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Jazz to honor late coach Jerry Sloan with patch on jerseys

Jazz to honor late coach Jerry Sloan with patch on jerseys

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Jazz will honor Hall of Fame coach Jerry Sloan by wearing a patch on their team jerseys and warmups when the NBA season restarts in Orlando, Florida. The patch features the number “1223,” which was the amount of total wins for Sloan in his 23 […]

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AP source: NBA owners approve 22-team season restart plan

AP source: NBA owners approve 22-team season restart plan

SEACAUCUS, N.J. (AP)-A person with knowledge of the situation says the NBA’s Board of Governors has approved a 22-team format for restarting the league season in late July at the Disney campus near Orlando, Florida. The format calls for each team playing eight games to determine playoff seeding plus the […]

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Long-time Utah Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan Passes Away At 78

Long-time Utah Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan Passes Away At 78

SALT LAKE CITY-Friday morning, numerous sources reported former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan passed away at  78. He passed away from complications from Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. The Jazz released a statement on Sloan, stating that he will always be synonymous with the franchise. The franchise expressed their […]

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Utah Jazz Loses Bojan Bogdanovic To Season-Ending Wrist Injury; Walt Perrin To Be Hired By Knicks

Utah Jazz Loses Bojan Bogdanovic To Season-Ending Wrist Injury; Walt Perrin To Be Hired By Knicks

SALT LAKE CITY-Monday, per a report from ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski, whenever the NBA’s season resumes, the Utah Jazz will have to do without one of their most important players. Wojnarowski confirmed that Jazz small forward Bojan Bogdanovic is lost for the season as he will undergo wrist surgery. […]

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Utah Jazz Welcome Players Back To Practice

Utah Jazz Welcome Players Back To Practice

SALT LAKE CITY-Monday, the Utah Jazz welcomed players back to the Zions Bank Basketball Campus, the squad announced. Friday, the NBA began to allow teams to open their practice facilities for the first time since March 11. The league was shuttered after Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19. […]

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NBA training facilities to begin to reopen Friday

NBA training facilities to begin to reopen Friday

MIAMI (AP) — NBA players will be allowed to return to team training facilities starting Friday, provided that their local governments do not have a stay-at-home order prohibiting such movement still in place as part of the response to the coronavirus pandemic. This could be big news for Utah Jazz […]

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Utah Jazz Lays Off Staff Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Utah Jazz Lays Off Staff Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

SALT LAKE CITY-Friday, per announcements from the Salt Lake City-based Larry H. Miller Group of Companies confirmed it was laying off employees from some of its 80 companies, including the NBA’s Utah Jazz. These statements were confirmed by ESPN NBA analyst Adrian Wojnarowski in a series of tweets Friday. The […]

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MLB allows players to leave after canceling spring training

MLB allows players to leave after canceling spring training

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Major League Baseball is allowing players to go home, making the decision a day after canceling the rest of the spring training schedule and postponing opening day by at least two weeks amid the novel  COVID-19, or coronavirus, outbreak. After a meeting in Arizona on Friday […]

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Emergency declaration triggers Oklahoma’s price-gouging law

Emergency declaration triggers Oklahoma’s price-gouging law

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump’s declaration Friday of a national emergency over the new coronavirus triggered an Oklahoma law that prohibits price-gouging, the state’s attorney general said. Attorney General Mike Hunter said the law prohibits an increase of more than 10% in the price of goods or services […]

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Jazz stars Mitchell, Gobert test positive; Gobert apologizes

Jazz stars Mitchell, Gobert test positive; Gobert apologizes

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz confirmed Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, publicly saying that he is personally dealing with the pandemic that has temporarily shut down the NBA and other major sports leagues. Later, his Jazz teammate Rudy Gobert — the first […]

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