The Utah Jazz are a curious case in the greater mixing bowl of the NBA. They’re now belly-deep into a rebuild that began 2 seasons ago when the new CEO of basketball operations scanned his team and firmly declared, “Hold my non-alcoholic beverage” before tearing down their Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell All-Star core to start over from scratch.
The landscape of the NBA is typically broken into three equal, yet distinct sections. Not all NBA teams are created equal, and as every season commences, we find teams across the league begin to filter into 3 divisions.