Tonight, in the midst of fresh trade deadline updates, tweets, reddit threads, angry facebook group posts, and expert analysis, a basketball game broke out. And it was a pretty entertaining one, even though the Warriors put a sabot round into the Utah tank. Both teams were short-handed, with Golden State missing Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Shröder, and Kyle Anderson and Utah’s missing players headlined by Lauri Markkanen and Taylor Hendricks. The game was full of peaks and valleys for the Jazz, but a furious 4th-quarter rally helped them erase a 10 point deficit and take the lead.
First Quarter
The Jazz came out of the gate red-hot, with Jordan Clarkson scoring early and often:
early game flame?