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At the beginning of the 2022-23 NBA season, there was a lot of uncertainty with this Utah Jazz team and we weren’t really sure what to expect. If anything, expectations were very low, and the team was assumed to be headed for a tanking season.
It feels important to remind everyone that even the schedule makers and national broadcast companies didn’t expect anything exciting from the Jazz, who are not scheduled to appear on ESPN, TNT or ABC all season.
Of course, here we are with the Jazz in the top tier of the Western Conference, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at the schedule through a different lens than we might have when it was first released.
Games that would have once been viewed as a scheduled loss for…