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• Search is on for those who came into contact with Utah coronavirus victim; officials say ‘community spread’ is likely

  07-03-2020 23:59
  
  A day after officials learned that a Utahn tested positive for the coronavirus, they’re investigating everyone they can find who came in contact with that person.“We're in the middle of that right now,” Dave Spence, deputy director of the Davis County Health Department, said on Saturday afternoon. “We're trying to determine where that person was, who they were with and what kind of contact they had.”The identity of the patient has not been released; the only informa
  
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• RSL’s set pieces come alive in home-opening draw against Red Bulls

  07-03-2020 23:48
  
  Sandy • Real Salt Lake may have found something in its set pieces.They may not have gotten any goals out of them in the 1-1 draw to the New York Red Bulls in Saturday’s home opener at Rio Tinto Stadium. But Real had a plethora of opportunities right in front of the goal — sometimes inches away — that all came from either corner kicks or other types of dead-ball situations.RSL secured the draw in stoppage time with Damir Kreilach’s header off Aaron Herrera’s pin
  
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• [Sports Keeda] - Boston Celtics Injury Update: Gordon Hayward upgraded to probable, Jaylen Brown out versus Oklahoma City Thunder

  07-03-2020 23:31 via sportspyder.com
  
  Gordon Hayward is expected to return against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Conley Shows Out, Scores 25 In Controlling Victory Over Celtics

  07-03-2020 23:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  Conleys shooting and fit struggles in the first quarter of the 2019-2020 season may have unfairly clouded the tremendous positives Conley has brought to the Jazz as of late.
  
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• Tribune Editorial: State still blind to the real cost of homeless services

  07-03-2020 23:00
  
  Far too many of the people who should be paying for the new model of services to the homeless in Utah are less concerned with ameliorating the problem than they are in avoiding the blame.The blame for a failure that is inevitable if the state isn’t willing to come up with a lot more money.It began in 2017 with a $67 million effort tagged Operation Rio Grande. As the military-style code name suggests, the approach was largely an armed invasion of the neighborhood around the old Road Home ho
  
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• Utah basketball team upends Colorado 74-72 in OT as Both Gach scores career-high 28 points

  07-03-2020 22:43
  
  Both Gach picked a good time for his best game in two months.The sophomore guard hit three free throws with 0.6 seconds to play in overtime, delivering a 74-72 win over Colorado in which he was outstanding for the majority of his 42 minutes.Gach finished with a career-high 28 points on 9-for-15 shooting, five rebounds and four assists, while Alfonso Plummer had 21 in his first career start.The win, which bolsters its NIT hopes, locks Utah in as the No. 9 seed for the Pac-12 Tournament, which beg
  
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• Both Gach’s career-high 28 points leads Utah to 74-72 OT basketball win over Colorado in home finale

  07-03-2020 22:42
  
  Both Gach picked a good time for his best game in two months. The sophomore guard hit three free throws with 0.6 seconds to play in overtime, delivering a 74-72 win over Colorado in which he was outstanding for the majority of his 42 minutes. Gach finished with a career-high 28 points on 9-for-15 shooting, five rebounds and four assists, while Alfonso Plummer had 21 in his first career start. The win, which bolsters its NIT hopes, locks Utah in as the No. 9 seed for the Pac-12 Tournament, which
  
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• ‘It’s scary’: Virus slams women’s hockey worlds in Canada

  07-03-2020 22:20
  
  The women’s world hockey championships in Canada were canceled Saturday because of public health concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus.The two-week tournament was set to open March 31, with venues in Halifax and Truro, Nova Scotia.René Fasel, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, said in a statement there has been "not enough of an improvement to the coronavirus situation to allow us to safely host a 10-team international tournament within this time frame."
  
