Record: 25-25 Though Utah is just a game up on the Portland Trail Blazers for the eighth spot in the Western Conference playoffs, simulations using ESPN's Basketball Power Index show the Jazz as a heavy favorite to land a playoff spot. In fact, Utah ends up winning more games on average than the seventh-place Houston Rockets and as many as the Dallas Mavericks, currently in sixth. The Jazz's plus-1.5 point differential is better than those of Houston (minus-1.4), Dallas (minus-0.9) and even the fifth-place Memphis Grizzlies (minus-1.
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Holiday or Teague a better trade fit for Jazz?
