Jared Butler shows out in short-handed Utah Jazz’s decimation of the Clippers
With the Jazz down two key guards, the rookie got a big opportunity to play, and impressed with both his shooting and play-making. Which didn’t stop teammates from teasing him about excessive dribbling.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Jared Butler (13) as the Utah Jazz host the Los Angeles Clippers, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 18, 2022.
Eric is a West Valley City native and a graduate of Granger High School and the University of Utah who joined The Tribune in 2003. He hoards rescue cats and guinea pigs, reads historical fiction, watches British baking shows, and obsesses over 1980s hair-metal bands in his spare time.