Author Archives: Jody Genessy
It’s official: Utah Jazz players Gordon Hayward and Derrick Favors will participate in the 2013 USA Basketball Men’s National Team Mini-Camp that will take place in Las Vegas from July 22-25. Former Weber State star Damian Lillard will also be … Continue reading
As the Utah Jazz beat writer, my job duties entail traveling wherever the team goes. In any given week, I could be in California’s state capital playing about as many minutes as The Jimmer, writing stories with the Laverne & … Continue reading
Remember that funny story about Big Al’s big bed? Yeah, of course you do. My wife does, too. The biggest thing she got out of that silliness about Jefferson’s 10-foot-by-12-foot kingdom-sized bed was that our queen-sized mattress set is about two … Continue reading
If you’re a Utah Jazz fan, by now you’ve probably heard about the P3 facility in Santa Barbara, Calif. It’s a high-tech performance lab that has a relationship with the Jazz. This past offseason, for instance, 12 Jazz players spent … Continue reading
The NBA will make an announcement on Wednesday that isn’t likely to help Al Jefferson’s and Paul Millsap’s bid to become All-Stars this season. The All-Star ballot will no longer have one spot for a center and two forward positions … Continue reading
As somebody who works at a newspaper, a lot of stuff ends up in my inbox. Complaint emails. An occasional compliment. Article suggestions. PR pitches. Links to other people’s work. Spam. Messages from my editors that I treat like spam. … Continue reading
The results of the annual NBA general manager survey is out, and it seems that the Utah Jazz are flying well under 29 executives’ radars. All 30 GMs participated in NBA.com’s extensive questionnaire, and Jazz players got about as much … Continue reading
Alec Burks has made it known for some time that he wants to dethrone his teammate and buddy, Jeremy Evans, as the NBA’s Slam Dunk champion. The athletic leaper hooked up with roster hopeful Chris Quinn for one of the … Continue reading
While the Jazz worked out behind closed doors Monday morning at the ritzy Olympic Club in downtown San Francisco, something caught my attention in the weight room down the hall. Some 2,250 miles away from the school’s Indianapolis campus, an … Continue reading
The Utah Jazz will get a welcomed break from the rigors of two-a-day training tonight. The Jazz, who’ve had five practices in the past 2-1/2 days of camp, will attend the USC-Utah game at Rice-Eccles Stadium as a team. The … Continue reading