Basketball - Utah Jazz news

• Salt Lake City Council overrides Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s veto on the city’s housing trust fund but restores some funding for the homeless

  28-06-2019 23:39
  The Salt Lake City Council voted swiftly Friday to override most of Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s first-ever vetoes, effectively leaving in place the council’s decision to move control of a $2.59 million loan fund for affordable housing to a different arm of city government.With a 7-0 vote and no discussion, the council upheld its decision to transfer the city’s Housing Loan Trust fund away from the purview of the Housing and Neighborhood Development Division, or HAND, to the city&r
  
  Read more

• [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: Rudy Gobert has it figured out; go tell it to your kid

  28-06-2019 23:17 via sportspyder.com
  After a second Defensive Player of the Year Award, don't expect the Jazz big man to change. That's a good thing. A very good thing.
  
  Read more

• Thousands gather at Stonewall 50 years after LGBTQ uprising

  28-06-2019 23:15
  50th anniversary of the rebellion that catalyzed a movement for LGBTQ liberation, marking the milestone with celebrity performances, speeches and personal reflections.People from New York and afar came to take photos and share in the legacy of the gay bar where patrons resisted a police raid, sparking protests and longer-term organizing that made the cause of LGBTQ rights considerably more visible."Fifty years ago, people stood up for their rights, and look where we're at now. We've got flags al
  
  Read more

• Utes hire women’s tennis coach from Fresno State

  28-06-2019 23:13
  Ric Mortera is moving from Fresno State to Utah as the Utes' women's tennis coach, athletic director Mark Harlan announced Friday.Mortera, 32, coached the Bulldogs for one year, after three successful seasons as Texas Tech's associate head coach. Before that, the former Oregon tennis player was an assistant at Purdue and Illinois.He was hired to replace Mat Iandolo, who coached the Utes for 12 years and was dismissed in May after what Harlan labeled “a comprehensive review of the program.&
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Brad Rock: Rudy Gobert has it figured out; go tell it to your kid

  28-06-2019 23:02
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) is greeted by fans as he leaves the court after winning over the Boston Celtics at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018.Spenser Heaps, Deseret NewsUtah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) with three little fans during the national anthem as the Utah Jazz play the Indiana Pacers Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City.Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsUtah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) gives knuckles to Utah fan Calvin E
  
  Read more

• Don Gale: Let’s have a carbon tax that works

  28-06-2019 23:00
  Congress should move quickly to impose a so-called “carbon tax.” It’s an effective strategy for speeding up efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The problem is that those who push for the tax believe they have a better chance of success if they couple it with a promise to distribute money from carbon tax revenue to “the people.” That’s a prescription for failure. Money gained from a carbon tax would be better spent on repairing the infrastructure.First,
  
  Read more

• Hometown golfer Daniel Summerhays takes the second-round lead in the Utah Championship

  28-06-2019 22:16
  Farmington • Daniel Summerhays shot a 3-under-par 68 in Friday’s second round of the Utah Championship and moved into the lead of the Korn Ferry Tour event as of early in the afternoon at Oakridge Country Club.Summerhays is 8 under for the tournament; first-round leader Robert Garrigus, who teed off at 1 p.m., started the day at 7 under. Six players currently are at 6 under.Summerhays, a former Davis High School and BYU golfer, made four birdies and one bogey in the second round. He b
  
  Read more

• Reports: Real Salt Lake has picked up Everton Luiz’s contract from his Italian parent club

  28-06-2019 22:15
  Real Salt Lake has bought out the contract of Everton Luiz from his parent club, S.P.A.L., per multiple reports. The news was first reported by the Italian club on its website.RSL acquired Luiz on loan in January. The club had the option the buy his contract at the end of the season, but appears to have done so earlier.Luiz, who plays the attacking midfielder position, has fit in seamlessly with the club’s style of play. He quickly made regular appearances in the starting lineup before a h
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Salt Lake City Council overrides Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s veto on the city’s housing trust fund but restored some funding for the homeless

  28-06-2019 22:06
  The Salt Lake City Council voted swiftly Friday to override most of Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s first-ever vetoes, effectively leaving in place the council’s decision to move control of a $2.59 million loan fund for affordable housing to a different arm of city government.With a 7-0 vote and no discussion, the council upheld its decision to transfer the city’s Housing Loan Trust fund away from the purview of the Housing and Neighborhood Development Division, or HAND, to the city&r
  
  Read more

• [Deseret Morning News] - Here's how other Western Conference contenders' free agency moves could affect the Utah Jazz

  28-06-2019 22:02 via sportspyder.com
  A look at some Western Conference teams that could make moves to compete as the NBA's free agency period gets closer.
  
