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• [Deseret News] - How Mike Conley's strong faith has helped in transition from Memphis Grizzlies to Utah Jazz

  08-07-2019 23:45 via sportspyder.com
  New Jazz members Mike Conley and Bojan Bogdanovic participated in an introductory press conference Monday in Las Vegas. "Faith is big in my family and for me, I was never able to get distracted...
  
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• Commentary: ‘Stranger Things’ sees Latter-day Saints as ‘super-religious white people.’ Sadly, that’s a bit too true.

  08-07-2019 23:38
  Season 3 of the Netflix hit “Stranger Things” features a rare discussion of ism — but not in a good way.Without spoiling any plot points beyond the first half-hour of the season, Dustin, the curly headed geek we’ve grown to love, has fallen for a Utah girl at science camp.In typical Dustin fashion he doesn’t want to just call her on the phone from his home in Indiana, because that wouldn’t be nearly nerdy enough. So he rigs up “Cerebro,” the ham ra
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Mike Conley ‘excited’ about playing for Jazz and competing for a championship

  08-07-2019 23:26 via sportspyder.com
  Mike Conley was introduced as the starting point guard of the Utah Jazz on Monday and the lefty is excited for the new chapter of his NBA career. The Jazz acquired Conley from the Memphis Grizzlies. Conley, who is universally recognized as one of...
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Penalty Kick

  08-07-2019 23:13
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/05/bagley-cartoon-democrats/" target=_blank><u>Democrats Wooing Who?</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/03/bagley-cartoon-pet-peeve/"><u>Pet Peeve</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/02/bagley-car
  
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• Commentary: Look at what the United States has become

  08-07-2019 23:00
  I recall, on this July 4, feeling distinctly less patriotic, less proud of our nation and less hopeful for the future than in years past. I look around at what the United States has become and question if we’ve truly lost our way and will we ever recover.We are building concentration camps to house Central American immigrants and refugees. Poverty is rampant through our cities, with one in four Americans having less than $1,000 in their unable to pay for even a $400 emergency. Rampant gree
  
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• Here’s what Mike Conley and Bojan Bogdanovic said during their first news conference as Utah Jazz players

  08-07-2019 22:59
  Las Vegas • Sitting behind a temporary dais in an opulent meeting room at the Encore Hotel, new Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic said there was a simple reason why he decided to sign with the team in free agency.“I looked at the roster,” he said.Bogdanovic and new point guard Mike Conley — acquired in a predraft trade with the Memphis Grizzlies — were introduced to reporters in town for the Las Vegas Summer League on Monday.The Jazz have jettisoned nearly half of the pl
  
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• Mia Love says she might have to run against Ben McAdams if Utah Republicans can’t recruit a strong candidate

  08-07-2019 22:58
  Mia Love may not be done with bruising congressional campaigns just yet.Now a commentator with CNN after losing one of the tightest congressional races in the nation last year, Love told the Deseret News she’s considering a rematch against first-term Rep. Ben McAdams, largely because she doesn’t think any of the Republican challengers who have stepped forward so far can unseat the Utah Democrat.“If I don’t have to get in the race, I won’t,” she told the News.L
  
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• The state of Utah is ready to let thousands more employees work from home. But that doesn’t mean they can spend all day in their pajamas.

  08-07-2019 22:52
  The stereotype about working from home is that it’s a golden opportunity for employees to binge Netflix without ever changing out of their pajamas, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox said.Yet quite the reverse was true in a recent state pilot project, he told reporters Monday, revealing that productivity went up by more than 20% among the 136 employees who participated in the program."When we talk about why productivity goes up, I think a huge part of that is because those hourlong commutes are soul-suc
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Here’s what Mike Conley and Bojan Bogdanovic said during their first news conference as Utah Jazz players

  08-07-2019 22:34 via sportspyder.com
  Las Vegas • Sitting behind a temporary dais in an opulent meeting room at the Encore Hotel, new Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic said there was a simple reason why he decided to sign with the team in free agency.
  
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• [KSL] - Mike Conley eager for chance with Jazz in wide-open NBA | KSL.com

  08-07-2019 22:17 via sportspyder.com
  Mike Conley knows his new opportunity with the Utah Jazz is special.
  
