level in the playoffs. Gobert said that it’s time for him to elevate his game. Gobert: "I want to take it to the...
  
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• These defensive metrics of Eric Gordon on Donovan Mitchell are insane

  25-04-2019 23:33
  The Houston Rockets defeated the Utah Jazz in five games during the first round of the playoffs thanks in large part due to Eric Gordon.
  He was able to lock down offensive juggernaut Donovan Mitchell despite not being seen as an elite defender. The 6-foot-4 guard is rarely celebrated for his defense and most measurements say he is sub-par in this regard. Gordon ranked No. 79 among 115 shooting guards during the regular season in ESPN’s Real Defensive Plus-Minus.
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The best of Utah Jazz 2019 exit interviews

  25-04-2019 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  What Jazz players had to say on their way out of the 2018-19 season.
  
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• They saved lives and gave their lives — Red Cross honors Utah’s everyday heroes

  25-04-2019 22:56
  A teenager puts up a fight to save her baby sister. A husband and wife rescue a man pinned under car. And an 81-year-old who has donated 22 gallons of blood.These ordinary people who stepped up in life-threatening situations were among 18 people honored Thursday during the 2019 Everyday Heroes recognition, sponsored by the American Red Cross in Utah.“You’ve inspired others with your good work,” Executive Director Adam Whitaker told the heroes and their families gathered at Litt
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Ricky Rubio admits he was ‘hurt’ by trade rumors

  25-04-2019 22:49 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have been eliminated from the playoffs, and there are some questions regarding the future of Ricky Rubio. The point guard was involved in some trade rumors earlier this season, and he’s now set to become an unrestricted free agent....
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Even though the 2018-19 Jazz couldn’t always shoot straight, they were straight shooters

  25-04-2019 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  Nice guys finish … what’s this, fifth?
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz sharpshooter Kyle Korver is mulling retirement, but will take some time, get healthy before he makes a decision

  25-04-2019 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  Kyle Korver was one of only six 38-year-olds to play in the NBA this season. Of those players, only Dwyane Wade played more minutes.
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - This is how the Utah Jazz head into the offseason

  25-04-2019 22:47 via sportspyder.com
  HoopsHype breaks down the Utah Jazz’s 2019 offseason, including salaries, free-agent targets and even trade targets.
  
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• This is how the Utah Jazz head into the offseason

  25-04-2019 22:45
  If this season’s edition of Utah Jazz basketball was to be judged by the progress they made compared to their 2017-18 season, then there’s no way their year can be described as anything but disappointing. They couldn’t get out of the first round of the playoffs this season, after making it to the second round each of the prior two campaigns; they started the regular season off slowly despite returning most of their team from last year; and – most concerning of all, perhap
  
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• Jazz sharpshooter Kyle Korver is mulling retirement, but will take some time, get healthy before he makes a decision

  25-04-2019 22:44
  Kyle Korver was one of only six 38-year-olds to play in the NBA this season. Of those players, only Dwyane Wade played more minutes.So therefore, it’s not an unfair question: Does Korver still have the competitive fire to sign up for another season?“As you get older, there’s all of what you need to put into the game, but there’s also a family cost,” Korver said. “That’s probably where I’m at, weighing that cost.”In particular, Korver referenc
  
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• Is chalking a parked car an unconstitutional search? A federal appeals court said yes in a case Utah cities are watching

  25-04-2019 22:37
  Tire chalk, a common tool in municipal parking enforcement, was recently declared unconstitutional by a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals, with judges equating the practice to a warrantless search of private property.The ruling — stemming from a lawsuit against Saginaw, Mich. — does not apply to Utah, but representatives for cities in The Beehive State say they’re keeping an eye on the nascent, anti-chalking precedent.“City attorneys are looking a
  
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• Monson: Even though the 2018-19 Jazz couldn’t always shoot straight, they were straight shooters

  25-04-2019 22:33
  Nice guys finish … what’s this, fifth?Nice guys get eliminated in the first round.Thing is: Can they finish first? Can they hack and hammer through to the top?What I’m about to write here about the Jazz is a little out of the ordinary.I don’t know these guys, not really. Not up close and personal. I have no clue as to whether Donovan Mitchell is the all-world good guy he seems to be, always helping little old ladies across the street, never acting like the jerk he once t
  
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• Donovan Mitchell knows there’s another level he needs to get to. He’s going to spend the offseason preparing to make that jump.

  25-04-2019 22:31
  His summer itinerary is already completely mapped out. It’s going to be nowhere near like last spring, when Donovan Mitchell stepped up to the podium in a walking boot, asked to try and put into words his tantalizing rookie year and what lay ahead in the coming months. Last summer, after the world got to see the Donovan Mitchell the NBA was earlier introduced to, he made stops in Serbia, Spain, China and the Philippines. The requisite superstar stuff that comes along with the gig.“Th
  
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• Live: Rudy Gobert wants more for the Jazz and himself next season: ‘I’ve been putting too many limits on myself and what I can be for this team.’

