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• Another Utahn dies of COVID-19 as Davis Hospital says its first patient with the virus is now recovering at home

  11-04-2020 23:57
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Another Utahn has died from the coronavirus, the Utah Department of Health announced on Saturday.The fatality brings the state’s death toll to 18, after four deaths were added to the count on Friday. The patient was a Wasatch
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Duke big man Vernon Carey Jr. declares for NBA Draft

  11-04-2020 23:14 via sportspyder.com
  
  Duke big man Vernon Carey Jr. declared for the NBA Draft. Carey averaged 17.8 points on 57 percent shooting and pulled down 8.8 rebounds a game.
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Weaver, McCollum, Daniels, Jazz

  11-04-2020 23:06 via sportspyder.com
  
  Thunder VP of basketball operations Troy Weaver turned down a second interview in Chicago's search for a new head of basketball operations because …
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Let local officials make public health decisions

  11-04-2020 23:00
  
  Many in Utah’s political class will tell you that they share a belief that the units of government closest to the people — the elected officials most familiar with local needs and priorities — should be the ones making important decisions.Many in Utah’s political class are not being altogether straight with you.Talk from some leaders of the Utah Legislature about denying local governments the power to issue mandatory stay-at-home orders in their jurisdictions proves that
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Which 15 players belong when constructing the ultimate Utah Jazz roster? Here’s our best shot at it.

  11-04-2020 22:29 via sportspyder.com
  
  There have been 301 players who have ever played at least one game for the Utah/New Orleans Jazz franchise.
  
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• Which 15 players belong when constructing the ultimate Utah Jazz roster? Here’s our best shot at it.

  11-04-2020 22:17
  
  There have been 301 players who have ever played at least one game for the Utah/New Orleans Jazz franchise.If you were constructing a 15-man roster from among them, who would warrant a spot, though? I’m not talking anything so pedestrian as the best 15 players in team history — anyone can do that, considering it would take precious little creativity and would likely yield even less variety.No, let’s keep it at least quasi-realistic. I’m not talking about rolling out a ros
  
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• Former Utah State guard Abel Porter commits to Ohio State

  11-04-2020 21:37
  
  Abel Porter knew the 2019-20 season would be his last at Utah State. What was unclear, however, was whether he’d hang up his basketball shoes or try his luck somewhere else for his final year of college eligibility.Porter answered the question Saturday when he announced on Twitter that he had committed to Ohio State.I’ve officially committed to play basketball at The Ohio State University 🔴🔴 #BuckeyeNation pic.twitter.com/t1yyo8YsZa— Abel Porter (@Ah_bell) April
  
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• [The Big Lead] - If Forced to Choose, the Jazz Have to Keep Donovan Mitchell Over Rudy Gobert

  11-04-2020 21:29 via sportspyder.com
  
  Will the Jazz have to choose between their two stars?
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Iowa All-America center Luka Garza will test NBA Draft waters, retain eligibility

  11-04-2020 21:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  Luka Garza was an All-American and Mr. Everything for the Iowa Hawkeyes this season, and now he will test the NBA Draft waters.
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 11: Another Utahn has died from COVID-19; state now has 2,206 confirmed cases of the virus

  11-04-2020 20:25
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, April 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----12:15 p.m.: Another Utahn has died from COVID-19; state now has 2,206
  
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• Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare to send two large COVID-19 response teams to New York

  11-04-2020 20:22
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare announced Saturday it would send two COVID-19 response teams to help at New York hospitals experiencing severe staffing shortages due to the pandemic.The two 50-member teams of volunteers will be
  
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• [NBC Sports] - On one month anniversary of NBA shutdown we know little more than we did then

  11-04-2020 20:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  It was one month ago today that the NBA season was suspended because Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. We know little more now.
  
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• How two women made history at BYU by ballroom dancing together

  11-04-2020 20:00
  
  Provo • Before walking out onto the ballroom floor together, Ayane Matsuda tugged at the oversized tuxedo jacket she had borrowed backstage while her partner, Yume Honda, checked that each of the rhinestones on her handmade gown were still in place.The two women were nervous. They had never competed before as a pair. And now they were trying it for the first time at the national ballroom championships held at Brigham Young University, which had just lifted its longtime ban on same-sex coupl
  
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• Commentary: Coronavirus response is how we should be facing climate change

  11-04-2020 20:00
  
  We live in frightening times. Shelves stand barren in grocery stores, whilst an invisible enemy threatens our lives and the lives of our loved ones. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic is not the only catastrophe affecting Utah right now.We are 11 students from the University of Utah’s Honors College studying the climate changes that Utah is experiencing. Our class met with the Kem Gardner Institute’s director, researched climate displacement and worked to assist the university’s ongoin
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 11: Intermountain Healthcare will send two large COVID-19 response teams to New York.

