The first Marc Stein NBA Power Rankings were released on ESPN yesterday. The Utah Jazz are ranked 7th after being ranked 15th at the end of last year. Here’s what the Stein had to say about the Utah Jazz.
Folks tend to forget just how consistently good Utah was for the better part of two decades with that Karl Malone-John Stockton-Jerry Sloan foundation, but I'm not sure I've ever been more intrigued by a Jazz team than this one. Adding Joe Johnson, Boris Diaw and George Hill, along with a healed Dante Exum, to what the Jazz already had makes them the scariest of the West's up-and-comers.