A husk of a Utah Jazz team has traveled to the Great White North to play a game known as “basketball”

The Utah Jazz (28-10) put on some heroics in a road win over the Nuggets, playing their sixth game in nine days, four of them on the road in San Antonio, Portland, New Orleans, and Denver. It looks like this has lead to some serious wear and tear as the Jazz start a brutal Eastern Conference road trip against the Toronto Raptors (18-17) (Pacers Saturday, Pistons Monday). Seriously - check out these two tweets:

Jazz injury report continued 2/2:

OUT - Joe Ingles (Health & Safety Protocols)
OUT - Rudy Gobert (Health & Safety Protocols)
OUT - Mike Conley (Right Knee Injury Recovery)
OUT - Bojan Bogdanovic (Left Middle Finger Sprain)
OUT - Donovan Mitchell (Left Low Back Strain)— Andy Larsen (@andyblarsen) January 6, 2022

It totally makes sense that even “load management” let alone lingering injury would put some of the Jazz players on the bench.