Brooklyn Nets at Utah Jazz: TV info, live stream, injury report

The Brooklyn Nets make their annual visit to Salt Lake City Saturday night when they look to salvage a season split against the Utah Jazz.

The Brooklyn Nets will be looking for their first win in Salt Lake City in more than three years when they take on the Utah Jazz at Vivint Smart Home Arena on Saturday night.

The Nets (36-34) slid back to seventh place in the Eastern Conference Friday night after the Detroit Pistons stopped their two-game skid with a 111-97 win at home over the Los Angeles Lakers.

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The Jazz (39-29) are percentage points ahead of the LA Clippers in seventh place in the West, but trail the sixth-place San Antonio Spurs by just a half-game.

Brooklyn hasn’t won at Utah since a 98-96 win on Feb. 27, 2016, and has lost four of its last five meetings and seven of nine against the Jazz.

The Nets opened their seven-game road trip on Wednesday with a 108-96 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. On Thursday, Utah cruised to a 120-100 victory at home over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Brooklyn jumped out to a 17-point lead in the first half before the Thunder closed the lane in the second half and got their offense going, outscoring the Nets 66-44 after the break. Brooklyn trailed 88-87 with 7:40 to go before OKC closed the game with a 20-9 burst.

Spencer Dinwiddie led the Nets with 25 points. Ed Davis had 11 rebounds and D’Angelo Russell went for 14 points, seven assists and three steals.

The Jazz dominated the Timberwolves on Thursday, getting ahead early and finishing strong, leading by as much as 24 in the fourth quarter.

Donovan Mitchell paced Utah with 24 points and also had six assists. Rudy Gobert finished with 10 points, 13 rebounds and two blocks, Derrick Favors had 17 points, 11 boards and two blocks, Joe Ingles logged 12 points, eight assists and two blocks and Ricky Rubio also had eight dimes.

Since coming into the NBA from the old ABA in 1976, the Nets are 31-58 against the Jazz. Utah has the series’ longest winning streak, putting together 12 in a row from Jan. 28, 1995, to Nov. 28, 2000. The Nets took four straight from Dec. 17, 2003, to Nov. 9, 2005.

To find the highest-scoring game of the series, you have to go back to Nov. 21, 1978, when the New Orleans Jazz beat the New Jersey Nets 140-118 at the Louisiana Superdome. The Nets posted a 138-129 overtime win at Salt Lake City on Jan. 26, 1982.

In regulation play, the Nets high mark came in a 137-96 win on Feb. 14, 1980, at Piscataway which is also the most lopsided outcome of the series. Utah’s biggest win came at Salt Lake City on Nov. 27, 1989, in a 105-68 victory.

Individually, Truck Robinson has the high game of the series with 51 points for New Orleans in that Nov. 21, 1978, affair. The Nets got their best game in the series from Bubbles Hawkins, who had 44 points in a win at Nassau Coliseum over the Jazz on Feb. 9, 1977.

Since moving to Brooklyn in 2012, the Nets are 4-9 against Utah, which has two three-game winning streaks in that span, most recently from Jan. 2-Nov. 11, 2017. Brooklyn has back-to-back wins just once, on Nov. 5, 2013, and Feb. 19, 2014.

The Nets have the highest scoring game of the series, a 118-107 win at Barclays Center on Nov. 17, 2017. Utah’s best came in a 116-107 victory at Salt Lake City on March 30, 2013.

The Jazz have the biggest blowout of the Brooklyn era, a 108-73 win at Salt Lake City on Jan. 24, 2015. Brooklyn’s biggest win was a 104-88 triumph at Barclays Center on Nov. 5, 2013.

The best individual scoring performance was posted by George Hill, who had 34 points for the Jazz in a March 3, 2017, win at Salt Lake City.

Brook Lopez scored 27 points for Brooklyn in a March 30, 2013, loss at Salt Lake City and matched it in a win at Barclays Center on Nov. 5, 2013. Joe Johnson dropped 27 for the Nets in a win at Salt Lake City on Feb. 19, 2014.

*-Historical research courtesy of Basketball-Reference.com.

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Brooklyn Nets at Utah Jazz

Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City
Time: 9 p.m. Eastern
TV: YES Network
Live stream: NBA League Pass

The skinny

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Availability

from NBA.com

Brooklyn: PROBABLE–DeMarre Carroll (hyperextended left knee), Treveon Graham (back soreness), Shabazz Napier (right hamstring tightness); OUT–Allen Crabbe (sore right knee), Dzanan Musa (assignment, Long Island Nets).

Utah: QUESTIONABLE–Thabo Sefolosha (left hamstring rightness); OUT–Grayson Allen (assignment, Salt Lake City Stars), Tony Bradley (assignment, Salt Lake City Stars), Tyler Cavanaugh (two-way, Salt Lake City Stars), Dante Exum (partially torn right patellar tendon), Naz Mitrou-Long (two-way, Salt Lake City Stars).

Last meeting

Nov. 28, 2018, at Brooklyn: Donovan Mitchell heated up with 14 points in the fourth quarter and the Jazz outscored the Nets 31-13 to erase an eight-point deficit entering the final period of play en route to a 101-91 victory.

Mitchell finished with 29 points and four steals for Utah, while Rudy Gobert went for 23 points, 16 rebounds and four blocked shots. Former Net Derrick Favors had 10 boards and Joe Ingles handed out five assists.

Spencer Dinwiddie paced Brooklyn, which shot just 34.9 percent in the game, with 18 points and had two blocks. Rondae Hollis-Jefferson finished with 14 points and 11 rebounds, Jarrett Allen had 14 points and 10 boards and Ed Davis also grabbed 10 rebounds.

D’Angelo Russell logged 14 points, seven assists and three steals, while Joe Harris also had three thefts.

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What’s next?

Brooklyn: at LA Clippers, Sunday; at Sacramento, Tuesday; at Los Angeles Lakers, Friday

Utah: at Washington, Monday; at New York, Wednesday; at Atlanta, Thursday