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Photo by Bart Young/NBAE via Getty Images Tonight, the Utah Jazz (48-18) take on the Denver Nuggets (44-22) in a game where both teams are playing short-handed. For Utah, both Donovan Mitchell (ankle) and Mike Conley (hamstring) are still out. With the season coming to a close, the Jazz are obviously going to be very cautious with their heath so that come playoff time, these injuries don’t linger. On Denver’s side, they’ve unfortunately been hit with the injury-bug as a of late. Jamal Murray is out for the season with a torn ACL, both Monte Morris and Will Barton are suffering lingeri...

Nicholas Burman , April 3rd, 2021 09:26 While Robert Crumb’s style and dedication to his generation’s underground comix artists has inspired a huge array of artists from a variety of backgrounds and of numerous identities, for decades his depictions and framing of women and his adoption of racist stereotypes have been under fire Crumb’s World, 2021. Photo by Alex Casto. Courtesy of David Zwirner Books In 2016 Fantagraphics, who have republished much of Crumb’s work, released a book about its own history titled We Told You So: Comics as Art, and the appearance of Crumb’s work in the...

Photo by Bart Young/NBAE via Getty Images Just a couple weeks removed from the 20-1 stretch of games where a loss was nigh unfathomable, the Jazz have lost 4 of their last 6 games. Over that stretch Utah has allowed a 116.1 ORTG to opponents, a mark that would 27th for the season. Furthermore, Jazz are allowing 55.3% eFG to opponents in those 6 games, a mark that would rank 25th for the season. Utah’s defensive plan of forcing inefficient looks has wilted of late with the team ranking 22nd in location eFG% on defense. Rudy Gobert challenges Jordan Poole in the paint Sunday afternoon

Photo by Fernando Medina/NBAE via Getty Images Most things have gone extremely well for the Jazz this season. Continuity, health, experience, and refined strategies have all aided in a blistering hot start to the season that’s carried Utah to a 27-7 record with just two games left in the first half schedule: @NOP and @PHI. While important to be self-aware and self-critical for continuous improvement, there’s not much to nitpick, frankly. Here how the Jazz measure up to highly correlated metrics of team talent and success: Point Differential: +12.6 (1st) per CleaningTheGlass eFG% Advantage...

Photo by Bart Young/NBAE via Getty Images Thank you for participating in this week’s SB Nation NBA Reacts survey if you haven’t already. Here are the results for this week’s questions. If you haven’t signed up for SB Nation Reacts, please do so here! Fan confidence nearly doubles for second consecutive week SB Nation In our Feb. 25 survey results, 35 percent of Washington Wizards fan participants said they were confident in the team, which is nearly double the 19 percent in the previous survey on Feb. 19. Doubling fan confidence isn’t hard when the baseline was just 10 percent back ...