  25-04-2019 22:29
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rockets star James Harden says ‘the sky’s the limit’ for Donovan Mitchell

  25-04-2019 22:19 via sportspyder.com
  Houston Rockets star James Harden believes “the sky’s the limit” for Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell. Harden and the Rockets defeated Mitchell and the Jazz in the first round of the playoffs in five games, and it was a struggle for Mitchell.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jae Crowder says he plans on recruiting for Jazz in free agency

  25-04-2019 22:19 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz small forward Jae Crowder plans on recruiting for the franchise this summer once free agency starts on July 1. The Jazz could have roughly $39 million in cap space this summer, although that number would decrease if Utah keeps big man...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Donovan Mitchell knows there’s another level he needs to get to. He’s going to spend the offseason preparing to make that jump.

  25-04-2019 22:18 via sportspyder.com
  His summer itinerary is already completely mapped out. It’s going to be nowhere near like last spring, when Donovan Mitchell stepped up to the podium in a walking boot, asked to try and put into words his tantalizing rookie year and what lay ahead...
  
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• Salt Lake City puts $100,000 toward helping police, firefighters, nurses and teachers purchase a home

  25-04-2019 21:54
  Salt Lake City launched a new housing strategy Thursday aimed at helping vital blue-collar workers afford homes in Utah’s capital.Meant for nurses, teachers, police, firefighters, dispatchers and EMTs who will work and live in the city, the Community Heroes program will put $100,000 toward down payment assistance over the next year, paid for with sales tax money from the city’s new Funding Our Future initiative.Though they perform jobs essential to keeping the city running, officials
  
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• BYU graduates its biggest class ever with blue gowns, smiles and jokes about the history of the 'Y' on Provo’s mountainside

  25-04-2019 21:53
  When Brigham Young University was founded in 1875, students wanted to mark the Provo location by putting their school’s initials on the mountainside.They started with the letter “Y” so that it would be centered, said BYU President Kevin Worthen, and they carted bags of sand and limestone hundreds of feet up the hill. Before that first installment was finished, though, many students had passed out from exhaustion and the group decided not to add the “B” or the &ldquo
  
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• Another Utah school district plans to raise teacher salaries. But will $43,500 be enough to keep up?

  25-04-2019 21:53
  In what seems to be shaping into a serious arms race to raise teacher pay, Granite School District announced Thursday that it would increase its annual salary for starting educators to nearly $43,500.That’s a smaller hike — both in percentage and total wage — than what nearby Canyons School District unveiled one day earlier. But the package comes without raising property taxes, boasted Karyn Winder, president of Granite’s board of education, and includes access to a new h
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Kyle Korver could weigh retirement in the offseason

  25-04-2019 21:19 via sportspyder.com
  Following a quick 4-1 exit at the hands of the Houston Rockets, the road ahead is still unclear for Utah Jazz sharpshooter Kyle Korver, who could ponder retiring during the offseason. The longtime 3-point specialist was noncommittal when talking...
  
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• MyKayla Skinner will train for the 2020 Olympics, but leave open possibility of returning to Utah gymnastics

  25-04-2019 21:04
  Utah gymnast MyKayla Skinner will try to make the USA Gymnastics team for the 2020 Olympics, possibly ending her Ute career after three highly successful seasons.Skinner has been invited to the National Team Camp in June, the school said in a news release. “I see the opportunity to pursue an Olympic berth as a chance of a lifetime,” Skinner said. "If things don’t work out for whatever the reason, I plan to return to the University of Utah for my senior year.”Ute coach Tom
  
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• Dana Milbank: Stephen Moore needs a vacation from women

  25-04-2019 21:00
  Washington • Stephen Moore, one of President Trump’s many exotic picks to staff the federal government, declared this week that his opponents are “pulling a Kavanaugh against me.”Moore, Trump's pick for the Federal Reserve Board, is so convinced he is being treated like Brett Kavanaugh, whose Supreme Court confirmation was marred by sexual-misconduct allegations, that he reportedly hired a PR firm that helped Kavanaugh.Any day now, Moore will appear before the Senate Banki
  
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• Commentary: Latter-day Saint Romney was never Christian enough for some Republicans. Somehow, Trump still is.

  25-04-2019 20:38
  When Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, ran for president in the 2008 GOP primary, many evangelical Christian voters were reluctant — putting it mildly — to support him, because of his membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.One of Romney’s opponents, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, exploited this hesitance by trying to instill fear about the differences between himself and Romney: “Don’t Mormons,” Huckabee trolled in a New York Times Magazine
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Live coverage: Utah Jazz's Dennis Lindsey and players talk about the 2018-19 season

  25-04-2019 20:19 via sportspyder.com
  Follow along here throughout the day for live coverage as general manager Dennis Lindsey, head coach Quin Snyder and the players meet with the media.
  
