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Tonight’s NBA draft lottery could be a game-changer for the Jazz.

Because the Jazz finished with the worst record in the 2024-25 season, they have a 14% chance of getting the No. 1 overall pick and are guaranteed a top-five pick.

If the Jazz get the first pick, they would select Duke’s Cooper Flagg. According to Sarah Todd, landing Flagg “could be the beginning of something great.”

“It‘s not hard to imagine, that in that world, Ryan Smith, Danny Ainge and Justin Zanik are applauded, praised, thanked and revered for the decision to tear down the Donovan Mitchell-Rudy Gobert Jazz team and rebuild by tanking for the sheer possibility of landing Cooper Flagg,” Sarah writes.

Read more about tonight’s NBA draft lottery and what it could mean for the Jazz.

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From Jan’s kitchen to the shelves at Costco

Lee Benson writes:

To understand how a protein snack the size of a ping-pong ball made it from a kitchen in Highland to a collection of Costco stores along the Wasatch Front — with reportedly more to come — you have to go back to the 2020 Utah high school 6A tennis championships.

Allison Story and her partner, Emma Reynolds, won the state championship that year in doubles, helping their school, Lone Peak High, to a second-place finish in the large school division.

The girls attributed their victory in no small part to the tasty PES (performance-enhancing snack) they took before every practice and every match: the protein-packed balls of nutrition that came from the above-mentioned kitchen.

Read more about how the creators of Stephen’s Gourmet Hot Cocoa made protein balls that even teenagers enjoy.

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