With the dust of a wild trade deadline settled, the Jazz tank rolls into the desert to face the Phoenix Suns, who are much like their namesake this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere—not very hot and somewhat unlikely to burn you. They enter tonight’s game 1-4 in their last ten games and 5-5 in their last ten. The Jazz are 2-3 in their last 5 and 2-8 in their last 10. In other words, we have a stoppable force meeting a movable object tonight.
The Suns will likely be without their aging—but still very dangerous—star, Kevin Durant, who is listed as day-to-day with an ankle injury.