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Jazz Shut Down Rookie for Rest of Season
It’s officially the end of Cody Williams’ rookie season with the Utah Jazz.
According to a team release, Williams will be out for the rest of the 2024-25 season due to mononucleosis, effectively keeping him out of the mix for Utah’s final five games of the year.
Here’s the full statement from the Jazz:
“Williams tested positive for mononucleosis on April 1. He will miss the remainder of the 2024-25 season and will be re-evaluated in three weeks before starting off-season conditioning.”
It’s been nothing short of an interesting year for the Jazz’s lottery pick in Williams, who did tend to have his fair share of ups and downs throughout.
During his 50 games suiting up, Williams averaged 4.6 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 1.2 assists on 32.3% shooting from the field and 25.9% from deep. Perhaps a few flashes have been scattered in the mix, but ultimately, it’s been a year defined by its collection of inefficiency issues and growing pains.
It’s far from an indication that Williams’ career is doomed to fail, though. Coming out of college, it was well known that he’d likely need some time to grow into his frame physically and get extended reps after having limited shots and opportunities at Colorado.
Now, the Jazz are facing the brunt of that effect through the turbulence of his first season. It’s been tough sledding at times, but Utah and their coaching staff still seem motivated to have the back of their young lottery pick, who still has a considerable amount of potential to bank on.
While the illness for Williams will end his rookie campaign a bit prematurely, it’ll provide an opportunity for the Colorado product to refresh after a bumpy first year in the league, then get kickstarted on a critical offseason for his development ahead of his sophomore campaign right around the corner.
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SALT LAKE CITY — A California man in Utah, as part of his duties with the National Guard, is accused of trying to solicit sex from a young teenager.
Joshua Ruben Rodriguez, 29, of Fresno, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with attempted rape of a child, a first-degree felony, and enticement of a minor, a second-degree felony.
The investigation began when an agent with the Utah State Bureau of Investigation posed as a 13-year-old girl on a “popular social media site … in an attempt to locate and apprehend adults attempting to have sexual contact with children,” according to charging documents.
On April 16, Rodriguez sent the agent a message — believing he was talking to a teen girl — that stated, “I’ll be direct with you, I would like to get to know you and (have sex with) your mind into a daze to where you feel like a woman,” according to charging documents.
When the “girl” asked if he had a problem with her age, Rodriguez replied, “I don’t have a problem with your age,” the charges state.
The agent told Rodriguez to meet at an apartment complex in Salt Lake County where the girl lived, claiming her mother would be gone. When Rodriguez arrived, he was taken into custody, the charges state.
“(Rodriguez) does not have ties to Utah. He is a resident of Fresno, California. (He) was in town as part of his military service with the California National Guard,” prosecutors stated in charging documents while requesting he be held without bail pending trial.
ST. GEORGE, Utah (KUTV) — One person was hospitalized at the St. George Regional Hospital after a car rolled and caught fire just south of the Utah-Arizona border.
The Beaver Dam and Littlefield Fire Department in Arizona said its crews responded to the crash near the Black Rock Road exit – roughly two miles south of the state border – on Sunday night.
Upon arrival, crews put out the car fire and found the driver had left the scene. A single occupant, who was able to get out of the car on their own, was transported to the hospital by a Beaver Dam ambulance.
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Their condition has not been publicly released.
Details on what led to the crash and the condition of the driver were not immediately available.
The Beaver Dam and Littlefield Fire Department said law enforcement investigated the scene.
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz missed out on the NBA Playoffs, but still scored a big win thanks to a coin flip.
In Monday’s tiebreaker coin flip to determine who had the fourth-worst record in the league last season, the Jazz came out winners over the Sacramento Kings, who had the same 22-60 record.
Had the Jazz lost the coin flip, they would have been fifth in NBA Draft Lottery odds. Only the worst four teams are guaranteed to remain within the top eight of the lottery.
If Utah had fallen to fifth, there would have been the chance they could have dropped out of the top 8 teams in the lottery, and owed the draft pick to Oklahoma City, which was top-8 protected in a previous trade.
The Jazz now have an 11.5 percent chance to win the first overall pick in the NBA Draft Lottery, which is scheduled for Sunday, May 10.
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