{"id":557155,"date":"2026-01-24T06:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/557155\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:10:42","slug":"its-time-for-basketball-san-antonio-spurs-vs-utah-jazz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/557155\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for Basketball: San Antonio Spurs vs Utah Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Game Thread. Veterans of the Game Thread know how we do things around here, but for all you newbies we have a few rules. Our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poundingtherock.com\/community-guidelines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:community guidelines;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">community guidelines<\/a>\u00a0apply and basically say be cool, no personal attacks, don\u2019t troll and don\u2019t swear too much. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Spurs are participating in a Martin Luther King Day game today against the Utah Jazz for an unusual Monday afternoon game. The Jazz are missing Lauri Markkanen and several other rotation players. The Spurs roster will be missing Devin Vassell, who has been out for a while with an adductor strain, but the hope is that he will return soon. Tonight\u2019s game is the last of a three game home stand, and they could win all three with a victor tonight. The Spurs face the Rockets tomorrow night in Houston, and if the Spurs can put the Jazz away early today, it would be advantageous for the Spurs as they look to stay solidly in second place in the Western Conference stay among the top teams in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Spurs have struggled with putting teams away lately, blowing big leads on several occasions and barely holding on for a win against the Timberwolves on Saturday after taking a 25 point lead at the half. The next step in the Spurs evolution would be developing a killer instinct, and the Jazz game would be a good place to start, especially since Utah beat the Silver and Black 127-114 on December 27. Let\u2019s GO SPURS!!<\/p>\n<p>Game Prediction:<\/p>\n<p>After the game, the Jazz offer to return their team name to New Orleans, and will adopt a name more appropriate to Salt Lake City. Suggestions in comments.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio Spurs vs Utah Jazz<br \/>January 19, 2026 | 4:00 PM CT <br \/>Streaming: NBA League Pass<br \/>TV: FanDuel Sports Southwest<br \/>Reminder:\u00a0It is\u00a0against site policy to post links to illegal streams\u00a0in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Game Thread. Veterans of the Game Thread know how we do things around here, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,2725,292,423,976,74998,6,478,211,969,474,4075,4074,534,5592,2594,308,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-557155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-devin-vassell","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-jazz","12":"tag-lauri-markkanen","13":"tag-martin-luther-king-day","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-orleans","16":"tag-rockets","17":"tag-san-antonio","18":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","19":"tag-sanantonio","20":"tag-sanantoniospurs","21":"tag-spurs","22":"tag-the-jazz","23":"tag-the-spurs","24":"tag-timberwolves","25":"tag-utah-jazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115948593281154710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557155","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=557155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}