  Read more

• Here's how other Western Conference contenders' free agency moves could affect the Utah Jazz

  28-06-2019 22:00
  Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard holds his playoffs MVP trophy during the NBA basketball championship team's victory parade in Toronto, Monday, June 17, 2019. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)APSALT LAKE CITY — Ahead of the start of NBA free agency at 4 p.m. MDT Sunday, the Utah Jazz have signaled that they want to be true contenders in the Western Conference after trading for Memphis point guard Mike Conley.The Jazz could still open up a bunch of money to spend, depending on wha
  
  Read more

• Alabama woman charged in fetal death, her shooter goes free

  28-06-2019 21:50
  Montgomery, Ala. • An Alabama district attorney’s office hasn’t decided whether to prosecute a woman indicted for manslaughter after she lost her fetus when she was shot during a fight.Marshae Jones was five months pregnant when 23-year-old Ebony Jemison shot her in the stomach during a December altercation over the fetus's father, authorities said.Jemison was initially charged with manslaughter, but a Jefferson County grand jury declined to indict her after police said an inves
  
  Read more

• [NBA] - Big man Tony Bradley wants to show big improvements in his third Utah Jazz Summer League run

  28-06-2019 21:12 via sportspyder.com
  Mothers always see their sons as their babies.This week, though, Tony Bradley’s mom reminded him just how young he actually is. Bradley may be preparing for his third NBA Summer League, but the
  
  Read more

• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - PODCAST: 2019 Utah Jazz free agency preview

  28-06-2019 21:05 via sportspyder.com
  We’re entering the quiet before the storm
  
  Read more

• Avowed white supremacist gets life sentence in car attack

  28-06-2019 20:48
  Charlottesville, Va. • An avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia was sentenced to life in prison Friday on hate crime charges.James Alex Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio, had pleaded guilty in March to the 2017 attack that killed one person and injured more than two dozen others. In exchange, prosecutors dropped their request for the death penalty. His attorneys asked for a sentence less than life. He will be sente
  
  Read more

• Hugh Hewitt: Democrats win when they reach to the next generation

  28-06-2019 20:30
  Thursday's Democratic debate was superior in every respect to Wednesday's. It seems there is an advantage to being on the panel on the second evening: a significant opportunity to scout out the journalists asking questions, to survey the audience and to gauge the look and feel of the venue.But even if the second part's actors hadn't had those built-in edges, they all benefited from an almost palpable uptick in intelligence and sincere passion, led by the two clear winners: Sen. Kamala Harris, D-
  
  Read more

• Ogden house fire kills one person late Thursday

  28-06-2019 20:28
  One person died in an Ogden house fire on Thursday night.According to a news release from the Ogden City Fire Department, the person — whose name, age and gender have not been released — was found inside the home, 2016 Monroe Blvd., and transported to a local hospital, where he/she later died.Crews arrived at the fire — which was confined to one room in the home — shortly after 11 p.m., and extinguished it within several minutes. The damage is estimated at $40,000.The cau
  
  Read more

• Watch this video and see what’s inside that giant Salt Lake City building. Hint: it’s liquor worth up to $40 million

  28-06-2019 20:27
  The Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has released its latest informational video that takes consumers inside the giant Salt Lake City liquor warehouse.At any one time, the white building — which stands 110 feet tall and is located at 1625 S. 900 West — is filled with $40 million worth of wine, beer and spirits.In the 6-minute video, posted on YouTube, warehouse general manager James Mangun explains how the liquor agency receives, stores and distributes liquor using a hig
  
  Read more

• ‘Stak’ staying strong: A former Kearns football captain and Homecoming King is adjusting to life after accident left him paralyzed

  28-06-2019 20:27
  Kearns • The sudden rustling of bags of fast food awaken this once-silent home. Doors start to swing open, because everyone is ready to eat. The new elongated dining table, now a few steps away from the original near the kitchen, has seats occupied all around it. It’s about 3:30 p.m. on a weekday afternoon and the smell of McDonald’s fries and burgers instantly overtake the Afatasi household. The other kids are worn out, drained from early morning summer football workouts, or fo
  