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• Women’s soccer league seeks more fans, sponsors after World Cup title

  08-07-2019 22:10
  Megan Rapinoe, the lavender-haired icon of women’s soccer, maintains that green is the key to her sport’s sustainability."For me, it's about the Benjis," she said.Women’s soccer engages the U.S. every four years, then disappears for most fans like a comet leaving the solar system. In the wake of the Americans’ record-setting fourth World Cup title Sunday, the hard part remains: the weekly work of boosting the National Women’s Soccer League, where average attendance
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz introduce Conley and Bogdanovic, and embrace the expectations that come with their offseason success

  08-07-2019 22:07 via sportspyder.com
  LAS VEGAS — Mike Conley Jr. and Bojan Bogdanovic stood side by side in a Las Vegas hotel ballroom and unfurled their brand new, white Utah Jazz jerseys. Bogdanovic’s No. 44 dangled in front of his
  
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• Cameron Boyce, Disney channel mainstay and ‘Grown Ups’ actor, dies at 20

  08-07-2019 22:00
  Cameron Boyce, a young Disney Channel star who also appeared in Adam Sandler films, died Saturday at age 20."It is with a profoundly heavy heart that we report that this morning we lost Cameron," a spokeswoman for the Boyce family told The Washington Post on Sunday in a statement. "He passed away in his sleep due to a seizure which was a result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated. The world is now undoubtedly without one of its brightest lights, but his spirit will liv
  
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• Josh Rogin: British ambassador’s leaked cables are far from ‘bombshells’

  08-07-2019 21:42
  The British ambassador to Washington, D.C., apparently told his superiors in London that President Donald Trump is “insecure” and “incompetent” and the Trump administration is “dysfunctional,” according to secret cables leaked to the British media, which is calling them “bombshells.” To our British friends: Keep calm and carry on. This is obvious analysis so widespread in Washington as to be downright banal. Your ambassador was just doing his job.O
  
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• Why Mark Madsen traded the fast-paced Lakers lifestyle to coach Utah Valley University

  08-07-2019 20:03
  Orem • Mark Madsen has a Jamba Juice in one hand and a stack of papers in the other when he enters the top floor of the NUVI Basketball Center. It’s his gym now.So he looks out at the youth basketball camp going on below, then turns a corner into his new office that, admittedly, isn’t nearly Mark Madsen enough yet. The walls are still too bare for his liking. All in due time they’ll be dolled up with family photos, images of his NBA career that included a couple titles, ph
  
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• Obamacare’s survival may hinge on some technical legal questions

  08-07-2019 20:00
  The fate of Obamacare, the law that President Donald Trump campaigned on repealing and replacing, could hinge on several technical points of law as a federal appeals court prepares to decide whether it’s unconstitutional.And the appeal of whatever the three-judge panel rules may land the Affordable Care Act back at the U.S. Supreme Court and in the public eye as the 2020 presidential election season is in full swing.Several legal observers say they don't expect the U.S. Court of Appeals fo
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Ranking their 2019 offseason additions so far

  08-07-2019 19:45 via sportspyder.com
  With the Utah Jazz making a handful of moves already this offseason, we rank the new additions that will be coming to Salt Lake City in 2019-20. This offse...
  
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• Federal-state program to tackle Idaho forest projects

  08-07-2019 19:39
  Boise • State and federal officials have identified 6,700 square miles in Idaho to test a plan that allows state participation in federal timber sales to pay for restoration work on private, state and federal lands.Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Monday announced that the U.S. Forest Service and state officials had identified landscape-scale projects in northern and west-central Idaho as part of a federal-state agreement called Shared Stewardship.The agreement is intended to improve forest health
  
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• Lawsuit blames Durango rail company for Colorado wildfire in 2018

  08-07-2019 19:32
  Denver • A company that operates a historic railroad that carries tourists through Southwest Colorado’s mountains and forests was accused July 2 in a lawsuit of causing the 416 Fire, one of the largest wildfires in state history.Federal investigators found that a coal-burning engine operated by the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad and American Heritage Railways threw cinders or other hot material onto brush near its track and started a fire on June 1, 2018, according to t
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: ‘Democracy ... is about to die in Youngstown’ with closing of local newspaper

  08-07-2019 19:12
  Youngstown, Ohio • Mere moments after the start of the hastily called community forum, the tears started to flow."Gobsmacked" was how one Youngtown reader described her horrified reaction to the surprise announcement, just days before, that the city's 150-year-old daily newspaper, The Vindicator, would publish its last edition on Aug. 31.And Mary Beth Earnheardt, who teaches journalism at Youngstown State University, briefly left the meeting room at the local history center to pull herself
  
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• David Von Drehle: Mad magazine is dying. Maybe we should worry.

