GAMEDAY PREVIEW: Jazz vs. Spurs: How to Watch, Odds, and Injury Report
Tonight, the Utah Jazz will play the San Antonio Spurs. Here’s all the information you require.
The Utah Jazz come to the Frost Bank Centre tonight with the intention of ending a four-game losing streak for the San Antonio Spurs.
Victor Wembanyama departed the Spurs’ most recent game on Saturday due to an ankle injury and did not participate. The end result of Wembanyama’s absence was a 25-point rout against the Dallas Mavericks, a state rival from Texas.
The Jazz, meanwhile, hopes to win its third straight and sixth of the previous eight games. With just Keyonte George (knee) and Talen Horton-Tucker (foot) on the disabled list, the club is getting healthier.
SAN ANTONIO — From a quarter to eight o’clock in the evening, thirty females in middle school pursued the San Antonio Spurs’ Coyote.
Frost Bank Centre had been unoccupied for the whole hour before, yet it was lit up and operational. The spacious area was occupied by a handful of team members and an Ashley representative, who were meticulously arranging mattresses and gift bags for the excited kids who would be carelessly dashing into the concourse.
For the moment, the 19,000-seat arena may have been empty, but just physically. That was ensured by the resounding spirit of the holidays.
Things felt a little different in Spursland, between the lights flashing on the illuminated “Hope to Dream” sign, the distant buzz from the squad dining with Tre Jones, Doug McDermott, and Julian Champagnie, and the signs greeting S.J. Davis to a “ultimate dream experience” surrounding the arena.
The girls returned from their clinic with the Spurs players and staff just as fast as they had left. Every girl’s eyes brightened at the sight, and San Antonio’s coyote led the pack with a simple three-beat cadence from the concourse to the court.
“You remember those times,” McDermott remarked, “I still [recall] going to my first Timberwolves game and meeting some of the players. That just has a lasting impact on a kid.” It’s safe to say that the 30 girls from S.J. Davis and their families got an evening to remember. But to them, it meant much more than just some gifts and some skills training. For the Spurs, Frost Bank Centre and San Antonio were home. But on this particular December night, that changed. Both were true.
