SALT LAKE CITY — From glitter to gold, irrelevance to relevancy, the Utah Jazz’s roller coaster season seems to be a script made for Hollywood.
Not only are fans in Utah paying attention to the red-hot team, the Jazz have caught the attention of the NBA’s elite. So much so, that Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr called the turnaround “one of the best stories of the year in the NBA.”
“There’s a lot of subplots to that,” Kerr said during Tuesday’s shootaround. “Donovan (Mitchell) playing as well as he has, a possible Rookie of the Year; Quin (Snyder) doing an amazing job and he will for sure be right up there in the Coach of the Year race but I think they’re probably, I would say the biggest surprise of all the teams.