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• Analysis: How the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets match up in their playoff series

  16-08-2020 23:59
  
  Point guard: Donovan Mitchell vs. Jamal MurrayWith Mike Conley missing the Jazz’s first few games due to the birth of his son, I expect the Jazz will slot Mitchell in as the point guard. Mitchell has said he wants to facilitate first, score second in this matchup, so it’s a role that fits his intentions. Meanwhile, the 23-year-old Murray brings solid averages of 18 points, five assists, and four rebounds per game.Advantage: UtahShooting guard: Jordan Clarkson vs. Torrey CraigJordan C
  
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• Ed Davis out for weeks

  16-08-2020 23:43
  
  Adrian Wojnarowski: More depth concerns for Utah: Jazz F Ed Davis will miss the first-round playoff series against Denver with a left knee MCL injury, sources tell ESPN. He’s expected to be re-evaluated in a few weeks, per sources.
  
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• Letter: Nothing inherently disrespectful about kneeling

  16-08-2020 23:30
  
  I'm aware some have taken great offense when athletes and others choose to kneel before the flag during the performance of our national anthem.Our nation's flag and anthem are sacred, so it's understandable people feel strongly about what behaviors are or are not undertaken during its performance. (Personally, I find it extremely irritating when people clap and cheer before the anthem is complete.)One act which perhaps equals the solemnity of our national anthem, and in which many routinely part
  
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• The Utah Jazz are underdogs against the Denver Nuggets, but aren’t thinking that way in first-round playoff series

  16-08-2020 22:30
  
  Like most teams in the NBA, the Utah Jazz have not been the same team during the restart that they were during the regular season. And more change is coming still now, with point guard Mike Conley leaving the bubble to be with his family for the birth of his third child.The thing is, though, change has come for everybody. Including the Jazz’s first-round playoff opponent, the Denver Nuggets.Utah’s players and coaching staff have spent so much of their time in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.,
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: No new deaths reported Sunday as cases average below 400 over the week

  16-08-2020 21:04
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. For the first time in two months, the state averaged less than 400 new cases over a weeklong period.On Sunday, the Utah Department of Health reported 331 new cases, for a seven-day rolling average of 357 and a total of 46,652 cases. No
  
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• Gordon Monson: Paul Millsap has one thing in mind against the Utah Jazz, and his former team won’t like it

  16-08-2020 20:59
  
  Itwas just short of eight years ago and Paul Millsap was struggling. As he almost always did when he played for the Jazz, he fought through thestruggle. Bobbing and weaving, punching left, punching right, movingforward, always forward, lathering up as he did his work.Come what may, the man was determined not to let the fight get the better of him.Why should he?Millsap had made a career with the Jazz as a model of competitiveconscientiousness — through the ups and downs and level stretchesi
  
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• White House’s chief of staff says he accepts Harris is eligible to run for VP

  16-08-2020 20:31
  
  Washington • White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday he accepts that Sen. Kamala Harris is eligible to serve as vice president, rejecting a false and racist conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump had promoted.“Sure,” said Meadows, when asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether he acknowledges the fact that she meets the constitutional requirements to be president or vice president. “And I think the president spoke to this yesterday. T
  
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• What research says about the amount of coronavirus you are initially exposed to

  16-08-2020 20:25
  
  Does the initial amount of the coronavirus you are exposed to matter?Let’s put that question another way: Say two similar people are exposed to different quantities of coronavirus particles. Is one of them likely to get sicker from the ensuing COVID-19 disease than the other?If you were a scientist, how would you study this?What you would want to do is run an experiment with a whole bunch of people, exposing some to small amounts of the coronavirus, some to medium amounts, and some to high
  
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• Body of missing 30-year-old Kane County man found at Jackson Flat Reservoir

  16-08-2020 20:22
  
  Divers have found the body of a 30-year-old man who went missing on Friday at Jackson Flat Reservoir.Abraham Knudson of Kanab went missing Friday afternoon, according to a report received about 5 p.m. by the Kane County Sheriff’s Dispatch Center. A female acquaintance told officials that she last saw Knudson at Jackson Flat Reservoir in Kanab City.The Kane County Sheriff’s Search & Rescue team immediately started a ground and water search for Knudson, while a medical helicopter f
  
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• The Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets have some playoff history, but not a lot of it

  16-08-2020 20:20
  
  As longtime division rivals, first in the NBA’s old Midwest Division and again the current Northwest, the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets obviously have quite an extensive history together.The weird thing is, that extensive history doesn’t really extend to the postseason.When the teams kick off their first-round matchup on Monday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., it will mark just the fifth postseason series between them. This will be the third time they’ve met in the first round, and th
  