  11-04-2020 19:52
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, April 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----10:10 a.m.: Intermountain Healthcare will send two 50-member COVID-19
  
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• Libertarians debate: How to respond to coronavirus pandemic?

  11-04-2020 19:09
  
  New York • Steve Baker, one of the British parliament’s leading libertarians, was nearly in tears as he addressed the House of Commons in support of a bill that once seemed unthinkable: a massive economic aid package in response to the coronavirus pandemic.“Libertarian though I may be, this is the right thing to do but, my goodness, we ought not to allow this situation to endure one moment longer than is absolutely necessary to save lives and preserve jobs," he said last month.
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Jazz's Donovan Mitchell Previews 2nd Signature Shoe with Adidas on NBA 2K20

  11-04-2020 18:55 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell offered a glimpse of his upcoming second signature shoe with Adidas on Saturday. Mitchell used NBA 2K20 to show off the D.O.N. Issue 2: The black-and-orange D...
  
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• [NBA] - Donovan Mitchell announces summer release for his DON Issue #2 sneakers

  11-04-2020 18:33 via sportspyder.com
  
  Donovan Mitchell is adding to his sneaker collection in a big way.Two years after debuting his signature shoe, the D.O.N. Issue #1, the Utah Jazz guard has revealed a new release set for some time
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 11: Intermountain Healthcare will send two large COVID-19 response teams to New New York.

  11-04-2020 18:21
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, April 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----10:10 a.m.: Intermountain Healthcare will send two 50-member COVID-19
  
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• [Fansided: Sir Charles In Charge] - If the season resumes, winning an NBA championship this year will be harder than ever

  11-04-2020 18:05 via sportspyder.com
  
  There is a cloud of uncertainty surrounding when, or if the 2019-2020 NBA season will conclude. With hopes of a champion being decided at some point this s...
  
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• UVU making 3D-printed masks for coronavirus first responders

  11-04-2020 17:47
  
  Provo • When first responders in Utah County needed protective masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Utah Valley University was one of the organizations that answered the call.Sid Smith is an associate professor in the Architecture and Engineering Design department at UVU. He has joined with BYU, the Nebo School District and others in providing masks for first responders using a 3D printer and a blueprint designed by Dusty Richardson, a doctor in Montana.“3D printing is part of our depa
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 11: Davis Hospital’s first COVID-19 patient released and now home recovering

  11-04-2020 17:44
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, April 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----9:30 a.m.: Davis Hospital releases its first COVID-19 patient, who is
  
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• You have more time to nominate your company for Utah’s Top Workplaces

  11-04-2020 17:05
  
  You may be working from home, missing your colleagues and worried about the future.But if your employer is helping you weather the storm and continue to be successful in this time of crisis — maybe it’s time to nominate your company for Utah’s Top Workplaces.The award honors small, medium and large companies and is given by The Salt Lake Tribune and its partner, Energage.The deadline to participate has been extended to June 1, according to Eric Rubino, CEO of the culture techno
  
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• Utah nursing home staffers stay with residents infected by coronavirus

  11-04-2020 17:04
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.When Cristina Agudo heard a resident of Pine Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing had tested positive for the coronavirus, she didn’t want to go back to work there.Then she remembered the patients.“I said, ‘You know w
  
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• Stan Holmes: Who would really benefit from coal country proposals?

  11-04-2020 17:00
  
  Utah coal country officials are moving forward with their portion of the inland port program: a rural satellite port.The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, based in Price, has issued a request for proposal for consultants who would study the feasibility of a “distributed logistics” facility, preferably a transport terminal near Salina, in Sevier County. The move is clearly meant to advance SCIC’s fossil fuel exports agenda.But who really benefits?Some background: SCIC is fu
  
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• Gayle Ruzicka’s mentor and model, Phyllis Schlafly, is at the center of Hulu’s ‘Mrs. America’

  11-04-2020 17:00
  
  There’s never going to be a television series centered on Utah Eagle Forum leader Gayle Ruzicka. Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett is never going to play Ruzicka. But there is a TV series about the woman who inspired Ruzicka, the much-admired/much-reviled conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly.And Blanchett — winner of two Academy Awards — is playing Schlafly.
  (Leah Hogsten|Tribune file photo) Utah Eagle Forum president Gayle Ruzicka, left, listens as Nicole Chaves speaks in favor of Rep
  
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• Salt Lake County Democrats poised to nominate candidates — a struggle during coronavirus