  08-07-2019 18:57
  The demise of Mad magazine is hardly a surprise. Times are tricky for print publications in general — all the more so for a title targeted with exquisite precision at middle-school boys. They are Nature’s neglected travelers, parked on an apron while the girls they used to know go racing down the evolutionary runway and take flight into the wild blue of adulthood.Because life has, for the moment, scorned them, they return the favor, and for a couple of generations, Mad was both a tut
  
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• Before moon landing, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin learned geology in Grand Canyon

  08-07-2019 18:45
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin knew they would be the first to walk on the moon, they took crash courses in geology at the Grand Canyon and a nearby impact crater that is the most well-preserved on Earth.Northern Arizona has had deep ties to the Apollo missions: Every moon-walking astronaut trained here, and a crater on the moon was even named in honor of the city of Flagstaff."It's a really interesting and unique part of our history, and it's really cool to think
  
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• Financier Jeffrey Epstein charged with federal sex trafficking crimes involving minors

  08-07-2019 18:36
  Federal prosecutors on Monday unsealed new sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein, alleging the politically connected multimillionaire abused dozens of female minors at his Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida, homes and enlisted his victims to expand a network of possible targets.Epstein — who was arrested over the weekend and is expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan — had previously pleaded guilty to Florida state charges of soliciting prostitution to resolve alleg
  
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• [NBA] - 'Let's go do something special': Mike Conley Jr. is ready to start a new chapter with the Utah Jazz

  08-07-2019 18:14 via sportspyder.com
  As the car moved along Salt Lake City’s east side, the man in the back pulled out his cellphone to take a photo of the downtown skyline and the mountains in the background. A few hours earlier, Mike
  
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• NBA Daily: Tony Bradley Shows Growth In Summer League

  08-07-2019 18:00 via basketballinsiders.com
  Good statlines in the Summer League are nothing new to Tony Bradley, but this particular showing has him believing he's grown both as a player and as a leader, writes Matt John.
  
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• Dave Rose opens up on why he retired from BYU basketball, his father’s recent death, and Nick Emery’s missteps

  08-07-2019 17:34
  Provo • It has been a little more than three months since Dave Rose announced he was stepping away from his pressure-filled position as BYU’s men’s basketball coach and into retirement.In a half-hour interview with The Salt Lake Tribune last week, Rose reminisced about his 22 years in Provo, the past 14 as the leader of one of BYU’s most successful athletic programs.Rose said he has “no regrets whatsoever” about that late-March decision to call it a career, a m
  
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• Utah is one of at least three states where ICE went through driver license records with facial recognition software

  08-07-2019 16:26
  Washington • Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through hundreds of millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show.Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years, obtained through public-records requests by Georgetown University researchers and pro
  
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• Keith Humphreys: Reducing demand isn’t enough to fight the opioid crisis

  08-07-2019 16:01
  West Virginia and Vancouver, Canada, could not be more different in their responses to the opioid crisis. In West Virginia, addiction treatment programs are in short supply, with waiting lists as long as a year, and many people can't access existing programs because they lack health insurance and are too poor to pay out of pocket. The state's most populous city, Charleston, has exactly one needle exchange program, after political opposition closed another one. Meanwhile, city, state and federal
  
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• A matter of faith: Democrats embrace religion in campaign

  08-07-2019 15:47
  Washington • When 10 Democratic presidential candidates were pressed on immigration policy during their recent debate, Pete Buttigieg took his answer in an unexpected direction: He turned the question into a matter of faith.Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, accused Republicans who claim to support Christian values of hypocrisy for backing policies separating children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. The GOP, he declared, "has lost all claim to ever use religious lan
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Are former Jazzmen Clark, Wallace free agent options?

  08-07-2019 15:29 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz still have spots to fill on their roster despite a busy opening week of free agency. Former Jazzmen Ian Clark and Tyrone Wallace may fit the ...
  
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• Political Cornflakes: President Trump call out a familiar foe — the ‘fake news’ media. But this time it includes Fox News.

