Enes Kanter News

To go back to Yucca Man's Downbeat yesterday about toughness, jazzpatty and I both felt that the kind of toughness we'd like to see is more "standing up for your teammate" than retaliating with a flagrant/trying to thuggily break someone's neck/throwing a punch and running away.

It is time to look to next season, with hopes for an even more successful one. But a good team must have a good starting five, so here is my prediction of the Jazz starters for next season.

The real NBA Finals are about to begin as the two teams playing the best basketball on the planet meet in the West, starting Sunday.

While the teams still in the NBA Playoffs grind toward the 2012 NBA Finals, Utah Jazz fans are thinking of two things right now: free agency and the draft.

Utah Jazz Statistics BONUS: How many minutes do Al Jefferson, Paul Millsap, and Derrick Favors need for "Half-a-Karl"? The sad thing about using Karl Malone as a measuring stick for your current players is that, well, he makes your current players look really bad.

A quick flip of a coin effectively dashed the Utah Jazz ' hopes of nabbing a first-round draft pick in the upcoming 2012 NBA Draft .

Fifteen months after retiring, Hall of Fame coach Jerry Sloan's name has come up again, this time as a potential replacement in Orlando or Charlotte.

Of course, for Utah fans, this isn't anything surprising. We've gotten used to the fact that the world doesn't talk about them much when their winning either.

This Dec. 27, 2011 file photo shows Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Blake, center, shooting between Utah Jazz forwards Paul Millsap, left, and Enes Kanter , of Turkey, during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles.

Evan Hall : A Gordon Hayward. During the push for the playoffs, Hayward was theA best player on the team.

Because of yesterday's mini-blow up I thought this would be interesting to do. First of all, we know that the Rocky Mountain Review is gone, and it would have been the first choice.

What a season and in my opinion an awesome season. Lock out, no training camp, young team, young coach and so many things up in the air.

Both LA teams were taken to the brink, but found a way to win their respective Game 7s and move on to the second round to face much tougher opponents.

Jazz vs Raps, which team would you rather be as of now? The HQ's Sean Tepper takes a look and gives his thoughts... In fact the club has averaged 32 wins over the last four seasons and with win totals of 33, 40, 22 and 23, it's pretty hard to say there's been much trending towards a future playoff birth.

Utah Jazz guard Alec Burks, center attempts to score against San Antonio Spurs center Tim Duncan and power forward Matt Bonner during the second half of Game 3 in the first-round NBA basketball playoff series, Saturday, May 5, 2012, in Salt Lake City.

The Salt Lake Tribune) Jazz head coach Tyrone Corbin speaks to the media during locker clean-out day Tuesday, May 8, 2012, at EnergySolutions Arena.

Utah Jazz rookies Alec Burks and Enes Kanter restored a long-time team tradition on "locker cleanout day." They made the journey from EnergySolutions Arena to nearby Crown Burgers for an extensive takeout order to treat their teammates to burgers, fries and drinks.

Salt Lake Tribune Paul Millsap looks for the pass as San Antonio's Tim Duncan defends in game 4 of the first round of the playoffs at Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, May 7, 2012.

The Utah Jazz were hoping they could " shock the world'' with an upset of the top-seeded Spurs yet now acknowledge surviving the first-round Western Conference series would be to " rewrite history." " We want to get it done,'' Spurs forward Tim Duncan said Sunday after a short practice.

May 5, 2012; Salt Lake City, UT, USA; Utah Jazz center Enes Kanter poses for a photo with two young Jazz fans prior to game three against the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference quarterfinals of the 2012 NBA Playoffs at EnergySolutions Arena.