For the first time in 27 years, a Utah Jazz player has scored 50 points in a regular-season game. They needed every one of them, too. Lauri Markkanen’s 51-point, 14-rebound performance pushed the Jazz to an overtime win over the Phoenix Suns on Monday.

So far this season, Kessler's remained a strong component of the Jazz's frontcourt, averaging 16.7 points, 9.7 rebounds and a career-high 3.3 assists, all while being his usual force in the interior with 2.7 blocks a game.

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The versatile musician was also known for his collaborations with Charles Lloyd, Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett.

Murray is ruled out with an illness. This article was originally published on www.si.com/nba/trailblazers as One Blazers Player Returns While Another Ruled Out vs Jazz. The Portland Trail Blazers will welcome back forward Matisse Thybulle to the rotation, but they will be without their sharpshooter, Kris Murray.

The Portland Trail Blazers (2-2) and Utah Jazz (2-1) meet Wednesday at Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tip-off is set for 9 p.m. ET. Let's analyze BetMGM Sportsbook's NBA odds around the Trail Blazers vs. Jazz odds and make our expert NBA picks and predictions for the best bets.

SALT LAKE CITY – The Phoenix Suns stormed all the way back from a 20-point deficit to force overtime, but fell to the Utah Jazz, 138-134, before a sellout crowd of 18,186, Monday, Oct. 27, at Delta Center. Keyonte George put the Jazz (2-1) up for good, 136-134, with 40.2 seconds left.

Jack DeJohnette, a celebrated jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis on his landmark 1970 fusion album and collaborated with Keith Jarrett and a vast array of other jazz greats, has died at 83. The acclaimed drummer,

At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the 1910s to ’50s.

Jazz center Jusuf Nurkic (right hip contusion) has been upgraded to available for Wednesday’s game against Portland.