  08-07-2019 15:16
  Happy Monday!President Donald Trump spent time this weekend Twitter ranting against his favorite target — the U.S. news media. But there was a different twist to his diatribe this time because it was aimed at Fox News. In particular, Trump attacked the weekend news anchors, like Chris Wallace, who — unlike Trump fanboy Sean Hannity — makes an attempt at balance. [Politico]Topping the news: Climate change could help Utah secure another Winter Olympics in the future because scien
  
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• Democratic group unleashes ad blitz against Reyes and other GOP attorneys general fighting to topple Obamacare

  08-07-2019 15:15
  The Democratic Attorneys General Association is rolling out an ad blitz that takes aim at Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes for supporting a lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act.The six-figure ad campaign will also target Republican attorneys general in Louisiana, Missouri, Indiana and West Virginia, all who have joined in the anti-Obamacare effort.“The health care debate is often limited to what is happening in Congress when the real action is happening at the state AG level in and out
  
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• Utah Jazz: Are former Jazzmen Clark, Wallace free agent options?

  08-07-2019 15:00
  The Utah Jazz still have spots to fill on their roster despite a busy opening week of free agency. Former Jazzmen Ian Clark and Tyrone Wallace may fit the bill. I don’t know whether it’s simply due to familiarity or if there’s a nostalgia factor in play, but it seems as though whenever the Utah […]
  Utah Jazz: Are former Jazzmen Clark, Wallace free agent options? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Once dubbed ‘whipped pups,’ Blue Dog Democrats like Ben McAdams are a force in this Congress

  08-07-2019 14:00
  Washington • Years ago, newspapers were essentially writing obituaries about the Blue Dog Coalition, a once formidable voting bloc of centrist Democrats that had been reduced, as one headline put it, to “whipped pups.”The 2010 election trimmed the coalition from 54 seats to 25. Two years later, 14 were left in the House.Now, they’re back.With 27 members, the group remains a shadow of its former self, but since Democrats have a slim 18-seat majority margin, it matters.So fa
  
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• Ogden bought an old building from a prominent local business. Inside was a mind-boggling stockpile of hazardous waste.

  08-07-2019 14:00
  The following story was written by Leia Larsen for The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune.Ogden • Last year, when artist Collin Noortmann Chandler learned Ogden had purchased the old Swift meatpacking plant, with plans to demolish it, he wanted in.Rising above the banks of the Weber River with “Swift” painted in red and white on its east-facing wall, the massive industrial building is one of the first things visitors see as they ente
  
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• Letter: When fascism comes to America

  08-07-2019 14:00
  According to Salt Lake City Catholic Bishop Oscar J. Solis, “We need to unify religion and patriotism.”Really?“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” — Sinclair LewisEnough said.Jack Mark, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Trump consorts with his dictator friends

  08-07-2019 14:00
  Current squawking among President Trump’s circle, and among allegedly “conservative” right-wing rah-rah types over what they decry as “socialism” among Democrats, may be baseless and flatly ignorant.Since the days of the John Birch Society, there has been a scale “progressing” from libertarian corporate-dominance, to “capitalism,” to socialism, and ultimately to communism and the autocratic dictatorship condition that accompanies communism.Tr
  
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• Letter: The choice to vaccinate is not so simple

  08-07-2019 14:00
  Progress throughout history has brought discoveries that have benefited mankind. There are usually unintended consequences that follow.The Industrial Revolution and hydrocarbon-based industry produced a standard of living unknown to our ancestors. We also manifested pollution of our air, water and food and accelerated global warming. The discovery of antibiotics has saved millions of lives. It has also brought antibiotic-resistant superbugs and a damaged gut flora.There are no drugs without side
  
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• Letter: Respect snakes you encounter in the wild

  08-07-2019 14:00
  It’s summer in Utah once again, and the snakes are out. If you see one in your travels, remember that snakes are not aggressive creatures that want to harm humans. They are reclusive bordering on shy and are non-confrontational until we provoke them. What people mistake as aggression is merely a snake defending itself.If you see a snake, leave it alone! Too often, someone wants to poke a snake with a stick or do something equally stupid to provoke it, and that's when bites occur.If you see
  
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• Gehrke: This Utah nonprofit helps homeless people by helping their pets

