The 10-35 Golden State Warriors take on the 30-13 Utah Jazz on Wednesday, January 22 at 7pm PT at Chase Center as the Jazz try to sweep the Warriors for the season after having won their last three meetings.
The third-place Jazz are trying to make up for a rough start to the season they were anticipated to be among the West’s title contenders, and are looking more the part of late having won their last two games and nine of their last 10 contests.
The Warriors have had an especially rough stretch of late, with an inverted nine of their last 10 games a loss, not that anyone is surprised given the state of the team in Steph Curry and Klay Thompson’s absence.
Forward Draymond Green (illness), forward Kevon Looney (abdomen), wing Glenn Robinson III (ankle) and shooting guard Jacob Evans all may miss the match with the Jazz as well.
Utah will be entirely healthy unless they choose to rest center Rudy Gobert, who rolled his ankle against the Indiana Pacers Jan. 20.
With Utah the clearly superior team in terms of health and available talent, the path to victory for the league-worst Warriors is mostly luck, and a little disrespect from their opponent and a dash of Alec Burks revenge game.
But outside of that unlikely combination of events, the Jazz should take this game fairly easily, reflected in an average spread of +8 for the Dubs by most online sportsbooks.
