#2 Utah Jazz
The Utah Jazz have been one of the NBA's biggest success stories for the past two seasons and have been a middling team for a very long time. With the off-season acquisitions they've made, they have asserted themselves as one of the NBA's strongest teams.
Mike Conley Jr. is an All-Star calibre player that they managed to snag from the Memphis Grizzlies and he'll be their starting point-guard. Emmanuel Mudiay and Dante Exum will be backup point-guards in a real contender this season.
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Donovan Mitchell is who this team is built around and he'll be the starting shooting guard again, with Royce O'Neal and Thabo Sefolosha backup options. Joe Ingles and Bojan Bogdanovic are solid small forwards, both of whom will be splitting minutes for the Jazz.
They have been amazing sharpshooters in the past and the Jazz will hope for another solid season from the pair, while Jeff Green represents another good backup player for them at the forward position.
Ed Davis is one of the most shrewd signings of the 2019 Free Agency. A really good locker room presence, the Jazz will look towards their veteran players as the season intensifies. He's also a really solid rebounder and defender, making them even better defensively, while Green and Ingles are expected to split minutes at the #4 spot too going forward.
Finally, French center Rudy Gobert was the Jazz's best and most consistent performer last season - which ended with him winning the Defensive Player of the Year accolade for the second successive campaign. He will again be their starter at center, with Ekpe Udoh filling in as their backup option.
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