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• RSL draws 1-1 with New York Red Bulls in home opener

  07-03-2020 22:06
  
  Sandy • Real Salt Lake may have found something in its set pieces.They may not have gotten any goals out of them in the 1-1 draw to the New York Red Bulls in Saturday’s home opener at Rio Tinto Stadium. But Real had a a plethora of opportunities right in front of the goal — sometimes inches away — that all came from either corner kicks or other types of dead-ball situations.RSL secured the draw in stoppage time with Damir Kreilach’s header off Aaron Herrera’s p
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Breathe easy, Utah Jazz fans: Mike Conley can (maybe) still play

  07-03-2020 20:56 via sportspyder.com
  
  This season, to say that Mike Conley has been a disappointment for Utah Jazz fans would be an understatement. On Friday night, however, against the Boston ...
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - NBA Daily: Elite Scorers Redefining What’s Possible

  07-03-2020 20:53 via sportspyder.com
  
  Norms are hard to challenge everywhere. That's especially true in the NBA. Drew Maresca examines the new normal for NBA scoring leaders, which includes playing at a faster pace and leveraging deeper three-pointers.
  
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• Breathe easy, Utah Jazz fans: Mike Conley can (maybe) still play

  07-03-2020 20:50
  
  This season, to say that Mike Conley has been a disappointment for Utah Jazz fans would be an understatement. On Friday night, however, against the Boston Celtics, Conley proved that he still has something meaningful to offer — fingers crossed. Mike Conley is one cool-looking cat out on the basketball court. Tattoos? Check. Shooting sleeve? […]
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Intensity will be key to fifth straight victory

  07-03-2020 20:33 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz will face the Detroit Pistons this evening with a great opportunity to build off of last night's victory in Boston. Here are the keys to a vi...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Intensity will be key to fifth straight victory

  07-03-2020 20:26
  
  The Utah Jazz will face the Detroit Pistons this evening with a great opportunity to build off of last night’s victory in Boston. Here are the keys to a victory. In case you missed it last night, the Utah Jazz beat the Boston Celtics to make it three straight wins in the TD Garden itself. […]
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• [CBS Sports] - Jazz vs. Pistons odds, line, spread: 2020 NBA picks, March 7 predictions from advanced computer model - CBSSports.com

  07-03-2020 20:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  The SportsLine projection model has a pick for the clash between the Jazz and Pistons. Here are the results:
  
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• Jennifer Finney Boylan: Bernie angry! Bernie smash!

  07-03-2020 20:00
  
  I stood before a mailbox in Manhattan, holding my absentee ballot for the Maine primary. Bernie angry, I thought happily. Bernie smash.And I wasn’t even voting for him.No, my vote had gone to Elizabeth Warren, who from the beginning of the campaign had impressed me with her optimism. Watching Warren, I got the sense that even the long slog of a presidential run could be done with good humor and exuberance.There was a time when optimism was considered a desirable trait in politicians: Barac
  
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• Longtime UTA chief John Pingree dies at 80

  07-03-2020 19:25
  
  John Pingree, who led the Utah Transit Authority for nearly 20 years, has died at the age of 80.According to his obituary, John Cannon Pingre died “peacefully at home … surrounded by family … after a 17-year fight with cancer.”When the Salt Lake native, a graduate of West High and the University of Utah, was named general manager of UTA in 1977, it was operating in just three counties — Salt Lake, Davis and Weber. By the time he was forced out in 1997, UTA had exp
  
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• Utah foster care system faces shortage of parents statewide

  07-03-2020 19:04
  
  Provo • Spanish Fork couple Rachelle and Davido Hyer had fostered young children in the past, along with having six biological children, when they decided to look into fostering again.“My wife said, ‘Hey, they have two teens.’ And I was like, ‘Whoa, are you crazy?,” Davido Hyer said.But a short time later, in July 2018, they welcomed teenage sisters Madylynn and Hallie Kelsey into their home, and after several months, the girls officially became part of their f
  
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• Homeless at ‘double risk’ of getting, spreading coronavirus

  07-03-2020 18:56
  
  Salem, Ore. • They often don’t have places to wash their hands, struggle with health problems and crowd together in grimy camps.That’s what makes homeless people particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. Almost 200,000 people live in those conditions in the United States, according to a White House report, with Washington state, California and Oregon among the states most affected by homelessness as income inequality grows and housing costs rise.And — in a possible recip
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Andy Larsen: Steph Curry isn’t coming back for any reason other than for everyone to have more fun

  07-03-2020 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  
  Not since Tim Duncan has there been a more appropriate basketball name than Steph Curry. Why? S. Curry scurries.
  
