SALT LAKE CITY -- — Lauri Markkanen scored a career-high 51 points, the first Jazz player to reach 50 in the regular season since Karl Malone in 1998, and Utah beat the Phoenix Suns 138-134 in overtime on Monday night.

They shipped off multiple contributing veterans to get younger, added more budding young pieces, but also inexperienced pieces, and coming off a 17-win season in a daunting Western Conference, their win-loss record could look relatively similar to what they put together across their most recent campaign.

But where exactly did the Jazz star fit into the top 100, and how far did he drop? After coming into the 33rd spot within ESPN's NBA Rank entering last season, Markkanen found himself ten spots lower before this year, coming in as the 43rd-best player in ...

ESPN College GameDay officially announced its next show, which will air before the BYU game at Texas Tech.For the second week in a row, a Utah school will be fe

This article was originally published on www.si.com/nba/jazz as Utah Jazz’s Walker Kessler Earns Intriguing Extension Projection. Throughout the most recent NBA offseason, the Utah Jazz have had the challenging dilemma of deciding whether or not to extend their fourth-year big man and center of the future, Walker Kessler.

Draymond Green told the Golden State Warriors not to trade for Utah Jazz star Lauri Markkanen. “I’m a big fan of [Markkanen’s] game,” Green said, via Anthony Slater of ESPN.