It is the final day of the Summer Interview series with Tony Jones. David Locke, the radio voice of the Utah Jazz and Jazz NBA Insider, asks the simpliest of questions, How good are the Utah Jazz. Then Tony sloughs off the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers and Locke wants to know why Jones doesn’t have them in the top of the West.

Locke opens the show talking about Mike Conley and how he is developing a relationship with Quin Snyder and Donovan Mitchell

The Utah Jazz 18-19 season will be most remembered the incident with the racism spewed toward Russell Westbook.  Looking back at that moment how does Tony Jones digest what took place.  Then David Locke, the radio voice of the Utah Jazz and Jazz NBA Insider wonders with Tony on how it impacted the Jazz off-season and its ability to sign players.

The big moment of the off-season was when the Jazz pivoted from Nikola Mirotic to Bojan Bogdonovic.  How did it go down and what did it mean for the Jazz off-season.

The Summer Interview series with David Locke and Tony Jones.  First, Locke takes a piece of the Full 48 podcast to talk about how the NBA Schedules.

What could derail any of the contenders in the West? David Locke, radio voice of the Utah Jazz and Jazz NBA Insider thinks it could be lack of defense. Locke looks at the Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets to see if they can defend. Then Locke is joined by Tony Jones of the Athletic to talk about the play of Donovan Mitchell in Vegas and what pushes him to the next step as well as how the make up of this team is formed with all the new pieces.