  Read more

• Rail replacement to complicate TRAX travel in Salt Lake City for next 9 days

  28-06-2019 20:26
  Replacement of some 20-year old rail in downtown Salt Lake City will disrupt commuting for the next nine days on TRAX light rail trains, and complicate car travel on South Temple.The Utah Transit Authority is replacing the track between its Temple Square and Arena TRAX stations, with work scheduled to begin on Saturday and end July 7.During that time, UTA will provide “bus bridges” between the stations, or passengers may choose to walk the block or so between them. A bus bridge also
  
  Read more

• Police arrest Ayoola Ajayi and seek aggravated murder charges in the death of MacKenzie Lueck

  28-06-2019 20:26
  Investigators say missing University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck has died — and they have arrested a Salt Lake City man who police say killed her and burned her body.Ayoola Ajayi, 31, was being booked into jail on suspicion of aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, desecration of a body and obstruction of justice after a SWAT team took him into custody Friday morning at a West Temple apartment complex, said Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown.“I will not be saying the kille
  
  Read more

• Kathleen Anderson — self-described ‘conservative outsider’ — becomes first Republican challenger to Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams

  28-06-2019 20:26
  Kathleen Anderson, a Republican activist, on Friday announced her bid to reclaim the 4th Congressional District for the GOP."I'm not a politician. I'm a conservative. I'm an outsider. And I'm ready to be a voice for those who are not being heard," Anderson said in YouTube video introducing her candidacy.The congressional district is currently represented by U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams, a Democrat who unseated Republican Mia Love last year. Anderson, who has lived in Utah for 34 years, said a news rele
  
  Read more

• Both teams are below the playoff line, but Real Salt Lake expecting the usual, high intensity battle when it hosts Sporting Kansas City

  28-06-2019 20:25
  Herriman • Real Salt Lake and Sporting Kansas City know each other very well. The two teams teams faced off four times last season, the last two being the two legs of the Western Conference semifinals of the MLS Cup playoffs.SKC eliminated RSL in that playoff round last year. And who can forget the 2013 MLS Cup final where the two teams made it all the way to penalty kicks only for Salt Lake to fall?Over the years, the rivalry between Sporting and Real has been exciting, memorable and, at t
  
  Read more

• Eugene Robinson: Harris made Biden appear like a man of yesterday, not tomorrow

  28-06-2019 19:45
  Washington • The biggest impact of this week’s two-night, 20-candidate Democratic extravaganza is that a new star has emerged: Sen. Kamala Harris of California turned in one of the best debate performances I’ve ever seen. She earned herself a place in the upper tier of the crowded field. Now we’ll see if she has what it takes to climb all the way to the top — and stay there.Harris’ ascent came at the expense of front-runner Joe Biden, who had such a disappointi
  
  Read more

• E.J. Dionne: Kamala Harris gambled and won

  28-06-2019 19:06
  Sen. Kamala Harris of California went all in on every level Thursday night, taking a Democratic presidential contest that has been relatively well-mannered and turning it electric and confrontational. She already had the best performance of the night with a series of fluent and passionate statements before she took on former vice president Joe Biden on racial issues. Having underperformed after a strong start to her campaign, she gambled that pressing her advantage by attacking the front-runner
  
  Read more

• [NBA] - Get Fit for 3v3 — Upper Body Mobility

  28-06-2019 18:40 via sportspyder.com
  BANDED FACE PULL (3 SETS 10 REPS) Stand upright with back straight Grab a band on each end Pull ends away from each other extending arms out Mid band should come toward face or chest
  
  Read more

• [Deseret Morning News] - AP source: Lakers trading 3 to Wizards, clear cap space

  28-06-2019 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  The Los Angeles Lakers' price tag for Anthony Davis got a little steeper on Thursday, with the tradeoff being that the team now has the flexibility to bring another max-contract star to play...
  
  Read more

• AP source: Lakers trading 3 to Wizards, clear cap space

  28-06-2019 18:35
  FILE - In this March 16, 2019, file photo, New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis brings the ball up during the first half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Phoenix Suns in New Orleans. Two people familiar with the situation say the Pelicans have agreed to trade Davis to the Los Angeles Lakers for point guard Lonzo Ball, forward Brandon Ingram, shooting guard Josh Hart and three first-round draft choices. The people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because
  
  Read more

• [Deseret Morning News] - How Paul Millsap could return to the Utah Jazz

  28-06-2019 17:38 via sportspyder.com
  ESPN concocted best- and worst-case scenarios for every team in the NBA, and Millsap fans in Utah will love one of the possibilities.
  
