Basketball is officially back in the Salt Lake Valley. Utah Jazz training camp tipped off this week and the team’s first preseason game is in just three days time. Despite incurring key losses over the summer, the Jazz have high expectations of themselves following what was a breakthrough season.
The Jazz didn’t just crack the 50-win mark and return to the playoffs in 2016-17. They won a Northwest Division on the rise as well. It was the ninth time in franchise history — and the first in nearly a decade — that they were able to hang the proverbial banner.