  11-04-2020 16:57
  
  It promises to be a convention like none before it.An estimated 1,100 Salt Lake County Democratic delegates on Saturday will participate — from the comfort of their own homes — in Utah’s first major virtual political convention of this election year during the coronavirus outbreak.There will be none of the usual fanfare and hobnobbing of a party nominating convention. Instead, candidates in seven contested races were asked to post 5-minute videos on the party website and delega
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - The HoopsHype Weekly: Behind-the-scenes issues between Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell persist

  11-04-2020 15:05 via sportspyder.com
  
  You can get this content every Saturday morning in your email inbox. Click here to subscribe to the HoopsHype Weekly newsletter. STILL HEATED: Sometimes, space and time apart can help mend semi-bro…
  
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• DABC takes away Bar George’s liquor license, a move that may cost Utah restaurateur millions

  11-04-2020 15:00
  
  In his 11 years as a restaurant and bar owner, Scott Evans has dealt with dozens of issues involving liquor — from license applications and transfers to special event permits.But a liquor question arose with one of his Salt Lake City businesses in February, one that even Evans wasn’t sure how to navigate. He contacted his compliance officer at the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for guidance.Asking for that help, Evans believes, cost him the bar and restaurant license,
  
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• The HoopsHype Weekly: Behind-the-scenes issues between Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell persist

  11-04-2020 14:43
  
  You can get this content every Saturday morning in your email inbox. Click here to subscribe to the HoopsHype Weekly newsletter.
  STILL HEATED: Sometimes, space and time apart can help mend semi-broken relationships. However, that certainly does not appear to be the case with Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, as apparently, the relationship does not seem to be salvageable after the whole coronavirus-related drama the duo went through a month ago.
  Here’s the full report,
  
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• Wasatch Front residents are getting outside, but trail options are few and crowded

  11-04-2020 14:00
  
  As warm weather returns, northern Utahns are surging into the outdoors amid an incredibly stressful time, but options for destinations and activities along the Wasatch Front have narrowed considerably due to limits from the coronavirus.Resort skiing, organized youth sports, the San Rafael Swell, Summit County trails, foot and bike races and state parks are largely off-limits to Salt Lake County’s 1 million-plus residents. What to do? Go for a hike, of course, but now Utah’s urban res
  
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• Utah Symphony musicians, home to avoid the coronavirus, offer you hopeful Beethoven by video

  11-04-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Though separated physically by self-isolation, members of the Utah Symphony have come together through technology to make music during the coronavirus pandemic.A video by Musicians of the Utah Symphony, posted Monday on YouTube, fe
  
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• Rick B. Larsen and Patrice Onwuka: Youth mental health hangs in balance. Philanthropy can help.

  11-04-2020 14:00
  
  American is facing unprecedented challenges. In just a few weeks, COVID-19 has changed nearly every facet of American life. Even as we hopefully look to the time when social distancing and shelter-in-place orders are over, our country – and our state – will not return to the same normal.As hundreds of thousands of Utah’s youth enter week three of these restrictive measures and social isolation, we should be particularly wary of the impact of this new reality on their mental hea
  
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• Letter: We need nationwide vote-by-mail

  11-04-2020 14:00
  
  The recent 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Wisconsin primary had the unfortunate consequence that thousands of voters who had timely requested absentee ballots, but had not yet received them by Election Day, had a choice of not having their votes counted or violating a state stay-at-home order and risking their health (and potentially their lives) by going to vote in person.The current pandemic highlights the need in the upcoming presidential election to give everyone the option of voting
  
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• Letter: Stay home or you put others in danger

  11-04-2020 14:00
  
  We are in a pandemic. How many of you seriously realize that?I just drove by the Big Cottonwood Park in Holladay. It is located on Murray-Holladay Road, across the street from the Mt. Olympus Senior Center (which, of course, is closed).There were more than 18 cars parked there at the park. Which meant there were probably dozens of people milling around and coming in close contact with others.So far, Utah has had, at last count, more than 2,000 coronavirus cases and 17 deaths.If people (mostly yo
  
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• Letter: It’s time for a universal health care system

  11-04-2020 14:00
  
  It looks like the USA’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will be among the slowest in the world. Much of the blame is being placed — justifiably so, in my view — on the slow response from the Trump administration.Before it was a real pandemic, it was fake news, a Democratic Party conspiracy theory, caused by the impeachment trial, etc.That said, I believe that our poor response is also, in large part, a result of our capitalistic health care system. Capitalism’s goal i
  
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• Letter: Ignorance and denial have hurt us all

  11-04-2020 14:00
  
  Our self-proclaimed “stable genius” asserted that climate change was a Chinese hoax, removed our country from the Paris Climate Accord and continues to eviscerate EPA guidelines increasing risk for our clean water and air standards.His ignorance and denial of basic science led to his embarrassing belief the COVID-19 pandemic was a Democratic hoax, and his slow and poorly managed response likely led to needless additional citizens deaths while we still struggle to produce enough prote
  
