Jazz suffer worst loss in Utah history, 150-95

It was simply the biggest blowout in Utah Jazz history. Brandon Miller scored 18 points, LaMelo Ball had 17 and the Charlotte Hornets built a 47-point lead in the first half of a 150-95 rout against …

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 Sports) – It was simply the biggest blowout in Utah Jazz history.

Brandon Miller scored 18 points, LaMelo Ball had 17 and the Charlotte Hornets built a 47-point lead in the first half of a 150-95 rout against the Utah Jazz on Saturday night.

The 55-point blowout loss eclipses Utah’s two 50-point defeats to Dallas in 2023 and 2018. Only the New Orleans Jazz 158-102 loss in 1979 was worse.

It was the Hornets largest blowout victory ever on the road.

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“If you want a picture of what everything going wrong looks like, that’s what it looks like,” said Jazz head coach Will Hardy. “The three-point line and rebounding hurt us early, and that ended up being the story of the game.”

The Hornets were 16 for 36 while the Jazz hit one of their 12 attempts. Charlotte out-rebounded the Jazz, 65-31.

The Jazz were coming off a hard-fought 116-114 win over Dallas, and a 129-124 overtime loss to defending NBA champion Oklahoma City. But they were never in this one. The Jazz 39-point halftime deficit was the second largest in team history.

Tre Mann led the Hornets with 20 points in 12 minutes off the bench. Miles Bridges and Collin Sexton each scored 15 in a game Charlotte led by 57 in the second half. Nine Hornets players scored in double figures.

“I recognized that our lineup was really small at times tonight, but they had 41 second chance points,” Hardy said. “Until really late in the game, we couldn’t throw it in the ocean.”

Brice Sensabaugh scored 26 points for the Jazz, who rested leading scorer Lauri Markkanen and were without injured starting center Jusuf Nurkic.

Ryan Kalbrenner and Grant Williams returned from injuries for Charlotte, which outscored Utah by 45 points behind the 3-point line in the first half.

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Williams, playing for the first time since November 2024 after recovering from right knee surgery, hit consecutive 3-pointers to cap a 23-2 run that made it 39-8. The Jazz went scoreless for more than five minutes as Charlotte scored 17 straight points.

It was 45-14 after one and the Hornets extended it to 77-30 on Bridges’ 3-pointer with 1:41 left in the half. Utah scored the final eight points of the half.

Kalkbrenner had 12 points and nine rebounds after missing 10 games with a sprained left elbow.

“That’s one we’ve got to put away and get onto the road trip,” Hardy said.

The Jazz next visit the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday.

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Source: Utah News