SALT LAKE CITY — When the Utah Jazz announced their 2017-18 schedule back in August, the lone Boston Celtics home game was circled on the calendar for obvious reasons.
For starters, the Jazz were fresh off the Gordon Hayward heartbreak, so the regular-season contest was to mark his return to Salt Lake City.
For two, it was a nationally televised game on ESPN, and Jazz center Rudy Gobert loves those.
“When the schedule comes out you just look and see how many TV games we got. I was like ‘one, two, three, four. OK. League pass, league pass it,’” Gobert said, scrolling down an imaginary list.