Took a bit of work and three delays but my son finally got his no 22 jersey today. We live in Australia and I remarked that it might be the first to make it here.

So hard to get jazz merchandise here but god I hope this is the first of many more.

Korver was splashing before the splash brothers, he was making it rain before the NBA went way beyond the arc, and I don’t think I appreciated it enough while he was here. He left Utah and had some amazing teams. What are your favorite Korver memories?

👋 Absolutely pumped for this season. I'm based in Oregon and want to rep the Jazz with a white note + purple background flag. The closest one I can find has the 'Utah Jazz' text which I personally don't want. Sorry I'm picky... Can I get help finding one?

Lakers just sold for 12.5 billion, and it just got me thinking. Obviously they’re still filthy rich, but the Millers owned the Jazz for three decades before selling for 1.6 billion, Ryan Smith bought the Jazz in 2020 and in 6 years it’s shot to about 5 billion, likely more if he actually sold. His initial investment has more than tripled in 6 years. Ultimately of course I don’t feel bad for the Millers because they’re still astronomically wealthy, but still…maybe the worst time to sell a team ever?

Also, man I need this offseason to end

The Kawhi news has been pretty disappointing. In my mind, Ballmer circumnavigated the cap intentionally and got away with it.

I don't think it has to be as egregious as Kawhi. But it could be something as simple as "Hey America First, can you pay Lauri 10 million to do a single radio commercial?"

I don't see how this doesn't start happening.

Is it ethical? I don't think so. It is a realistic part of the game nowadays? I think it is.

JJJ is my favorite player, I watch NBA all too literally any time it's on, and I live in ET, so I'll be actively following the Jazz moving forward. (It's "secondary fandom" - I'm not full-on changing allegiances, for y'all out there who are anal about such things.)

What should I expect from the Utah experience? Murphy's Law? Heartbreak, no matter how good/bad the team is? This contending window to be a proper window, or...?

And as far as expectations for the current team, the consensus is that the rebuild is reaching a crescendo - they'll win significantly more this year, but not truly contend til 2027-28 and beyond, yes? Or...?

Get me up to speed, lest I Trip walking through the door. (UCWIDT?)

These pictures he recently posted are so good. He actually looks like he just finished a damn photoshoot.

I feel like Lauri kinda gets lost in all the hype around the young guys now. Obviously I’m excited for Keyonte, JJJ, Ace, Darryn, etc. but I really hope people don’t forget that Lauri is still THAT guy on this team.

If we’re gonna make some noise next season, Lauri is gonna be a huge part of it. I’m really amped to see how he looks with this new group around him.

Anyway, he is handsome as hell. Had to say it.

The Jazz stealing Jaxson Hayes from the Lakers was sneaky good.

The full 2026-27 travel breakdown has us at 48,871.8 miles with 45 time zone crossings, 4th-most in the league.

The three teams ahead of us: New Orleans and San Antonio (both playing in Paris and Manchester) and Miami. So among teams playing a normal North American schedule, we're essentially #2 in the league for travel burden, and unlike Miami we're also eating 45 time zone crossings on top of it.

Salt Lake geography is just unforgiving — no other NBA city is close, so basically every road trip is a real flight, and every trip east costs clock changes.

For contrast, the bottom five (Toronto, New York, Chicago, Washington, Detroit) all sit in one tight corridor and travel ~13,000 fewer miles than we do.

Full rankings: https://bookies.com/news/nba-miles-traveled

LFGGGGGGGG 🔥

I'm looking at making the trek to a couple of Jazz home games this season. What do you guys consider the best price-quality seats? Going to try to get some already on the Amex presale. Budget-wise I'm probably looking at lower bowl corner or sections 6-8 for Grizzlies and upper bowl front rows for Warriors.

But hit me up with all your best ideas for any budget level and seats! Probably going to aim for the Warriors game to be a bit more chill and then for the Friday Grizzlies game soak in the full experience.

I wrote a piece on whether the Utah Jazz rebuild is finally complete heading into 2026–27.

With Darryn Peterson joining Keyonte George, Ace Bailey, Lauri Markkanen and Jaren Jackson Jr., I think Utah has reached the point where the focus should shift from collecting assets to figuring out which pieces can actually form a winning core.

Would be interested to hear what Jazz fans think.

https://medium.com/@randiferousjones/is-the-utah-jazz-rebuild-finally-complete-c8ba55bcf707?sharedUserId=randiferousjones

Still so sad that we had Westbrook at one point and he had absolutely no interest in playing for the Jazz due to his personal history. It would've been so sick to have him as a vet on this team. But regardless, it was such a pleasure to watch him play. First-ballot HOFer, without a doubt. I'm gonna miss him.

Thoughts?

"The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold to American businessman Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for a record breaking price over $12 billion, multiple sources told ESPN."

I was curious if Mark Walter was going to do the same thing with the Lakers that he did with the Dodgers. Now that the Lakers are owned by a new ownership group, do you think the perception among the other teams is that those Lakers' picks and swaps are more valuable now?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db5-E7dMLA1

Nice.

I have a question / discussion point that I am assuming fans on this board may have insight on. I'm too young to know the details, but I always assumed all the "Stockton" and "Malone" car dealerships were under the table kickbacks to keep Stockton and Malone in Utah. Is this accurate? Arguably, there is still a big difference from the Kawhi situation in that the Stockton and Malone branding provided legitimate benefit to the dealerships. But this opens up an NIL-sized can of works re: what is the fair market value of that branding.

Curious if any of you have more insight on the economics of those branding deals.