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Utah Jazz look to gain the upper hand in the NBA draft using technology and statistical modeling

SALT LAKE CITY — In an unprecedented time, NBA executives are hard at work preparing for a draft with an unknown date.

Draft preparation is an ongoing and year-round effort in the NBA and it hasn’t stopped just because the NBA season has been suspended.

Under the guidance of Utah Jazz vice president of player personnel Walt Perrin, the Jazz brass is attempting to look at this hiatus from the season as an opportunity rather than a hinderance.

“The health performance group provides physical assessments and our scouting consultants, led by Walt Perrin, have been doing a bunch of very interesting projects,” Dennis Lindsey, Jazz executive vice president of basketball operations, said Tuesday.