  08-07-2019 14:00
  Thirteen years ago, Carter Davis picked out a pit bull puppy and named her Miko. They have been together ever since — and that includes living on the streets since January.You’ve probably seen tandems like them, homeless men and women who rely on their pet for unconditional companionship and, in some cases, protection. By some estimates as many as 10 percent of the nearly 3,000 homeless people in Utah are caring for a pet.They develop a special bond, Davis said.“I wouldn't ever
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - The New-Look NBA Title Contender You Won't Find in Los Angeles

  08-07-2019 13:35 via sportspyder.com
  On July 4, 2017, while plenty of NBA fans were enjoying barbecues and family time, Utah Jazz faithful took an offseason gut punch. "Free-agent Gordon Hayward plans to sign with the Boston Celtics," Chris Haynes tweeted that day...
  
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• U.S men fail to follow women, lose Gold Cup final to Mexico 1-0

  08-07-2019 07:06
  Chicago • U.S. men failed to follow the example of American women, showing just how far they are from success.Jonathan Dos Santos scored in the 73rd minute, and Mexico beat the United States 1-0 Sunday night to win its record eighth title in the CONCACAF Gold Cup.Despite missing their top three forwards, El Tri dominated possession against an American team playing its first tournament under new coach Gregg Berhalter.Christian Pulisic, the Americans’ 20-year-old star midfielder, was by
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz lose to Heat, but Miye Oni gets chance against NBA-level competition

  08-07-2019 06:36
  Las Vegas • Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 93-81 loss to the Miami Heat from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Miye Oni gets a chance against Tyler HerroFor the first time, the Jazz got the chance to play against a lottery pick in this summer league: No. 13 pick Tyler Herro. And against presumably NBA competition, the Jazz’s Miye Oni did relatively well in his own right.Herro finished with 16 points on 7-18 FG, adding five assists and six rebounds. Oni had only 11
  
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• [KSL] - 'He's been a true professional:' Jazz send Derrick Favors to New Orleans Pelicans, but not easily | KSL.com

  08-07-2019 06:06 via sportspyder.com
  “Derrick has represented the Utah Jazz organization and the Miller family with class, hard work and exceptional talent for nearly 10 years,” Jazz owner Gail Mailler said.
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Bojan Bogdanovic: 'I'm really happy to be on this side'

  08-07-2019 05:47 via sportspyder.com
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Veteran big man Willie Reed knows helping his young Jazz teammates will help him, too

  08-07-2019 05:47 via sportspyder.com
  Las Vegas • Willie Reed is 29 years old. He’s appeared in 152 NBA games in his career. And because he’s hoping to add to that total, he’s playing for the Utah Jazz’s summer league team.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Triple Team: Jazz lose to Heat, but Miye Oni gets chance against NBA-level competition

  08-07-2019 05:47 via sportspyder.com
  LAS VEGAS — Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 93-81 loss to the Miami Heat from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• Veteran big man Willie Reed knows helping his young Jazz teammates will help him, too

  08-07-2019 05:33
  Las Vegas • Willie Reed is 29 years old. He’s appeared in 152 NBA games in his career. And because he’s hoping to add to that total, he’s playing for the Utah Jazz’s summer league team.Reed has been around enough to know the situation he’s in. The 6-foot-10, 220-pound center knows the Jazz are well-set at his position with two-time Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert and free-agent addition Ed Davis. He knows his summer league teammate, Tony Bradley, as a
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz guard Dante Exum aims to be injury-free, ‘stay on the court’ for 2019-20 season

  08-07-2019 04:21 via sportspyder.com
  Dante Exum has been through a lot of injuries in his first five seasons in the league, but the Utah Jazz guard is still optimistic that he will eventually find his mark in the NBA. Exum told Eric Woodyard of the Deseret News that he is very eager to...
  
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• Mavericks get former Utah Ute Delon Wright from Grizzlies in sign-and-trade

  08-07-2019 04:08
  Dallas • A person with direct knowledge of the deal says the Dallas Mavericks have acquired guard Delon Wright from the Memphis Grizzlies in a sign-and-trade agreement that could make the restricted free agent a starter alongside rookie of the year Luka Doncic.Wright and the Mavericks have agreed on a $29 million, three-year contract, agent Greg Lawrence said Sunday. The Grizzlies will get two second-round picks in the trade, the person told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity be
  
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