The Utah Jazz will host the Charlotte Hornets at the Delta Center tonight. This will be the Jazz’s first game in exactly a week, with the All-Star break now wrapped up. Now begins the final stretch for the playoffs that could go either way for the Jazz.
Both the Jazz and the Hornets entered the All-Star break, having only won three of their last seven games each. Strangely, though, the Hornets went into the break on a high having won three straight despite only having 13 wins on the year total. On the other hand, the Jazz entered the break with a bitter taste, on a four-game losing streak and watching themselves tumble down the Western Conference standings all the way out of the play-in tournament.