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The NBA preseason schedule should give the Utah Jazz some high-level tests.
True, no Utah Jazz team has reached the NBA Finals since the franchise’s only two appearances in 1997 and 1998, ending in losses to the Chicago Bulls.
And the latest squad in Salt Lake City did little to quiet the skeptics by turning the league’s outright best record into yet another playoff catastrophe. This time, of course, the disaster was a blown 2-0 advantage in the Western Conference Semifinals via four straight losses to the No.