Salt City Hoops Utah Jazz Podcast

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.

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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.

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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 roster.

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 a contender on their current foundation of players and assets.

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 will be the next employer of a player who has brought Utah's fans a lot of joy for five seasons.

Mark Russell Pereira joins Dan Clayton to think back on what Mitchell's tenure meant for fans, and to react to the trade, both from a visceral and an analytical perspective. They look at the rebuilding period ahead of the Jazz and along the way philosophize about fandom.

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 interpretations on just what this shift in language from the NBA's biggest newsbreaker does or doesn't signal. They also analyze the diverging paths in front of franchise leadership, and just for good measure scan the NBA landscape for teams with enough draft capital to meet a theoretical (or maybe not that theoretical anymore) Jazz asking price.