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• Letter: Herbert will have blood on his hands

  11-04-2020 14:00
  
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert remains one of only eight state governors who has refused to issue a stay-at-home order or to close nonessential businesses in response to the coronavirus pandemic.These orders don’t work well unless they are nationwide. Viruses don’t recognize state borders. And no Zion Curtain is going to save residents of Utah. Even the LDS Church has had the good sense to tell members to stay at home and not attend services.Two days ago, a former next-door neighbor with who
  
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• Letter: An orgy of destruction

  11-04-2020 14:00
  
  Am I sounding like a nasty, hateful liberal? I'm sorry. My country is being torn down and the entire GOP is in love with the orgy of destruction.My father was in a shooting war to defend our democratic institutions from foreign thugs. Now, they're being dismantled by one of our own. A country that was born from the Enlightenment has been given over to a presidency in which "climate change" is being purged out of government agencies that should be preparing instead of denying.You think your scien
  
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• ‘I signed up for this’ — Utah nursing home staffers stay with residents infected by coronavirus

  11-04-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.When Cristina Agudo heard a resident of Pine Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing had tested positive for the coronavirus, she didn’t want to go back to work there.Then she remembered the patients.“I said, ‘You know w
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, April 10: Utah Gov. Gary Herbert extends ‘Stay Safe, Stay Home’ directive; Dinosaur National Monument closed to all visitors

  11-04-2020 04:51
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Friday, April 10. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----8:50 p.m.: Dinosaur National Monument closed to visitorsDinosaur Nation
  
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• Holly Richardson: Fostering resilience during a time of isolation

  11-04-2020 04:00
  
  Tap, tap, tap. Is this thing on?How are you doing? Like really? How’s the homeschooling going? How’s the everyone-is-home-all-day-everyday thing going? Do you have seniors missing graduation? Grandbabies missing hugs from grandma? It’s hard. I have a daughter who turns 16 on Sunday and to say she’s disappointed in the lack of festivities (read: hanging out with friends) would be an understatement.If we had forgotten how rapidly life can change, well, a little virus has do
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, April 10: Utah Gov. Gary Herbert extends ‘Stay Safe, Stay Home’ directive; Salt Lake City mayor issues 7th emergency proclamation

  11-04-2020 03:09
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Friday, April 10. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----7:08 p.m.: Gov. Gary Herbert extends “Stay Safe, Stay Home”
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert's relationship on thin ice due to coronavirus situation, report says - CBSSports.com

  11-04-2020 03:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  Gobert and Mitchell were the first two players in the league to test positive for the coronavirus
  
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• [Deseret News] - Analysis: Wrapping up the hypothetical playoff series between the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder (+prediction)

  11-04-2020 03:07 via sportspyder.com
  
  Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series: What would a playoff series between the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder look like? SALT LAKE CITY — If the NBA season is over but the...
  
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• Analysis: Wrapping up the hypothetical playoff series between the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder (+prediction)

  11-04-2020 02:59
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) is boxed in by Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort (5) and forward Darius Bazley (7) during the first half of a NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019.   | Colter Peterson, Deseret News Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series: What would a playoff series between the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder look like?
  SALT LAKE CITY — If the NBA season is over but the pl
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Coronavirus: Relationship between Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert 'doesn't appear salvageable,' per report - CBSSports.com

  11-04-2020 02:32 via sportspyder.com
  
  Gobert and Mitchell were the first two players in the league to test positive for the coronavirus
  
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• Easter Bunny visits homebound families in Draper

  11-04-2020 02:24
  
  Some families in Draper got a special social-distance visit from the Easter Bunny on Friday. Draper city staff, police and firefighters delivered roughly 30,000 plastic eggs to residents who opted in for the alternative to a typical Easter egg hunt.
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, April 10: Utah makes exceptions to first-in-the-nation program tracking people who enter the state; Salt Lake City mayor issues 7th emergency proclamation

  11-04-2020 02:17
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Friday, April 10. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----6:15 p.m.: SLC mayor issues seventh emergency proclamation for the city
  
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• Sim Gill: Public safety during the coronavirus pandemic

  11-04-2020 02:00
  
  Crime takes no holidays, not in war, nor with natural disasters, or pandemics. This does not mean that in times of crisis our reason need take flight; rather, more than ever as we address the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic presents us, we must remain be thoughtful, compassionate and balanced in our responses.With almost 1.5 million cases worldwide — and over 400,000 in the United States alone — these are unprecedented times, the challenges from which are palpable and real. One chal
  
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