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
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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.