Salt City Hoops Utah Jazz Podcast

Mark Pereira (@markrussellpereira.bsky.social) breaks down and gives final assessments for all of the major players of the 2024-25 Utah Jazz season. How did the young players improve (or not)? Is Lauri Markkanen still a bona fide tentpole to build around? Come hang with Salt City Hoops.

The Utah Jazz are busy on the trade market for this 2025 Trade Deadline in the NBA! Join Mark Pereira and Dan Clayton as they take a look at Utah's role in the earth-shattering Luka Doncic trade, a tiny roster shift, and the possibilities left to ponder as we near the Trade Deadline.

The Utah Jazz make a big swap of important first-round picks with the Phoenix Suns to give Phoenix a chance to improve their roster now, while the Jazz take the long view for a juicy pick 7 years from now. Was it worth it? Join Mark Russell Pereira (@markrussellpereira on Bluesky) to evaluate the trade and also give an update on how Utah's cavalcade of young players are faring these days.

Mark Russell Pereira and Dan Clayton look the positive and negative trends worth discussing a third of the way through the Utah Jazz season. Who has delighted? Who has disappointed? And, most importantly, how can we explain what has happened? Tune in for deep, level-headed, and yet always irreverent analysis from Mark and Dan, followed by a quick moment to remember Paul Millsap, one of the best gu...

Mark Russell Pereira (@markrussellpereira.bsky.social) recaps the past ten-ish days of Utah Jazz basketball. Covering the emergence of Kyle Filipowski as a useful starter, Isaiah Collier starting in place of Keyonte George (at least for a half!), and details and trends from the past five games.

The Utah Jazz kick off their intentional youth movement 1-7 and are already in pole position for the best lottery odds for next year's draft. However, being this bad already means that the current young potential isn't playing well. Join Mark Russell Pereira (@markrussellpereira.bsky.social) as he examines what isn't going right for the likes of Keyonte George and Lauri Markkanen, frustration with...

Mark Russell Pereira (@mark_r_pereira) and Ken Clayton (@k_clayt) are back to give the final season preview podcast for the Utah Jazz! This episode covers the overall preseason takeaways, what to look for in the first few weeks of the season, and what our predictions and dreams are for the Jazz this year. Follow Salt City Hoops on Twitter (@saltcityhoops), Bluesky (saltcityhoops.bsky.social), and...

Dan Clayton (@danclayt0n) and Mark Russell Pereira (@Mark_R_Pereira) continue the Utah Jazz Season Preview Series for Salt City Hoops! We go player by player through the entire roster, and in this episode we finish the team with Keyonte George, Jordan Clarkson, John Collins, Kyle Filipowski, and Svi Mykhailiuk.

Dan Clayton (@danclayt0n) and Mark Russell Pereira (@Mark_R_Pereira) kick off the Utah Jazz Season Preview Series for Salt City Hoops! We go player by player through the entire roster, starting in this episode with in-depth previews of the seasons ahead for Collin Sexton, Walker Kessler, Cody Williams, Brice Sensabaugh, and Patty Mills.

Dan Clayton (@danclayt0n) and Mark Russell Pereira (@Mark_R_Pereira) kick off the Utah Jazz Season Preview Series for Salt City Hoops! We go player by player through the entire roster, starting in this episode with in-depth previews of the seasons ahead for Lauri Markkanen, Taylor Hendricks, Drew Eubanks, Isaiah Collier, and Johnny Juzang.

Lauri Markkanen is here to stay with the Utah Jazz for 5 more years after officially signing his renegotiation and extension deal. Join Dan Clayton and Mark Russell Pereira of Salt City Hoops as they break down the specifics of the new deal, their enthusiasm for the young star, and what this means for the Jazz rebuild plan going forward to get back into title contention. Read Salt City Hoops Follo...

The Utah Jazz are primed for an extremely active offseason of roster shakeups, following a rookie draft that many are lauding. Dan Clayton and Mark Russell Pereira from Salt City Hoops will introduce Jazz fans to the new rookies Cody Williams, Isaiah Collier, and Kyle Filipowski, followed by a discussion on what to do with Lauri Markkanen this summer and how the Jazz may fill out the rest of the r...

After a pair of deadline week trades by the Utah Jazz, Mark Russell Pereira, Ken Clayton and Dan Clayton came together to talk about how the deals fit into Utah's ongoing rebuild and forecast just how bumpy the closing stretch could be after the resulting rotation shuffle.