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• Timothy Egan: Kamala Harris, the prosecutor Trump fears most

  16-08-2020 20:00
  
  Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, our case today is against the most powerful man in the world. And using the most powerful weapon of government by the people, you can hold this man accountable for the first time in his life, when you pass judgment on Nov. 3.We will show that President Donald Trump has made a mockery of the Constitution, has lied to you more than 20,000 times and is currently trying to sabotage the Postal Service in a desperate bid to cling to power. But worse than any of that,
  
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• Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley leaves Orlando for birth of son

  16-08-2020 19:34
  
  Mike Conley left the Orlando bubble on Sunday morning to return to Columbus, Ohio, for the birth of his son, just ahead of the Utah Jazz’s first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets.The first-year Jazz point guard told media back in early July that his wife, Mary, was due to give birth to their third child on or around Aug. 27, and that participating in the NBA restart was a difficult choice as a result. He made it clear back then that he had the support of the organization in l
  
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• Mike Conley leaves NBA bubble for birth of son

  16-08-2020 19:20
  
  Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) dribbles during an NBA game against the Toronto Raptors at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. The Jazz lost 92-101. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz knew that point guard Mike Conley would be leaving the NBA’s bubble in Orlando at some point to be with his wife, Mary, for the birth of their third child, a son, in Columbus, Ohio.
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• In Mike Conley’s absence, Nuggets head coach says Joe Ingles could be X-factor for Utah Jazz

  16-08-2020 19:20
  
  Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder talks with Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles (2) during the Jazz versus Spurs NBA game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News With Conley returning to Ohio to be with his wife and newborn son, the Jazz will be shorthanded when they open the NBA playoffs against Denver on Monday.SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz knew that starting point guard Mike Conley would be leaving the NBA’s bubble in Orland
  
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• Mike Conley leaves Orlando bubble

  16-08-2020 19:08
  
  Tim Reynolds: Utah Jazz announce that guard Mike Conley departed Orlando this morning and returned to Columbus, Ohio for the birth of his son.
  
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• Intermountain house call project aims to improve Utahns’ health by learning more about their lives

  16-08-2020 18:14
  
  Medicaid patients in Weber and Washington counties have been receiving house calls to improve their health — but the conversation ranges far beyond their medical needs.Community health workers explore whether they have enough food, whether their housing is stable, and how they get to the places they need to go.The visits are showing Intermountain Healthcare providers how to help the state’s most vulnerable residents at a critical time — and how to respond when factors like educ
  
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• Former Ute QB Alex Smith activated by Washington, cleared for practice

  16-08-2020 18:14
  
  Ashburn, Va. • Quarterback Alex Smith was activated off the physically unable to perform list by Washington’s NFL team Sunday, the latest step in a remarkable recovery after his right leg was broken in two places during a game nearly two years ago.The move means the former University of Utah quarterback Smith now is allowed to participate in Washington’s padded practices when the team can move to that phase of training camp Tuesday.It could make for an interesting dynamic at QB,
  
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• Alex Smith activated by Washington, cleared for practice

  16-08-2020 17:35
  
  Ashburn, Va. • Quarterback Alex Smith was activated off the physically unable to perform list by Washington’s NFL team Sunday, the latest step in a remarkable recovery after his right leg was broken in two places during a game nearly two years ago.The move means the former University of Utah quarterback Smith now is allowed to participate in Washington’s padded practices when the team can move to that phase of training camp Tuesday.It could make for an interesting dynamic at QB,
  
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• Macy Pingree: A centennial reflection on women’s rights

  16-08-2020 17:00
  
  August 18 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment being ratified into the U.S. Constitution.White women securing the right to vote is a momentous milestone in womankind’s journey for equality, certainly making this centennial a time for celebration. As we reflect on how far we have come, however, we can also see how far we have left to go.While the suffragettes dealt a significant blow to the monster that is oppression, it was by no means a fatal strike.20th century writ
  
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• The LDS Church is removing Minerva Teichert paintings from its own chapels, prompting a question: Where does the art belong?

  16-08-2020 16:54
  
  When Tim Teichert entered the chapel earlier this month in his Cokeville Latter-day Saint meetinghouse, which had been closed for months due to the coronavirus pandemic, to his horror, he spied empty spaces on the wall where two large paintings by his grandmother had hung.Famed artist Minerva Teichert, who lived most of her married life in the tiny Wyoming town, had hung two of her original works — “Cast Your Net to the Other Side” and “Handcart Pioneers” — th
  
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• The LDS Church is removing Minerva Teichert paintings from its own chapels, prompting question: Where does the art belong?

