BDL’s 2015-16 NBA Season Previews: Utah Jazz (Ball Don’t Lie)
Rare do storylines come as cut and dried as this one. The only trouble was, outside of Jazz fans and NBA dorks, nobody really knew Salt Lake City even had a story to tell last year [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball ] The Jazz stood at 17-33 with just a few games left before the All-Star break, working with the league's fourth-worst defense. Neither mark was much of a surprise. The team started a defensive zero in Enes Kanter at center and it had recently decided to start an at-times clueless 19-year old rookie in Dante Exum at point guard after Trey Burke's poor showing. It was a young roster and the depth was lacking. The team won two of three before the break to encourage a bit of momentum, and at the trade deadline the team moved Kanter on to Oklahoma City cap fodder and a future first round draft pick. The draft pick (likely showing up in Utah in 2017, top 14 protected from there until 2020) was a nice haul for a player who was set to be a restricted free agent during the summer, and Kanter had his detractors, but the disappointment was real: Utah dealt the byproduct of a lost 2010-11 season for a draft pick they won't see for years, as...
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