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• How many local governments does Utah have? Census Bureau counts 619

  25-04-2019 20:00
  The U.S. Census Bureau is known for counting people. But on Thursday, it also released a census of all the local governments in America.It found that in 2017, Utah had 619 local governments — from counties to cities, school districts, water districts, cemetery districts and more. Of course, all of them collect taxes and/or fees.Back in 1942 — more than 75 years earlier — Utah had a mere 303 such local governments.For the record, here is what the latest census of local governmen
  
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• Photos: BYU graduates its biggest class ever with blue gowns, smiles and jokes about the history of the 'Y' on Provo’s mountainside

  25-04-2019 19:59
  When Brigham Young University was founded in 1875, students wanted to mark the Provo location by putting their school’s initials on the mountainside.They started with the letter “Y” so that it would be centered, said BYU President Kevin Worthen, and they carted bags of sand and limestone hundreds of feet up the hill. Before that first installment was finished, though, many students had passed out from exhaustion and the group decided not to add the “B” or the &ldquo
  
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• A Utah teen who admitted to bringing a bomb to school will be on a strict probation for the next 4 years

  25-04-2019 19:57
  A southern Utah teen who tried to ignite an explosive device at Pine View High School was sentenced to time behind bars and probation.Martin Farnsworth, 17, pleaded guilty in adult court in March to attempting to use an incendiary device to injure someone. The case was initially filed in the juvenile court, but he struck a plea deal after the case was moved to the adult system.On Wednesday, Farnsworth was sentenced 415 days in a juvenile detention center and 48 months probation, according to his
  
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• Utah Cold Case Coalition launches ambitious plan to run its own DNA testing lab to help crack unsolved crimes

  25-04-2019 19:56
  The Utah Cold Case Coalition is aiming for something its founders call “revolutionary” in the cracking of unsolved crimes: The first DNA testing lab operated by a nonprofit.Coalition co-founders Karra Porter and Jason Jensen announced Thursday the group’s plans to build its own DNA testing lab in a tree-shaded two-story office complex in Murray.“This is going to revolutionize cold cases across the United States,” Porter said. “We saw this need and it was too b
  
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• MyKayla Skinner will start training for the 2020 Olympics, while leaving open the chance she’ll return to Utah’s gymnastics program

  25-04-2019 19:56
  Utah gymnast MyKayla Skinner will try to make the USA Gymnastics team for the 2020 Olympics, possibly ending her Ute career after three highly successful seasons.Skinner has been invited to the National Team Camp in June, the school said in a news release. “I see the opportunity to pursue an Olympic berth as a chance of a lifetime,” Skinner said. "If things don’t work out for whatever the reason, I plan to return to the University of Utah for my senior year.”Ute coach Tom
  
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• Tell The Tribune: What’s the worst advice your mother ever gave you?

  25-04-2019 19:47
  Mom — she knows a thing or two about life and love. On occasion, though, she’s been known to slip up and offer less-than-stellar guidance. Think back to your childhood and tell us “What’s the worst advice your mother ever gave you?”Your responses won’t be published without your permission. A reporter from The Salt Lake Tribune might reach out for further comment.window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.3.min.js"><\/sc
  
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• Commentary: Seeing the divinity in everyone might give our politics a new start, says MoveOn co-founder

  25-04-2019 19:42
  I’m a secular person. As a co-founder of MoveOn, the political organizing group, I’ve talked for years about how most people want to do good and aim to be kind. I’ve spoken of the need to respect and honor the dignity of all people.This year I’ve learned an even deeper way to talk about this work, using language from faith communities that are embracing this movement to love our neighbors, even those we with whom we disagree.Last year I was at a conference in Boise, Idaho
  
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• Red All Over: Utah forward Donnie Tillman is going through the NBA’s early entry process and Britain Covey earns a ‘Ute Proud’ award

  25-04-2019 19:39
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here. Observers of Utah’s basketball program were mildly alarmed this week when forward Donnie Tillman filed for early eligibility in the NBA draft. Following the news that center Jayce Johnson is in the NCAA transfer portal, Tillman’s move seemed like another setback.My interpretation? If anything, the way that Tillman is viewing his basketball future should be considered healthy for himself and the
  
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• Live: Jazz wrap up the season with Thursday press conference at the Zions Bank Basketball Campus

  25-04-2019 19:39
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• Eye on the Y: Another UVU player says he is following new BYU men’s basketball coach Mark Pope to Provo

