“While it hasn’t been a perfect summer — most notably Dante’s injury — it’s been a good summer with the things that we can control.”
SALT LAKE CITY — As expected, there were a lot of positive pronouncements made Monday when the Utah Jazz endured their annual media day ritual, which signifies the beginning of training camp.
The players, as players so often do, claim to be in tiptop shape, including Trey Burke who shed about 10 unnecessary pounds and was lauded by management for making impressive offseason improvement.
They say they’ve put on muscle, including an estimated 10-20 pounds by power forward Derrick Favors and a noticeable upper-body gain by center Rudy Gobert.