SALT LAKE CITY — Are the Utah Jazz approaching 'team to hate' status?
The Ringer's Haley O'Shaughnessy believes so.
O'Shaughnessy called the Jazz one of the best teams in the NBA on both sides of the ball with their offseason moves to bring Mike Conley, Bojan Bogdanovic and Ed Davis to Salt Lake City.
That wasn't the end of flattering phrases from O'Shaughnessy, who also said "the franchise’s future is even brighter than it was during any of Gordon Hayward’s seven years with the franchise."
The article took it a step further, saying in assessing Utah's offseason moves, three questions will need to be answered — among them the potential of the team's backcourt, the last Jazz offseason this productive and the last time Utah was in the running to be Western Conference favorites.