SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz are a top-10 team.
No. 9 to be exact.
That is where the Jazz stand in ESPN’s latest NBA Power Rankings, which were compiled by a group of national sportswriters following the craziness that was the opening weeks of NBA free agency.
Among the group of writers were Malika Andrews, Kevin Arnovitz, Tim Bontemps, Tim MacMahon, Royce Young and Ohm Youngmisuk, but it was MacMahon who took a Jazz-centric view.
His opinion? Utah is a “bona fide contender.”
“The Jazz might be equally as good offensively and defensively, which would make Utah a bona fide contender,” MacMahon wrote.