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SALT LAKE CITY — At one point, the Utah Jazz were on the way to another lottery-bound season, a non-playoff team reeling from offseason departures of Gordon Hayward and others, with a young core that included rookie Donovan Mitchell and an injured Rudy Gobert.
But how things change.
Just over two weeks removed from the Jazz’s second-round end to the season at the hands of the West’s top-seeded Houston Rockets, Utah is brimming with optimism with the emergence of all-rookie Mitchell and defensive player of the year candidate Gobert — not to mention the strong supporting cast led by the career renaissance of sharpshooter Joe Ingles.
Before moving ahead to the NBA draft, free agency and building on a top-four finish in the conference, click the video above … and for the last time this season, let’s rewind.