  Read more

• How Paul Millsap could return to the Utah Jazz

  28-06-2019 17:25
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) drives around Denver Nuggets forward Paul Millsap (4) in the second half during an NBA basketball game Tuesday, April 9, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)APSALT LAKE CITY — The best-case scenario for the Utah Jazz this free-agency period might include a blast from the past.ESPN concocted best- and worst-case scenarios for every team in the NBA, and Paul Millsap fans in Utah will love one of the possibilities.It would have to happen like this,
  
  Read more

• Utah woman arrested for falsely reporting her husband had killed her

  28-06-2019 16:48
  A 44-year-old Bluffdale woman was arrested after a fight with her husband — because she reported he had shot and killed her.At 2:05 a.m. on Tuesday, Bluffdale police were contacted by another woman who said she had received texts from the husband’s cell phone number “stating he had shot his wife and didn’t know what to do,” according to a probable cause statement. The woman asked if he was serious, and “she received more text messages … confirming it wa
  
  Read more

• Catherine Rampell: Trump’s proposed tennis ball tariff represents a grand slam of terrible trade policy

  28-06-2019 16:47
  Want to know how ill-conceived President Trump’s proposed China tariffs are? Look to the tennis ball tariff.It represents a sort of grand slam of terrible trade policy.Head Penn Racquet Sports, a division of Colorado-based Head USA Inc., makes the best-selling tennis ball in the United States. It sells about 65 million balls under its "Penn" brand each year, representing nearly two-thirds of all branded tennis ball sales in the United States.Like other brands, Penn balls used to be made in
  
  Read more

• Supreme Court to decide on Trump bid to end DACA

  28-06-2019 16:44
  Washington • The Supreme Court will decide whether President Donald Trump can end an Obama-era program shielding young immigrants from deportation.The justices’ order Friday sets up high-stakes legal arguments in the fall, with a decision likely by June 2020 as Trump seeks re-election. Trump ordered an end to the program called DACA in 2017, resulting in protests and a failed congressional effort to salvage it.Federal courts in California, New York, Virginia and Washington, D.C., mean
  
  Read more

• Helper city councilman formally charged with sexually abusing his neighbor

  28-06-2019 16:00
  A Helper city councilman has been formally charged with burglary and forcible sexual abuse of his neighbor — along with intoxication and lying to authorities.The charges stem from a June 10 incident when Darren Vaughn Cloward, 49, entered his neighbor’s house “uninvited” and “made some suggestive statements about her and her swimsuit," according to a probable cause statement. The neighbor told police Cloward later entered her home a second time, went downstairs to h
  
  Read more

• Weekly Run podcast: The Derrick Favors decision, who else is available in free agency, 2nd round picks

  28-06-2019 15:55
  It’s time for the Jazz to make a decision: do they want to keep Derrick Favors, or use his cap slot for other players available in free agency?With the help of the Dunc’d On Podcast’s mock offseason, we take a look at the team’s choices in free agency, as well as what kinds of contracts each will get. Here’s the salary sheet we use:This, compiled by @Spencer_Wixom, is a list of contracts agreed to from the Nate Duncan mock offseason. You have the choice between givi
  
  Read more

• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: The Derrick Favors decision, who else is available in free agency, 2nd round picks

  28-06-2019 15:48 via sportspyder.com
  It’s time for the Jazz to make a decision: do they want to keep Derrick Favors, or use his cap slot for other players available in free agency?
  
  Read more

• George Pyle: Ask the candidates what books they have read

  28-06-2019 15:15
  “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”― Bertrand RussellI’m not so certain about that.An alternative explanation is that the main problem with the world is that there are too many toys and too few books.Those of you who loyally follow this space will have seen the anti-toy argument before. Some people are so devoted to their precious playthings — guns, cars, trucks, off-r
  
  Read more

• Scrapped tax overhaul bill haunts new round of talks about state’s financial stability

  28-06-2019 15:14
  State legislators have made it clear they’ve gone back to the drawing board on tax reform after this year’s breakdown of a bill that would’ve expanded the sales tax to a wide array of service-related transactions.But the bill’s ghost was very much present at a Thursday town hall in Kearns, where a newly formed task force of state lawmakers gathered to hear public input.Speaking to the group, Don Shelton, a South Jordan financial adviser, described the administrative night
  
  Read more

• Ashton: How a visit to the town Calamity Jane and Wild Bill made famous got me thinking about the 2020 presidential race

  28-06-2019 15:12
  What do presidential debates and Deadwood have in common?Not much. Unless you count blustering rhetoric, overbearing personalities and guns drawn.I mention Deadwood because I just returned from a research trip there. I’m writing a book about Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok, and this famous South Dakota town will be forever associated with the notorious duo.Research expeditions are the best part of my job. It was an epic road trip with my co-authors. We got to see a wolf pack prowling, t
  
  Read more

• Kirby: What are you afraid of?