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• Andy Larsen: Steph Curry isn’t coming back for any reason other than for everyone to have more fun

  07-03-2020 18:30
  
  Not since Tim Duncan has there been a more appropriate basketball name than Steph Curry. Why? S. Curry scurries.It honestly sometimes seems like he has a special relationship with the ground, more like a water skeeter effortlessly moving its legs at hyperspeed to stay atop the surface of a pond than a human on a basketball court. He quickly, constantly, and cleverly moves throughout whole possessions, bending the defense until he gets a good shot or someone on his team does. He’s not just
  
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• Gordon Monson: Yoeli Childs is chasing his basketball dream, and helping lead the BYU Cougars to new heights in the process

  07-03-2020 17:44
  
  ProvoThere’s nothing particularly weird or extraordinary about the dream Yoeli Childs had when he was a kid playing ball in the third grade. It’s the dream a lot of kids have. In his case, though, it’s a dream that’s persisted, that has dominated pretty much his entire existence, every breath of every moment, one that has done nothing but intensify over the past decade, and one that, in his mind, answers the primary question a lot of people have for and about the BYU seni
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Watch Pistons vs. Jazz: How to live stream, TV channel, start time for Saturday's NBA game - CBSSports.com

  07-03-2020 17:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  How to watch Pistons vs. Jazz basketball game
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Trump’s calamitous coronavirus response

  07-03-2020 17:12
  
  Last month, after analyzing figures on epidemics since 1960, The Economist concluded that people die at a higher rate from such disease outbreaks in authoritarian countries than in democratic ones, even controlling for income levels.This might seem counterintuitive. Autocratic societies have an easier time imposing strict behavioral limits than democratic ones; it’s hard to imagine Italy locking down Milan the way China closed off Wuhan. Without the messy deliberations of democracy, certai
  
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• Scott Williams: The Democrats should stop, look and listen

  07-03-2020 17:00
  
  Bernie Sanders is the Democrats’ Donald Trump.No, the two men do not share the same character nor temperament. However, like Trump, Sanders’ rise is a symptom of a deep seated anger and frustration within the American body politic.With the decisive affirmation of Joe Biden by a critical pillar of the Democratic base, African American voters, and a coalescing of the other candidates around the former vice president, it is critical for the Democrats to witness the sentiments of Bernie&
  
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• With coronavirus test kits in short supply, health officials sound alarms

  07-03-2020 16:13
  
  President Donald Trump claimed again Friday that anyone who needed a coronavirus test “gets a test.” But from Washington state to Florida to New York, doctors and patients are clamoring for tests that they say are in woefully short supply, and their frustration is mounting alongside the growing number of cases around the country.In California, where thousands are being monitored for the virus, only 516 tests had been conducted by the state as of Thursday. Washington health officials
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Mike Conley is in top form at the right time for the Utah Jazz

  07-03-2020 16:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  Mike Conley is in the midst of his best stretch as a member of the Utah Jazz, and it comes at a time when the team desperately needs his production. When t...
  
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• Patience is finally paying off for Mike Conley and surging Utah Jazz

  07-03-2020 16:06
  
  Boston • It’s not been lost on anyone that Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley has been playing his best ball of the season recently.He had 17 points and six assists vs. the Knicks on Wednesday; 15 points and six dimes Monday in Cleveland; 16 points, six assists, and five rebounds last week vs. the Wizards. back on Feb. 26 against Boston, the point guard racked up 15 points, three assists, and four rebounds.“What in this specific case do you see that makes you think his pick up in
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Conley, Jazz pull off upset in Boston against the Celtics

  07-03-2020 16:01 via sportspyder.com
  
  Conley is hitting his stride, having found his niche
  
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• Mike Conley is in top form at the right time for the Utah Jazz

  07-03-2020 16:00
  
  Mike Conley is in the midst of his best stretch as a member of the Utah Jazz, and it comes at a time when the team desperately needs his production. When the Utah Jazz traded for Mike Conley during the off-season, most people thought that they would be getting the third star that they craved. […]
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• The Triple Team: Utah Jazz get terrific performance from Mike Conley, rediscover defensive ability in important win vs. Boston

  07-03-2020 15:50
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 99-94 win over the Boston Celtics from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Mike Conley saves the Jazz offense nearly singlehandedlyThis was Memphis Mike Conley.Maybe it was because old Memphis assistant GM John Hollinger was in attendance, or maybe this was the culmination of Conley’s recovery process from his hamstring injury. Whatever the reason, Conley was utterly terrific in the Jazz’s win against the Celtics.It came in every
  