On the eve of what will be a very different Utah Jazz season, Salt City Hoops' Dan and Ken Clayton came together to discuss six (and ultimately seven) big questions relating to the season and the club's future. They first spent a few minutes reacting to news about Jazz GM Justin Zanik's extended contract, and then dove in on questions about Utah's current talent and how they will aim to construct...

The Jazz finally made the deal everybody expected -- by making the deal nobody expected. They moved on from All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell, but not by trading him to the New York Knicks, whose pursuit of the Westchester County native had been well documented. Instead. the Jazz got three young players, three unprotected picks and a pair of first-round swap options from the Cleveland Cavaliers, who...

The Utah Jazz's offseason saw yet another plot turn on Tuesday afternoon when Adrian Wojnarowski reported at ESPN that the club is increasingly "showing a willingness" to entertain trade offers for star guard Donovan Mitchell. The asking price is "steep," Wojnarowski reports, but the Jazz are reportedly listening. Ken Clayton and Dan Clayton jumped in front of microphones to proffer their interpre...

This week always had a high likelihood of being consequential for the Utah Jazz, but all date was erased with a major announcement that came Tuesday: Will Hardy will be the Jazz's next head coach. Ken Clayton and Dan Clayton used that news as a springboard to talk about the likelihood of imminent roster change. Each came prepared with a list of (ostensibly) budget free agents who could be availabl...

This Utah Jazz postseason could potentially define the next decade of the franchise, so it's worth analyzing all the ways it could turn out. To do that, Dan Clayton and Ken Clayton fired up the Salt City Hoops podcast to dive into Jazz-Mavs. They start by looking at how the games/series could change with or without Mavs star Luka Doncic, including examining how the Jazz have done in Luka's off-cou...

The Jazz might have brought back their entire core, but that doesn't mean there aren't still interesting storylines surrounding many of the key personalities as they head toward a season with high expectations. Ken and Dan Clayton decided to pepper one another with specific questions about Jazzmen and what their growth, roles and narratives could entail as Utah tries to establish itself as a title...

The Utah Jazz quickly re-signed Mike Conley Jr. as free agency opened, then completed three other transactions that may have solidified their 2020-21 roster. Ken Clayton and Dan Clayton reconvene on the Salt City Hoops podcast to talk about the active week for Utah and where it leaves them as they look to build on last season's No. 1 finish and, perhaps more importantly, finally break through in t...

Draft expert Adam Spinella from The Box and One (@TheBoxAndOne_) joins Salt City Hoops' Isaac Adams and Dan Clayton ahead of the 2021 NBA Draft. Adam and Isaac each share some names that make some sense as Jazz draft targets, and the trio also examines some broader questions along the way. What do the Jazz need the most after their playoff collapse? Do they target an immediate contributor or a hig...

Just hours after we published an episode looking at all the angles and inflexion points in a 2-2 Jazz-Clippers battle, the series changed completely. It felt weird to leave last night's podcast sitting out there without reacting to the news that Kawhi Leonard will miss the remainder of this series with a knee injury. So Dan Clayton jumped back on the mic and recorded a quick addendum where he talk...

The Jazz and Clippers have, perhaps fittingly, found themselves knotted up at 2-2 in their best of seven series in the Western Conference semifinals. Heading into a massively important Game 5, Ken Clayton and Dan Clayton convene on the long lost SCH podcast to react to Game 4 and process some award news that will cost one Jazz player $32 million. Dang injuries! Then we spend the bulk of the episod...

On this week's episode of the Salt City Hoops Show, hosts Andy Larsen and Ben Anderson talk about the Jazz in the future. There's the short term future: how will Jazz players like Donovan Mitchell, Joe Ingles, and Rudy Gobert deal with the rigors of the FIBA World Cup? Then there's the slightly longer-term future: which of the Jazzmen are projected to have better seasons this year than last year?...

On this week's episode, hosts Andy Larsen and Ben Anderson talk about the Jazz's offseason: getting Mike Conley, Bojan Bogdanovic, Jeff Green, and Emmanuel Mudiay. What roles will they play? What will next year's team look like? We also talk about the Jazz's summer league and end of the bench signings, from Tony Bradley to the three second round picks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...