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Morning links: Jazz crack top 5 in ESPN Power Rankings; Lillard carries Blazers on second-half surge

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Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder directs his team during the first half in an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans Monday, March 6, 2017, in Salt Lake City.

In his latest NBA Power Rankings for ESPN, Marc Stein had the Utah Jazz moving up two spots to No. 5.

After talking about Utah's rough road trip, he wrote, "There is also growing concern in the SLC that neither Derrick Favors nor Rodney Hood will be able to shake the knee injuries that have plagued them; all season in Favors' case and for the past two months in Hood's.