Former Jazzman and 14-year NBA veteran Boris Diaw has announced his retirement from basketball. Diaw spent last season as a member of the Levallois Metropolitans of the LNB Pro A league in his native France.
After a fantastic 2016-17 season that saw the Utah Jazz win a first round playoff series over the Oklahoma City Thunder, and send the whole sporting world into a Donovan Mitchell-crazed frenzy, the team has quite a lot of expectations going into next season.
After long-time San Antonio Spurs great Manu Ginobili announced his retirement, several Utah Jazz players took to social to give their appreciation and best wishes.
Other than adding former Duke star Grayson Allen in the draft, the Jazz will make another run with mostly the same roster as last season, re-signing Derrick Favors, Raul Neto and Dante Exum while retaining the rights to Thabo Sefalosha.
Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell spoke to students at an invitation-only assembly at Kearns High School to reward them for their high academic performance.
