SALT LAKE CITY — The 140ish recent earthquakes that have gotten the south end of the Salt Lake Valley all shook up didn’t compare to the rumbling around Jazzland on Monday night.
All the excitement and enjoyment of consecutive wins over two of the NBA’s best teams — Denver and Milwaukee — came crumbling down after the Jazz blew a 17-point lead in a home loss to a New Orleans Pelicans team whose not-so-distant future likely includes the lottery and an Anthony Davis bidding war and not the playoffs.
"That’s the difference between the 2 seed and a 5 seed," one Jazz fan wrote on Twitter.