  16-08-2020 16:14
  
  When Tim Teichert entered the chapel earlier this month in his Cokeville Latter-day Saint meetinghouse, which had been closed for months due to the coronavirus pandemic, to his horror, he spied empty spaces on the wall where two large paintings by his grandmother had hung.Famed artist Minerva Teichert, who lived most of her married life in the tiny Wyoming town, had hung two of her original works — “Cast Your Net to the Other Side” and “Handcart Pioneers” — th
  
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• 79 teachers have retired or resigned in Salt Lake County due to COVID-19 concerns

  16-08-2020 16:13
  
  Editor’s note: Through a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting in-depth on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education.Jan Roberts cleaned out her third grade classroom this month, packing 32 years of teaching into cardboard boxes.Down came the motivational posters she’d made to remind her students that “mistakes are the way we learn.” Books once stacked against every wall were sorted for storage. Roberts donated the magnifying
  
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• New Tribune subscribers can now get a free year of The New York Times

  16-08-2020 16:07
  
  In a year like no other, it goes without saying that journalism matters. It matters where you live — in your state, in your country and in the world at large.With that in mind, The Salt Lake Tribune has announced that new Annual Supporting Subscribers can enjoy a free year of basic digital access to The New York Times.Tribune readers can claim this limited-time offer by visiting sltrib.com/support and signing up to be an Annual Supporting Subscriber, which runs $150. Part of that money pay
  
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• These house calls aim to improve Utahns’ health by learning more about their lives

  16-08-2020 16:06
  
  Medicaid patients in Weber and Washington counties have been receiving house calls to improve their health — but the conversation ranges far beyond their medical needs.Community health workers explore whether they have enough food, whether their housing is stable, and how they get to the places they need to go.The visits are showing Intermountain Healthcare providers how to help the state’s most vulnerable residents at a critical time — and how to respond when factors like educ
  
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• LDS bishops’ interviews can help teens with sex questions, says therapist who was abused by clergy

  16-08-2020 16:04
  
  Mental health therapist Jennifer Roach, a recent convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, believes that one-on-one bishops’ interviews — which have drawn criticism in recent years — often help rather than hurt teenagers.Roach, sadly, speaks from experience. She was abused as a teen by a youth pastor in her evangelical church in Modesto, Calif., in the 1980s.The former Anglican deacon, who now counsels abuse victims in the Seattle area, addressed the question
  
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• Utah women of color were part of fight for equal suffrage, historians say

  16-08-2020 14:00
  
  Earlier this year, Utahns learned about Seraph Young, the first Utah woman to vote, as well as the first woman to vote under an equal suffrage law in the United States.And this week, during the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, people will celebrate famous national suffragists, such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul.The stories of women of color who fought for equal voting rights are not as widely shared and often overlooked. In Utah, those lea
  
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• Suffrage celebrations ‘bittersweet’ for women of color whose fight continued after 19th Amendment

  16-08-2020 14:00
  
  Like people across the country, Utah state Rep. Sandra Hollins is celebrating the major suffrage milestones this year. But, she adds, they’re “sort of bittersweet.”A hundred years ago this week, U.S. women won the right to vote through the ratification of the 19th Amendment. In February, Utahns celebrated the 150th anniversary of women in the state first becoming enfranchised.The benefits of these landmark achievements were largely limited to white women, though. Women of color
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Wildly entertaining ‘Lovecraft Country’ is terrifying — both the monsters and the racists

  16-08-2020 14:00
  
  HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” is chock-full of terrifying monsters and unrepentant racists — and the racists are scarier. And as fantastical as the fiction is, the truth of this 10-episode series strikes at the heart of America.Based on the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff and set in the 1950s, “Lovecraft Country” (Sunday, 7 p.m., HBO) follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors), a sci-fi/horror fan and Korean War veteran who’s traveling home to Chicago before setting
  
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• Robert Kirby: Church won’t be the same after COVID-19

  16-08-2020 14:00
  
  Few things will be the same when (if) we make it through this current pandemic. It’s almost certain that our previous definition of normal will have changed.A good example is how online shopping has taken off. Who wants to wander a store on a bad knee looking for some obscure item when it’s possible to find it online in under a minute and have it delivered in 48 hours?The same is true of movies. Why pay $8 for the “convenience” of someone else popping a nickel’s wor
  
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• Letter: Worried about The Tribune’s direction

  16-08-2020 14:00
  
  I am worried about the direction The Salt Lake Tribune is taking in its editorial pages.On Aug. 9, I see only far-right-wing Rich Lowry representing national columns. The other five pieces are all local, and three of them are LDS Church-related.I’m sorry Jennifer Napier-Pearce is leaving and fear her leadership will be a great loss to The Tribune. I enjoy Leonard Pitts and hope he is just on vacation.If The Tribune starts leaning toward local LDS items at the expense of wider-ranging infor
  
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• LDS Church removing Minerva Teichert paintings from its own chapels, prompting question: Where does the art belong?

