The Jazz worked for their reward this season, a reward that rattled around their brains nearly every day, every game, every minute, from the opening of camp until their final regular-season victory against San Antonio on Wednesday night.
They sought what they had gone without for too long: the playoffs.
“That’s the goal, that’s what we want,” Gordon Hayward said with a bright-faced nod, six months ago.
But somewhere in the far reaches of his mind, there must have been a corner of darkness, harb...
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