On Monday night the Minnesota Timberwolves were trying to play spoiler to the playoff hopes of the Utah Jazz. The Wolves were ultimately unsuccessful in that attempt, falling to Utah 96-80. In the losing effort, though, Luke Ridnour connected with Derrick Williams for the possible play of the night in the ... Read More

Utah Jazz forward Jeremy Evans has competed in the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest the past two All-Star Weekends, winning the contest in 2012. However, he rarely sees the floor for the Jazz, averaging less than 10 minutes per game. On Monday night as the Jazz were blowing out the Portland Trail ... Read More

      As the official statistician of MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, and the WNBA the Elias Sports Bureau provides a look into sports that goes beyond the home run saving grabs, made-for-highlight-reel stiffarms, and ankle breaking crossovers. They sift through the streaks, trends, and numbers to often provide us with interesting and little known bits of information about our ... Read More

Blake Griffin proved on Saturday night that he doesn’t have to be dunking on someone to put up a highlight. Against the Utah Jazz, Griffin showed off his unreal athleticism on this and-one layup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN3Nfe67jRU Blake was definitely looking to put Paul Millsap in the same category as Timofey Mozgov and Kendrick Perkins. However, ... Read More

  Heading into Saturday's NBA Slam Dunk Contest James "Flight" White was the favorite of many to walk off with the hardware, in part because he's done things like this in the past. The field also included last year's winner, Jeremy Evans. Gerald Green, and his ridiculous bounce, couldn't be counted ... Read More

  In a crowded Utah Jazz frontcourt containing Al Jefferson, Paul Millsap, and Marvin Williams third-year man Derrick Favors has been steadily making his case to head coach Tyrone Corbin for increased minutes. Through 21 games Favors is averaging 9.1 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 1.8 blocked shots, all career-highs. He added to ... Read More

It's only preseason, but this block and dunk combination pulled off by Utah Jazz forward Jeremy Evans on Clippers big man Ronny Turiaf might be the early hoops play of the year: http://youtu.be/yRUnf3IlbT8 That's what you call a NBA-style facial. Evans made Turiaf a victim of one of the worst sequences a ... Read More

Cleaning house Shortly after agreeing to trade shooting guard Joe Johnson to the Nets, the Atlanta Hawks dealt forward Marvin Williams to the Utah Jazz for PG Devin Harris. Both Williams and Devin Harris are owed about $8 million for next season ($8.3 mil to Williams, $8.5 for Harris) but Harris's ... Read More