SALT LAKE CITY — Can you feel the excitement in the air? It’s NBA playoff time, even if it is 100 degrees outside here while the Utah Jazz are a couple thousand miles across the country.
The Jazz are getting ready to take on their Rockies rivals, the Denver Nuggets, Monday in Orlando. It’s the matchup the Jazz hoped for, playing a team they have pretty much dominated over the years, winning 115 of 198 games, nearly 60 percent of the time.
No one on the Jazz ever came right out and said it, but it seemed pretty obvious the Nuggets were the team the Jazz wanted to face in the first round of the playoffs, seeing how they tanked just enough games to finish a half game out of the No.