  16-08-2020 14:00
  
  When Tim Teichert entered the chapel earlier this month in his Cokeville Latter-day Saint meetinghouse, which had been closed for months due to the coronavirus pandemic, to his horror, he spied empty spaces on the wall where two large paintings by his grandmother had hung.Famed artist Minerva Teichert, who lived most of her married life in the tiny Wyoming town, had hung two of her original works — “Cast Your Net to the Other Side” and “Handcart Pioneers” — th
  
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• How sick you get may be tied to how much coronavirus you initially came into contact with

  16-08-2020 14:00
  
  Does the initial amount of the coronavirus you are exposed to matter?Let’s put that question another way: Say two similar people are exposed to different quantities of coronavirus particles. Is one of them likely to get sicker from the ensuing COVID-19 disease than the other?If you were a scientist, how would you study this?What you would want to do is run an experiment with a whole bunch of people, exposing some to small amounts of the coronavirus, some to medium amounts, and some to high
  
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• 79 teachers have retired or resigned in Salt Lake County due to COVID concerns

  16-08-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: Through a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting in-depth on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education.Jan Roberts cleaned out her third grade classroom this month, packing 32 years of teaching into cardboard boxes.Down came the motivational posters she’d made to remind her students that “mistakes are the way we learn.” Books once stacked against every wall were sorted for storage. Roberts donated the magnifying
  
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• Letter: Congress must protect the Postal Service

  16-08-2020 06:30
  
  In my 92 years, I’ve lived through the Great Depression, the polio scare, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. I always had faith that we’d make it through.Now. I’m worried. Our president, who has been very vocal in his distrust of mail-in balloting, is using his executive power to cripple the United States Postal Service. Our Senate and Congress, regardless of party, must step in to stop this abuse of power.Carol Ogden, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Analysis: Breaking down the matchup between Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets

  16-08-2020 05:04
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) can’t keep up with Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray (27) as the Utah Jazz and the Denver Nuggets play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Denver won 98-95, giving the Jazz its fifth straight loss. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — When Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder said his team will have its work cut out for it with the Denver Nuggets in the playoffs, he wasn’t lying.
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• Robert Trump, president’s younger brother, dies at 71

  16-08-2020 04:50
  
  New York • President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being hospitalized in New York, the president said in a statement. He was 71.The president visited his brother at a New York City hospital on Friday after White House officials said he had become seriously ill. Officials did not immediately release a cause of death.“It is with heavy heart I share t
  
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• Former BYU star Peter Kuest extends his Utah Open lead

  16-08-2020 03:20
  
  Provo • The players chasing Peter Kuest in Sunday’s final round of the Siegfried & Jensen Utah Open want to believe it is too early to write his name on the winner’s check for $15,000. He already may have earned another tribute, though.After what he has done through two rounds in the northwest section of the Riverside Country Club property, that four-hole phase could become known as Kuest Corner.The rookie pro from BYU holds a five-stroke lead over Riverside teaching pro Mat
  
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• Protesters rally against so-called mass evictions outside Salt Lake City apartments

  16-08-2020 03:12
  
  Rhyannon Rodriguez planned to end her lease at Hawthorne House Apartments in August and move in with family, but those plans changed.So, she decided it was reasonable to ask to go month to month at the multiplex, at the bottom of the Avenues neighborhood, east of downtown. Rodriguez said she received written confirmation twice in July that she could. It’d be no problem.Then, when her partner came over for dinner one night soon after, he spotted a note on the door. It said she had to be out
  
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• Letter: Sturgis-style ‘rugged individualism’ has become a hazard

  16-08-2020 03:00
  
  Watching the congregation of motorbike enthusiasts growing wildly in Sturgis, S.D., this week, I viewed a television report explaining that tents offering free masks and hand sanitizer were bereft of customers while several sites offering Trump campaign souvenirs were doing brisk business.Not a surprise, considering the complete dedication of this group to the president's ideology.It seems the notion of America's rugged individualism combined with Second Amendment rights have encouraged armed mi
  
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• Drafted and traded away by Denver, Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell need to be great for the Jazz to beat the Nuggets

  16-08-2020 03:00
  
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) talks with guard Donovan Mitchell, left, during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons Saturday, March 7, 2020, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — Fate is such a funny and fickle beast.
  Whenever the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets play each other, Jazz fans are quick to point out that their team’s franchise cornerstones, Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, both came to Utah on their respective draft
  
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• Both drafted by Denver, Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell need to be great for the Jazz to beat the Nuggets

  16-08-2020 03:00
  
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) talks with guard Donovan Mitchell, left, during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons Saturday, March 7, 2020, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — Fate is such a funny and fickle beast.
  Whenever the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets play each other, Jazz fans are quick to point out that their team’s franchise cornerstones, Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, both came to Utah on their respective draft
  
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• Utah Jazz are not the same as they were before the pandemic. What does that mean for the playoffs?

