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Monson: Jazz trading for Mike Conley edges them toward real NBA championship contention

And the Jazz are substantially better today than they were last season and the season before and the season before that.

With the West wide open, with a point guard of Conley’s capabilities, having lost none of their key components in the deal, the Jazz might even make the Western Conference finals — or go beyond — led by an exciting backcourt of Conley and Donovan Mitchell.

Remember how Mitchell and Rudy Gobert talked, long before this move, about winning a championship? They’ll talk more now.

Let’s beam up on the big-screens in our brains for a moment this image — Conley working the pick and roll with Gobert and others.