  25-04-2019 19:22
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Another former Utah Valley University basketball player is headed across town to BYU, but this one will probably have to sit out a year before playing for the Cougars.A day after Stadium.com reported that UVU grad transfer Jake Toolson — the 2018-19 Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year — was transferring back to BYU, the same website reported that the WAC’s Freshman of the
  
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• [Uproxx] - The Jazz’s Ceiling Is Clear Until They Find More Offensive Help

  25-04-2019 19:18 via sportspyder.com
  Utah must decide this summer whether to stay the course and remain a good, not great team, or swing big to upgrade their offense.
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: 3 takeaways from Game 5 loss vs. Rockets

  25-04-2019 18:52 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz fell to the Houston Rockets in Game 5 of the Western Conference quarterfinals to have their 2018-19 season come to an end. Here are three tak...
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Oaks draws fire for comment on race, Scottish politician laments anti-LDS bigotry

  25-04-2019 18:50
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: Sex talk
  (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Finlayson-Fife)Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, a Latter-day Saint therapist in Chicago.Latter-day Saints are taught time and time again that sexual relations are absol
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Live: Jazz wrap up the season with Thursday press conference at the Zions Bank Basketball Campus

  25-04-2019 18:12 via sportspyder.com
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• Brunch at Salt Lake City’s new Stratford Proper is exactly what diners want — if they can handle the noise

  25-04-2019 18:11
  The dictionary says the word “proper” means suitable, fitting, right.At Stratford Proper Cafe & Bistro, the third restaurant from the creators of Avenues Proper and Proper Burger Co. — this one on a quiet neighborhood street — we found several dishes were exactly what we wanted.Like the southwestern Benedict ($12): poached eggs spilling yolk over cornbread combined with pico hollandaise. And the breakfast sausage omelet, the size of the plate, delivering a hefty porti
  
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• Aretha Franklin sings sweet sounds, recalls roots in ‘Amazing Grace’ documentary

  25-04-2019 18:03
  Standing at the pulpit of a Los Angeles Baptist church in 1972, Aretha Franklin — known more for hits like “Respect” and “Chain of Fools” — started singing her own rendition of “Amazing Grace.”As she sang the ode to divine deliverance, Franklin prompted members of the congregation at the recording of the gospel album to shake their heads and raise their arms.The rhythm and blues star took on the role of a minister of music as she rendered one gospe
  
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• The Satanic Temple is a real religion, says IRS

  25-04-2019 18:00
  The Almighty may not think the Satanic Temple is a church.But the taxman has given it the thumbs-up.The Satanic Temple, which is featured in a documentary called “Hail Satan?,” announced this week that the IRS now recognizes it as a church.That recognition means the group can now get the same benefits as religious organizations — including tax exemption and protection from discrimination.In a statement, Lucien Greaves, founder of the media-savvy group, said that “acceptin
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Live coverage: Utah Jazz's Dennis Lindsey, Quin Snyder and players talk about the 2018-19 season

  25-04-2019 17:53 via sportspyder.com
  Follow along here throughout the day for live coverage as general manager Dennis Lindsey, head coach Quin Snyder and the players meet with the media.
  
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• Leonard Pitts: No more wishy-washy feelings about impeaching Trump. Do it. Now.

  25-04-2019 17:35
  I'll admit that I've been wishy-washy about this.In May of 2017, shortly after Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey and spilled top-secret information to the Russians, I took to this space to chide his party for its silence in this monstrosity of a presidency and to demand action. "Impeach him now," I wrote.By January of this year, my ardor for that remedy had cooled somewhat. I wrote that while Trump surely deserves impeachment, the politics of the moment would make that futile, as Senat
  
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• Live coverage: Utah Jazz's Dennis Lindsey, Quin Snyder and players talk about the 2018-19 season

  25-04-2019 17:30
  Dennis Lindsey, Utah Jazz general manager, talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday's loss to Houston in the playoffs.Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsDennis Lindsey, Utah Jazz general manager, talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday's loss to Houston in the playoffs.Kristin
  
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• Live coverage: Utah Jazz's Dennis Lindsey and players talk about the 2018-19 season

  25-04-2019 17:30
  Dennis Lindsey, Utah Jazz general manager, talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday's loss to Houston in the playoffs.Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsDennis Lindsey, Utah Jazz general manager, talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday's loss to Houston in the playoffs.Kristin
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Joe Biden makes the case: He’s the guy to defeat Trump

  25-04-2019 17:03
  Video: Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to announce his bid for president on April 25. Here’s a look at the two other times he ran for president. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)
  Former Vice President Joe Biden announced his run for the presidency via video Thursday morning.Biden, unlike every other 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, made his kickoff announcement about - and only about - defeating President Donald Trump. That underscores his stature, puts him in a class
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell will not be broken

  25-04-2019 16:41 via sportspyder.com
  After arguably the worst performance of his career and having his season ended, Donovan Mitchell vows to improve.
  
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