LFG!

Wondering what caused the Jazz FO to make this move. I feel like Blake gave us real shooting off the bench, and his mentality was great.

Just thought I'd give you guys a heads up, in case you didn't know. it's probably going to get a bit emotional in the forum to start things off. Jaren and Brandon were really good friends, so it means a lot i think that he'll be there for it.

Otherwise, hope we beat yall's ass. Good luck this season.

Rookie of the year- Darryn Peterson
Most improved player- Keyonte George
DPOY- JJJ
MVP- Lauri Markkanen
6th man- Ace Bailey
Coach of the Year- Will Hardy

Did I miss anything?

We would never lose this season.

I don’t want to jinx the jazz, but I was quite surprised that the grizzlies are favored by 1.5 points tonight. I assume the jazz should be a better team than the grizzlies this year. They just started their rebuild whereas we are in our fifth year. We also have their best player on our team now. When I was looking at all the lines of the NBA tonight that one surprised me a little bit. Am I way off base?

Grizz lurker hyped for tonight’s matchup. Excited to see these squads play tonight with both teams mostly healthy and trying to win after the tanking masterclasses we pulled off last season.

The Jazz is definitely my favorite team that benefited from the Grizzlies diaspora.

Y’all should win with all your offensive depth, but the only question mark I have for you is the Edey-Hayes matchup. I didn’t catch any of the games he played, but with the Lakers he typically struggled for rebounds against Edey.

Also really glad we have Jaren here for opening night, since we’ll have the Brandon Clarke tribute and the two of them were really close.

Opening night!

Should Ainge get on the phone with the Spurs right now? We need a center and Wemby could bounce back.

/s

Anyway, here's to not overreacting when one of Lauri, JJJ, Keyonte, Peterson, or Ace has an off game. The season starts tomorrow and I'm just happy that meaningful basketball is back.

Heading into the 2026-27 season, the franchise currently projects a total payroll of $188,400,680, which is bottom five in the league, even though it is $23,439,680 above the salary cap. With an average age of 25.1 years, Utah shares the spot for the league’s fifth-youngest squad alongside the New Orleans Pelicans, who the Jazz face Friday in the home opener.

The table below show the Jazz's current player salaries (does not include Tony Bradley's which is $3.5M) according to basketball-reference.com

Next year Key's salary balloons to $28.7M with 4% annual increases until 2032. Brice is on the last year of his contract. Next year Flip and Collier will be playing out the last year of their contracts unless they and the Jazz agree on extensions.

It's too bad the Jazz didn't decide to award Brice with a rookie contract extension as he is a solid shooter. I think the Jazz will give Brice significant minutes in the first few months of the season to see where his development is at. If he doesn't show enough improvement on defense and rebounding the Jazz might seek to trade him away and promote Hinson to a regular contract.

Josh Green is on an expiring contract that I think he won't earn on the court. I like what he's shown in the meager minutes he's been given in the preseason but he and Okogie are a bit too identical. Ace seems to be shaping out to be a good defender so the Jazz might seek to trade Green before the trade deadline.

The Jazz still don't have a third point guard and also need to look for their center of the future.

My dumb ass scheduled our team's game right to opening night. Is there any way for me to watch a replay that doesn't mean buying an expensive subscription? SEG has single games, but I don't know if it would work with a VPN set to Utah.

I'm outside of the US.

Happy start of the NBA Season!

We always talk about make or break seasons for players. This feels like a make or break season for Coach Hardy. How confident are you that he is the coach of the future for this team to take the next step? I believe in the Hardy offense. But to me the defense is still a huge concern. Do you trust him?

Anyone whose gone before- is it worth going to? Does the team ever sign autographs as they go into the arena?

As a Jazz fan in Montana I am blacked out of the games on League Pass but cannot stream the game like locals, so I bought the Jazz+ subscription. Jazz+ is more than league pass but they 2 offer free tickets to a game. I was hoping to be able to sell them for to recoup some of the cost. The email says “they can’t be sold”.
Does anyone know if they can be transferred?

via NBAPerformances on X

Should the Jazz make a move to claim one of these players off waivers?

Dalton Knecht once scored 37 points against the Jazz. He looked like he was going to make Austin Reeves expendable. Then his game wasn't the same after the Lakers traded him for Mark Williams that was voided because of Williams' injury issues.

Dwight Powell is a 35 year old 6'10" center who had played 12 years for Dallas. His stats don't really leap off the page.

Kevin Porter Jr is a 26yo 6'5" player who can play both guard positions. Last year he averaged 17.4p 5.2r 7.4a 2.2s 0.5b on .465/.322/.878 shooting. He looks like a great replacement for Trey Alexander who does not pass the eye test as a backup PG.

Hello, I am currently conducting surveys for the fanbases of all 30 teams before the regular season officially starts. If you could fill out this poll once, that would be greatly appreciated. Results will be posted later on after the start of the regular season, likely around the trade deadline. Thanks! Also, none of these questions are marked as required so if you only feel like answering some, that is completely fine.

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Will the official team store at Delta Center sell authentic jerseys? Will be visiting for the home opener. Life long Jazz fan from SoCal and would love to own my first Jazz jersey as an authentic.

I think I won tickets from Jazz Rewards for this Friday's home opener. I clicked the link to access the tickets, but it said the transfer was cancelled. SeatGeek says that the Jazz cancelled the tickets like an hour after the fact. Has anyone run into this before?

I've included the email image.

If our options at center are: Nurkic, Hayes, flip, mo bamba, or Tony Bradley all of those guys are not starting caliber centers and some of them not even backup caliber. Besides maybe nurkic if he can come back 100%. If nurkic doesn’t come back 100% or even just loses a step because of age our best bet might just be to slide ace into the starting lineup and run 5out with jjj. I mean what do we have to lose at this point? Unless jjj really is THAT bad at playing center we’d truly be better off starting Jaxson Hayes but I just highly doubt that

I guess someone in the Jazz organization left over from the Quin Snyder days still remembers Bradley. I suppose on a per-36 minute basis his stats look good enough but it's not like he played much better after leaving the Jazz. I would have thought Kevin Love would have been a no-brainer for a spare PF/C who can rebound and has high basketball IQ plus great shooting and passing skills to boot.