SALT LAKE CITY — When the Utah Jazz went ahead by 23 points in the second half and a run-away victory seemed inevitable, it’s plausible that Hot Rod Hundley was warning anybody who’d listen in the Big Broadcast Booth in the Sky that the refrigerator door had not been closed yet.
The Jazz were, after all, playing against the pesky Timberwolves, as the Hall of Fame broadcaster used to call them (and hopefully still does).
Despite Minnesota being pestiferous, pestilent, peeving and, of course, full of peskiness in the fourth quarter, the Jazz escaped this Northwest Division showdown with a 106-102 win at Vivint Arena.