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While George's emergence has been a revelation for the Jazz, this is a team that needs to continue adding to its core to reach the levels that they desire. The ideal result would be getting some lottery luck in the form of a top-three pick to add to the young and growing core.
The Jazz were slightly shorthanded Tuesday night, with Ace Bailey and Kevin Love missing the contest against the Celtics. Of course, Utah’s season took a major shift early in the year following Walker Kessler’s season-ending surgery, which forced Nurkić into a larger role than expected.
Law Murray: The Utah Jazz have a lengthy availability report for January at LA Clippers: Lauri Markkanen (knee) and Keyonte George (illness) are questionable. hella suspect lol Ace Bailey (hip), Jusuf Nurkic (foot), Kevin Love (rest) are all out Bogdanovic/Zubac remains out for Clippers
Keyonte George got super excited as soon as he found out the Utah Jazz were getting Jusuf Nurkić via trade back in June. Nurkić’s history of playing alongside guys like Damian Lillard, C.J. McCollum and Devin Booker had George thinking about all the possibilities.
When she was 11, Paige Anne’s performance at a Utah Jazz game went viral. Now, eight years later, she has again gone viral at a Jazz game — but for a completely different reason.
The options were narrowed down to three: remaining as the Utah Hockey Club; the Outlaws; and the Mammoth, which was announced as the winner on May 7. “Tusks up!” is the team’s new slogan, and the light blue, black and white color scheme from the first season was made permanent.
Currently, the Jazz are slated to have a single game on national TV this year and it’s coming up on Jan. 27 against the Los Angeles Clippers on NBC. So, let’s see if Markkanen can break the drought that day. Ignore the rest of the draft class and study, study, study.
The Utah Jazz have seen some good things from a handful of their budding young core through the first two months of the NBA season, ultimately helping lead to their better-than-anticipated 12-19 record rolling into the end of December.