THE WASATCH FRONT — Some of the highlights from the past 24 hours in sports and social media have come from our own backyard.

Here's an all-locals edition of things we loved this week.

NBA trade deadline occupier

What do you get when you combine the NBA trade deadline with frantic winds in the Salt Lake Valley?

An oblivious husband, in the case of Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey.

That's Lindsey's wife, Becky, who posted the photo on Twitter after her husband had already departed for the office Thursday morning, the final day of the trade season for NBA teams.

To his credit, Lindsey had a lot on his mind — the Jazz brought in Atlanta point guard Shelvin Mack to re-join former Butler teammate Gordon Hayward in Utah.

Now Lindsey can turn his attention to other things, like that tree. Anybody have a chainsaw?

Wolverines celebrate game-winner with … water balloons?

Utah Valley head basketball coach Mark Pope hasn't had as much success as he'd like during his first season with the Wolverines.

So when Marcel Davis hit a game-winner in the closing seconds to give UVU a 74-72 victory over Chicago State at the UCCU Center on Thursday night, he had to celebrate.

How did he do it? With post-game water balloons, caught on camera by KSL Sports.

UVU president Matt Holland was also in the locker room, and his reaction was a little more tempered than Pope.

"I heard there might be water balloons, and a little bit of cussing, but we're here anyways," Holland said.

The Cougars are just 4-24 overall and 0-11 in Western Athletic Conference play. But the Wolverines (11-15, 5-6 WAC) are celebrating every win they can scrape out of Pope's first season as a Division I head coach.

Konner Frey had 14 points, and Davis and Ivory Young each finished with 12 for Utah Valley, which hosts Missouri-Kansas City at 7 p.m. Saturday night.

Joel Bolomboy dunks a lot

Weber State downed Big Sky-trailing Southern Utah, 87-83 in Cedar City on Thursday night. But that wasn't as remarkable as the Wildcats' all-time leading rebounder and blocker dunking on the Thunderbirds.

On second thought, maybe it wasn't remarkable. Because that's what Joel Bolomboy, who averages a double-double, has been doing for four years in Ogden.

Here is more of the same.

Bolomboy finished with a career-high 34 points and 10 rebounds in the win. Jeremy Senglin added 15 for the Wildcats.

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