{"id":179159,"date":"2025-07-18T12:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/179159\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:53:22","slug":"new-sideline-reporter-for-the-jazz-joins-the-team-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/179159\/","title":{"rendered":"New sideline reporter for the Jazz joins the team this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Utah Jazz fans will see a new face on the broadcast team this upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in three years, the Jazz TV broadcasts will have a sideline reporter.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve recruited Lauren Green \u2013 a journalist and former track and field athlete. She\u2019ll combine her love of the game with her passion for telling good and meaningful stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am the sideline reporter for the Utah Jazz and host for <a href=\"https:\/\/ksltv.com\/681193\/utahns-audition-to-sing-at-utah-jazz-utah-hockey-club-games\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the upcoming season<\/a>,\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s her first official week with the Utah Jazz, and Lauren Green\u2019s new title still catches her off guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels so surreal and it\u2019s always been a dream of mine,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her path to the NBA and the Jazz started at the University of Nevada, Reno.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ran track and field out there for all four years. I was a 400-meter sprinter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next stop, Arizona State University\u2019s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications where Green earned a master\u2019s in sports journalism.<\/p>\n<p>She covered basketball and the NBA Summer League, as well as track and field for the Mountain West.<\/p>\n<p>Green recently worked as a news and sports anchor at the NBC affiliate KOB 4 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was covering as many sports as I could before I got promoted to a full-time sports anchor,\u201d Green said. \u201cAnd that was about a year ago and now I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity to tell stories centered around basketball at the highest level is one she couldn\u2019t pass up. Like a competitor, she\u2019ll prep for each game, researching and formulating questions beyond just the stats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut also building relationships, going to practices, learning who players are as people and as athletes on the court,\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s most <a href=\"https:\/\/kslsports.com\/524228\/three-bold-predictions-utah-jazz-2024-25-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">excited about Jazz nation<\/a> and to feel the fans\u2019 passion for the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s what makes this franchise special. Not every NBA team has a fan base backing them like that,\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s looking forward to being part of Jazz history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they\u2019ve got an NHL team now too. I think it\u2019s a fun, new time to be a part of the Utah Jazz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Catch Lauren Green on the sidelines at the Jazz\u2019s first preseason game at home October 4th against the New Zealand Breakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Utah Jazz fans will see a new face on the broadcast team this upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,1515,423,6432,6431,6,66,5334,2652,422,427,3972,2653],"class_list":{"0":"post-179159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-home","10":"tag-jazz","11":"tag-ksltv-com","12":"tag-ksltv-com-utah-news","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-talk-and-community","16":"tag-traffic","17":"tag-utah","18":"tag-utah-jazz","19":"tag-utahjazz","20":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114874338863694123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}