  28-06-2019 15:11
  I am trying to teach my youngest granddaughter Ada, age 5, not to be afraid of spiders. It’s relatively easy given that she’s interested in bugs.Her favorite bugs are roly-polys, the little gray potato or pill bugs that curl up into a ball. She collects them. More than one roly-poly bug has curled into a ball in our backyard and uncurled at the library or city hall.A couple of years ago, Ada spotted a small black fuzzy spider crawling around on the ceiling. She was frightened until I
  
  Read more

• Political Cornflakes: A look inside Joe Biden’s not-so-great debate night

  28-06-2019 14:24
  Happy Friday! Sen. Kamala Harris had a good night. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg did too. Former Vice President Joe Biden? Not so much. The second round of the initial Democratic debates showed the divide among those seeking the presidency and there were a few breakout moments that may determine who is likely to still be in the race come Iowa and New Hampshire and who might want to head home. [Politico] Winners and losers from the second round. [WaPost]Topping the news: Republican leade
  
  Read more

• Scott D. Pierce: ‘The Office’ is leaving Netflix, and streaming is getting more and more expensive

  28-06-2019 14:00
  Oh, no! “The Office” is going to disappear from Netflix!The sitcom — which went off the air more than six years ago — will no longer be on Netflix as of 2021. Which means you’ve only got 18 months to watch the 201 episodes that originally aired on NBC from 2005-2013. (If you start July 1, you’ll have to watch a 22-minute episode every 2.73 days.)If you don’t make it, you’ll have to stream episodes on NBC Universal’s still-unnamed new service,
  
  Read more

• Letter: Trump’s policies are inhumane and cruel

  28-06-2019 14:00
  If cats and dogs were living in shelters without proper bathing, simple hygiene, medical attention or warm beds, would the folks in charge be called out?And what would be the outrage be if there were untreated fleas, distemper or rabies making their way through the shelters? What if all mental stimulation was cut off by those folks in charge?Luckily, most animal shelters are not run or organized like that. They are humane shelters that are run by people who care and have a love for the living.Un
  
  Read more

• Letter: Trump’s not our type

  28-06-2019 14:00
  E. Jean Carroll has accused the president of sexual assault and President Trump’s immediate response was, “She is not my type.”A crass and uncouth comment from anyone, much less the president of the United States.How about giving him some of his own medicine by declaring, “He is not my type?”Louis Borgenicht, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
  Read more

• Letter: Time to replace the spineless lot of them

  28-06-2019 14:00
  Every American, whether they voted for Donald Trump or not, should be ashamed of our electoral process. And be ashamed of themselves for allowing him to be elected.Additionally, we should be ashamed of our senators and congressmen who continue to sit silently and allow POTUS to plow forward with wrong-headed and anti-American policies. Yes, anti-American. This country has spent the last 100 years developing a strategic foreign policy, and Trump is unraveling it on a daily basis.Let’s name
  
  Read more

• Letter: Think about the victims and the officers

  28-06-2019 14:00
  There have been numerous incidents of police shootings or officers drawing their weapons, such as in Woods Cross and in Ogden, about which I would like to comment.First of all, I am in complete agreement with the families, and especially the parents of people who have been shot by police officers, and understand that they should take legal action against the city and police department involved in the shootings if there is probable cause for such action.But my second point is about the police off
  
  Read more

• Letter: Preserve the integrity of the presidency

  28-06-2019 14:00
  It is imperative to impeach President Donald J. Trump.Here are a few of his “high crimes and misdemeanors”:Special counsel Robert Mueller reported that the Trump campaign “welcomed” Russia’s interference with the 2016 election.Mueller’s report confirmed that members of Trump’s campaign met with Russian representatives 127 times, while Trump claimed there were no meetings.Trump attempted to obstruct justice in at least 10 instances, including firing FBI D
  
  Read more

• Letter: Listen to Mueller’s testimony

  28-06-2019 14:00
  On July 17, Robert Mueller is scheduled to testify to members of Congress.I sincerely hope that Mueller will be able to convince and remove all doubt that President Donald Trump did commit numerous acts of treason and that the members of Congress should act accordingly.Stan Jacobson, OgdenSubmit a letter to the editor
  
  Read more

Follow @UtahJazz_News_ on Twitter!