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• LDS Church discloses the $37.8 billion stock portfolio of its biggest investment fund

  07-03-2020 15:37
  
  For the first time, the LDS Church’s biggest investment fund has disclosed its Wall Street holdings, revealing $37.8 billion in stocks and mutual funds.The federal filing may be the best answer ever to how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has invested the excess tithing paid by its 16 million members. The detailed list included 1,659 stocks and mutual funds, including household names like Amazon, Chevron and Walmart, that the fund held for the quarter ending Dec. 31.The inve
  
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• Utah State earns spot in final opposite SDSU after outlasting Wyoming 89-82 in Mountain West semifinals

  07-03-2020 15:33
  
  Las Vegas • It’s the rivalries within the rivalries that will make Saturday’s Mountain West Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Championship final between Utah State and San Diego State so riveting.The game many Aggies fans have been salivating over for the last week took shape Friday night when both teams lived up to their seeds. Utah State ended No. 11 Wyoming’s Cinderella run — the team that won just two MWC regular-season games shocked its first two tour
  
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• Collection agencies would get special treatment under revised Utah bill

  07-03-2020 15:00
  
  A bill in the Utah Legislature this year started out as a plan to stop a high-interest lender that had found a way to jail some borrowers who default on loans and then seize their bail money.Proposed changes to that bill almost allowed the lender, and some others, to continue the practice — and instead aimed to prevent the state’s payday lenders from starting to do the same thing.Ironically, those payday lenders — often criticized for charging more than 500% annual interest &md
  
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• Behind the scenes of 9 straight days of alternating Utah Jazz games and concerts at Vivint Arena

  07-03-2020 15:00
  
  After returning from the NBA All-Star break, the Utah Jazz were faced with a busy-if-theoretically-advantageous schedule of five home games in an eight-day span.Which, it turns out, made the people who play in Vivint Smart Home Arena actually far less busy than the people who work in it.Including those Jazz games, the Viv hosted nine events in as many nights, almost all of which required a floor changeover — a busy streak unprecedented in the 24-year career of Jamie Galileo, senior vice pr
  
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• Salt Lake City’s Sampan restaurant is forced to close soon after nearly 30 years in business

  07-03-2020 14:00
  
  After operating Salt Lake City’s Sampan Asian Cuisine for nearly three decades, owners Peter and Mingmee Sum were ready to retire.The couple are in their early 60s and found a buyer for the business, at 695 S. 2100 South. They were getting ready to close the deal and the transfer the lease.At the last minute, though, the owner of the Plaza 7-21 strip mall made other plans.“We were told our lease has already been offered to another party,” the owners wrote on Facebook on March 4
  
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• Letter: We need to implement ranked choice voting

  07-03-2020 14:00
  
  Implementing Jefferson’s ideal of “consent of the governed” is an American story of continual improvement. Remember, women voting, secret ballots, even non-property-owning males voting were all once radical ideas.Tuesday’s Utah Democratic primary is an example of why Utah needs ranked choice voting (aka instant run-off voting), especially with early mail-in ballots.I mailed my ballot days before the official primary election day on Tuesday. Then the Sunday before the elec
  
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• Letter: The inland port will wreck our air

  07-03-2020 14:00
  
  It is too bad that the advancements in clean air that Gov. Herbert has championed, will be undone and even worsened by the development of an inland port that has no requirements to be environmentally sensitive. All inland ports cause excessive pollution due to significantly increased traffic of diesel powered trucks, additional trains and air cargo flights. None of the governor hopefuls even mentioned the inland port as a new source of air pollution that will come about under their watch.Richard
  
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• Letter: Let’s increase our education funding

  07-03-2020 14:00
  
  As a taxpayer, a parent and a PTA member, I am a strong advocate for having a strong, high-quality public education system. While I do believe that in Utah we have used our dollars really well, we have stretched them in ways that may not be sustainable for our future.Therefore, I wholeheartedly support a constant and robust increase to the WPU (weighted pupil unit, money that is dedicated to each kindergarten through 12th grade student in our state), and I would like to see us move away from the
  
