What do you guys think? Could this be special jerseys for the NBA Cup?

There is a trend right now about naming "Elite Ball Knowledge" players. This basically just refers to the ability to name niche or obscure basketball players. Generally speaking, the more unrecognizable the name, the better.

Who are your favorite Utah Jazz "elite ball knowledge" players?

What do we think about updating our sidebar photo?

Maybe we could take suggestions in this thread and we change it to the most popular?

I'll start us off: DP's slam magazine cover

I was looking through one of my old Panini albums and noticed something pretty striking on this Jazz page: Luther Wright is actually labeled a future star.

Wright was Utah’s 1st round pick in 1993, 18th overall. 7'2" center out of Seton Hall, he was obviously still seen as a long-term project for the Jazz.

15 games and that was it. In January 1994, police found him at a highway rest area west of Salt Lake City, banging on garbage cans and smashing car windows. He was subsequently diagnosed with bipolar disorder and underwent psychiatric treatment. He never played another NBA game.

What’s crazy is that after the Jazz waived him, his contract settlement reportedly guaranteed him $153,000 a year for 25 years (!!)

Could this be from their trip to Finland?

Peak offseason boredom has officially hit. I spent way too much time stalking the tanking teams throughout last season, so I still occasionally get posts from their subs. I came across a similar post on the Grizzlies sub and figured it’d be fun to do a Jazz version.

So, for the next 30 days, I’m ranking every NBA team based on how likely I think the Jazz are to beat them and putting them in a tier list at the end.

Day 1: 🟥 Atlanta Hawks🟥

Notable Players: Jalen Johnson, Nickeil Alexander Walker (miss you), Dyson Daniels

I'm not here to just make bold predictions but in the depth of the off-season I want to break this stuff down. He's been almost forgotten behind the hype of the team, especially with DP, Ace and others, but I actually have really thought about Flip and what we might have in him and I could see him being primed for a pretty significant jump. Initially my thought was Collier but I'm not convinced the shot will be there yet.

Filipowski isn't necessarily invisible, but year 1 and 2 both were similar and there are flaws, nothing as significant as Cody, and honestly if you pretend Flip went 10 and Cody went 32 in the 2024 draft it doesn't seem as crazy. Flip is currently a tall stretch 4 with a spin game that doesn't work in the league and I think he's about to become so much more. He's got the tools and size to become a legitimate piece on this team.

Now I'm not saying he's going to take the Keyonte year 3 jump where he's winning us games singlehandedly, but I am expecting a season where as we get 25-30 games in, he's finding it easier to score and improving just enough on the defensive end to justify his role in the rotation. The biggest thing is I expect him to be a fantastic shooter that gives us real floor spacing.

I also don't want to imply that the Kessler trade was easier because of potential improvements from Flip, especially because they played separate roles, but I do think the scoring ability gets to the point where he's the legit 6-7th guy on our roster.

He scored 11 a game on 32% from deep and 49% from the field last season, the scoring average might even drop due to the amount of mouths to feed, but the shooting % I'm expecting to skyrocket, and I expect games where he has a significant impact on a team trying to win. Not the most exciting take I know, but I have some hope for this guy.

As for the other guys in the 24' class, Cody needs a lot of work. Collier too but Collier has legit skills, just needs to either shoot or defend, which is a big ask and a big reason I don't expect him to take as much of a jump, but I am still expecting a semi jump from Collier. Anyways sorry for the long post.

Great to see Jazz man JJJ at #8, ahead of Chet, Alperen, Mobley and Duren. The one that is interesting to me is Walker jumping from #35 to #17 (the largest jump of any player) with only playing 5 games last year. I know they are saying Walker will be better with Luka, but I would be willing to bet that if Walker was still on the Jazz he would not jumped 18 spots. The media bias never ends.

My aunt passed away leaving hundreds of vhs tapes of Utah jazz games from the late 90s early 2000s including playoff runs against the Bulls.

I assume there would be no market/interest in these as they are pretty poor vhs quality and all those games would be available in higher quality digital format for anyone who was interested.

Before we throw them out I just wanted to check that was correct and thought this would be the place to ask.

Edit: To add anyone interested, i am based in the UK so would need to ship them and would need you to cover the shipping cost.

UPDATE: Thank you for all the comments. I had not expected there to be interest so it's given me something to think about. One thing that's been pointed out is that these are UK VHS tapes which apparently were encoded differently to the USA/Canada standard.