  16-08-2020 01:55
  
  From the moment it was announced in May that sharpshooting forward Bojan Bogdanovic would be undergoing season-ending surgery, it was apparent that the Utah Jazz would have to find new ways to play, new ways to win.But now, after having spent more than five weeks in the NBA bubble, after myriad practices, three scrimmages, and eight seeding games, where do they stand, with the Denver Nuggets coming this Monday?We’ve seen more off-the-bounce 3s attempted in a bid to juice the offense; more
  
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• Latter-day Saints laud Joe Biden at national event, say he reflects their values better than Trump

  16-08-2020 01:54
  
  Just before the Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday, Joe Biden’s campaign staged a national virtual event Saturday in which a parade of Latter-day Saints told fellow church members why they support the former vice president.And sometimes they also said why they see President Donald Trump as wicked. It came during an event where participants opened and closed with prayer, quoted scriptures, repeated teachings of church leaders and sometimes shared testimonies that helped put Bid
  
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• The Utah Jazz are not the same team they were before the pandemic. What does that mean for the playoffs?

  16-08-2020 01:09
  
  From the moment it was announced in May that sharpshooting forward Bojan Bogdanovic would be undergoing season-ending surgery, it was apparent that the Utah Jazz would have to find new ways to play, new ways to win.But now, after having spent more than five weeks in the NBA bubble, after myriad practices, three scrimmages, and eight seeding games, where do they stand, with the Denver Nuggets coming this Monday?We’ve seen more off-the-bounce 3s attempted in a bid to juice the offense; more
  
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• Letter: Use the freedom my father died for

  16-08-2020 01:00
  
  Every day I look at a framed picture of my father (who I never really knew) in his Marine uniform, along with the following letter:“In grateful memory of James Lawrence Jensen — United States Marine Corps — Who Died In The Service Of His Country At — Peleliu Island, Palau Islands, 27 September 1944 — He stands in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live, and grow, and increase its blessings. Freedom lives, and through it, he lives
  
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• Be careful what you wish for — Nuggets are formidable foe for Jazz

  16-08-2020 01:00
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell drives the ball against Denver Nuggets’ Torrey Craig during game Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Craig has presented problems for Mitchell this season. | evin C. Cox/Pool Photo via APSALT LAKE CITY — Can you feel the excitement in the air? It’s NBA playoff time, even if it is 100 degrees outside here while the Utah Jazz are a couple thousand miles across the country.
  The Jazz are getting ready to take on their Rockies rivals
  
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• Trump to withdraw Pendley’s nomination as public lands chief

  16-08-2020 00:59
  
  Seattle • President Donald Trump intends to withdraw the nomination of William Perry Pendley to head the Bureau of Land Management, a senior administration official said Saturday — much to the relief of environmentalists who insisted the longtime advocate of selling federal lands should not be overseeing them.Pendley, a former oil industry and property rights attorney from Wyoming, has been acting as the director of the agency for more than a year under a series of temporary orders fr
  
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• Latter-day Saints laud Joe Biden at national campaign event, say he reflects their values better than Trump

  16-08-2020 00:26
  
  Just before the Democratic National Convention kicks off on Monday, Joe Biden’s campaign staged a national virtual event on Saturday where a parade of Latter-day Saints told fellow church members why they support the former vice president.And sometimes they also said why they see President Donald Trump as wicked. It came during an event where participants opened and closed with prayer, quoted scriptures, repeated teachings of church leaders and sometimes shared testimonies that helped put
  
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• To succeed against Denver, Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell says he’ll need to emphasize his playmaking

  16-08-2020 00:04
  
  After his lowest scoring night of the season, Donovan Mitchell sat in front of his designated locker in the Pepsi Center visitor locker room and tipped his hat to his opponent.“I got to give Torrey Craig credit, he made it tough on me,” Mitchell said. “He always does. He’s a great defender.”That was after a 106-100 loss to the Denver Nuggets on January 30, one of three Jazz defeats to the Nuggets this year. Mitchell scored only four points all game, with his first b
  
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