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• Letter: Greg Hughes’ slapstick solution to air pollution

  07-03-2020 14:00
  
  Gubernatorial candidate Greg Hughes’ plan to clean up the air along the Wasatch Front reminds me of a bit by The Three Stooges. And it seems just as laughable. The friendly stooges are sauntering, blithely, arm-in-arm toward a doorway fit for half the threesome. When they hit the opening, all of them can’t squeeze through. They step back together in frustration, look at each other, hesitating to see who is going to go first, then step forward together again only to fall back once mor
  
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• Letter: Feed our children

  07-03-2020 14:00
  
  Our state senators want to deny children free breakfast at school. There are several reasons I can think of for objecting to their rationale. Children cannot control their environment and how their parents spend money. School districts should not have to take money from their already underfunded budget and the federal government is going to reimburse the state. By doing it through the state it would guarantee all our children get to eat. Lastly, it is the right thing to do.Cheri Groesbeck, Midva
  
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• Letter: Don’t send your sick kids to school

  07-03-2020 14:00
  
  To the parents of school-age children:Please keep your children at home when they are sick. Failing to do so puts other students and their teachers at risk.I make my living in the school system and cannot say how many times I have seen children, feverish and coughing, sent to school when they should have remained at home. Yesterday, I had a boy in class who was so feverish the lenses of his eyeglasses had moisture on them. He was coughing and sneezing the entire class period. When I inquired if
  
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• Commentary: The Utah Roadmap is right for Utah’s outdoor industry

  07-03-2020 14:00
  
  Utah is not only where we live and where we’ve chosen to raise our families, but also where we run successful businesses. With 23 million acres of public lands, five mighty national parks and 10 world-class ski resorts all within an hour of Salt Lake City and the “Greatest Snow On Earth,” there is no question why we’re here to stay.With this privilege also comes a responsibility to protect what makes Utah so special. Utah’s unhealthy air quality and changing climate
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Mike Conley says he has finally started to turn the corner after long slump

  07-03-2020 09:44 via sportspyder.com
  
  In the midst of perhaps the worst season of his NBA career, Mike Conley thinks that things are finally starting to look up. After dropping a near-season-high 25 points in a win over the Boston Celtics on Friday, the Utah Jazz guard sounded...
  
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• Utah State earns spot in final opposite SDSU after outlasting Wyoming 89-82 in Mountain West tourney quarterfinals

  07-03-2020 08:12
  
  Las Vegas • It’s the rivalries within the rivalries that will make Saturday’s Mountain West Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Championship final between Utah State and San Diego State so riveting.The game many Aggies fans have been salivating over for the last week took shape Friday night when both teams lived up to their seeds. Utah State ended No. 11 Wyoming’s Cinderella run — the team that won just two MWC regular-season games shocked its first two tour
  
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• [KSL] - Mike drop! Did Mike Conley finally silence the doubters in Jazz's win over the Celtics? | KSL.com

  07-03-2020 07:25 via sportspyder.com
  
  Mike Conley had 25 points and five assists as the Jazz beat Boston 99-94.
  
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• [Deseret News] - Mike Conley and Utah Jazz bench come up big in win over Boston Celtics

  07-03-2020 06:37 via sportspyder.com
  
  BOSTON — The Utah Jazz players know what people say. They hear it all. They’re on social media, they read the articles, they see the comments. So when Mike Conley went off for 25 points on 9 of 16...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Celtics’ Jayson Tatum reacts to his minutes restriction in loss to Jazz

  07-03-2020 06:30 via sportspyder.com
  
  Faced with a depleted roster that was notably missing stars Jaylen Brown and Gordon Hayward, you’d expect a heavy burden to be put on Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum to carry the load as the team matched up with the Utah Jazz on Friday. However,...
  
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Conley, Clarkson lead Jazz past Celtics for fourth straight win

  07-03-2020 06:19 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah's roller coaster of a season continued Friday night as the Jazz traveled to Boston and beat the Celtics 99-94 Friday night. Since January 25, the Jazz have (in order) won 19 of 21, lost
  
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• [ESPN] - Smart blasts Celtics' effort in loss to Jazz

  07-03-2020 06:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  Marcus Smart called the Celtics' effort 's---' after Boston dropped their third straight home game on Friday night.
  
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