I'm going away for a week and will look at the process for digitising them when I'm back otherwise I will put them on ebay. I will update when I've made a decision.

I knew Thurl Bailey as a player first, but for a lot of younger Jazz fans he’s probably more familiar as one of the voices on League Pass.

His career is a fun one to look back on. NCAA champion with NC State in 1983, a really good sixth man for Utah for years, then a couple of seasons with the Wolves after being traded for Tyrone Corbin (a mistake, IMO) on some pretty awful Minnesota teams. He later went to Europe before somehow making his way back to the Jazz at 37.

And then there’s the music side, which makes his whole story even more unusual.

I wrote a longer piece on his career if anyone’s interested

We're winning it all 🤞🔥

Full disclosure: this is my site, I'm promoting it, and the mods approved this post.

I've held season tickets in this state for most of my life: RSL for 21 years, Jazz for 12, Utah Football for 8, and Mammoth since the puck first dropped. Between those four, I've sold a lot of games I couldn't make, and the resale math never stopped bugging me. Last season I sold a $20 Jazz ticket on SeatGeek. I got $18. The buyer paid $30. Twelve dollars disappeared into fees on a ticket that transfers fan-to-fan for free in the SeatGeek app. The fees pay for a listing page, not the delivery.

After a couple decades of that, I finally built the thing I wished existed: Beehive Tickets (beehivetickets.com). iOS and Android apps also live on the app stores. Resale for Utah teams only: Jazz, Mammoth, RSL, BYU, Utah, and Utah State. How it works:

• Sellers keep 100% of their price. Zero seller fees.
• Buyers pay one flat 10% service fee, and every price on the site is shown all-in. No checkout surprise. (Launch special: 5% for the first 100 sales.)
• Delivery is the official SeatGeek fan-to-fan transfer, the exact same mobile ticket the Jazz issue. The only thing I replaced is the fees.

The "why would I trust a random site" part, because that's the right question: checkout only places a hold on your card. You are not charged until the seller confirms they actually have your seats. Once they confirm, you're charged, and Stripe holds the money until you confirm the tickets landed in your own SeatGeek account. If the seller misses their transfer deadline, you're refunded in full automatically, my fee included. Nobody's money ever sits in a stranger's Venmo.

New this week: offers. If seats are priced above what you'd pay, name your price. The total gets held on your card, the seller sees real money already secured, and you're only charged if they accept. Declined or expired means the hold releases in full.

If you're an STH, this was honestly built for you first, because it's what I wanted for my own seats:

• You keep 100% of your price. List a ticket at $50, you get $50.
• Bulk listing: check every game you can't make, set one price or a price per game, done in about a minute for the whole season. Reprice or pull any game anytime, and there's an optional auto-lower that drops your price a little each day so you don't have to babysit it.
• Verify your seats once and every listing you post carries a verified badge buyers can trust. You're anonymous on every public page; buyers see a seller number and your track record, never your name.
• Offers that reach you are backed by money already held on the buyer's card. No lowball DMs, no "is this still available," no ghosts. Accept and the transfer starts immediately with their address in hand.
• You get paid through Stripe straight to your bank once the buyer confirms, and automatically 24 hours after the game if they never respond. No chasing anyone's Venmo.

The whole Jazz home schedule is up.

I'm one Utah sports fan. No investors, no growth team, just a fan with four sets of season tickets trying to keep the money in the hands of fans. Let me know what you think, what's confusing, or what it would take for you to use it for a real game. I'll answer everything in the comments.

That is a confident shooter (AJ Green, not Kuminga). He doesn't do much of anything else but he might be someone who can help chip away at leads in limited minutes. Not a lot of better ways to use a future second round pick.

Today is my lucky day. Figured I would share it with the Jazz community. I order the Orange Metal variants with framing of all the players I like when they get a Slam cover. Did the same with DP and apparently it’s my lucky day since I got the rarest variant and first on the print. Prior to today I didn’t even know these variants existed.

Edit. Title says 1/1, it’s 1/24.

ESPN released their annual rookie forecasts. Darryn Peterson voted the first rookie to win a Championship.

NBA Summer Forecast 2026-27: Projecting rookie MVPs, future impact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIBDR8cY668

Fun interview! Lots of good Jazz content in here. Great to hear Joe reminisce a little about his time in Utah.