The Utah Jazz have agreed to hire Keyon Dooling in a player development role.

Dooling played in the NBA over 13 seasons.

Dooling also played collegiately for Quin Snyder at the University of Missouri.

The Utah Jazz have agreed to hire Dell Demps as an assistant coach.

Demps and Quin Snyder worked together with the San Antonio Spurs' G League affiliate in Austin from 2007 until 2010.

The Jazz recently lost assistant coach Johnnie Bryant to an associate head-coaching role with the New York Knicks.

After serving as general manager of the Pelicans for nine years, Demps decided he wanted to transition to coaching. 

The Utah Jazz are open to buying into the second round of the upcoming draft, sources told Tony Jones of The Athletic.

The team, which currently has the 23rd pick in the first round, does not have a second round pick.

The Athletic also reports that there is mutual interest between the Jazz and Derrick Favors, with the bi-annual exception slated to be roughly $3.6 million.

Favors, who was traded to the Pelicans last offseason, is an unrestricted free agent. 

Quin Snyder gave two donations worth $500 each to Burgess Owens, the Republican candidate in Utah’s tight 4th Congressional District race.

Snyder has been vocal about his support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and sits on the NBA coaches committee on racial injustice and reform. He kneeled with his team during the national anthem and supported the Jazz as it joined other teams in protest games in the wake of Jacob Blake’s police shooting.

Owens has criticized Black Lives Matter, describing them as a "Marxist organization."

“We need to fight for our country against these Marxists and these bullies and cowards that are destroying everything they touch,” Owens told Fox News.

The Salt Lake Tribune learned that Snyder and Owens met Feb. 21, when a nonprofit founded by Owens, Second Chance 4 Youth, attended a Jazz game against the Spurs. Later, Owens asked Snyder for a donation, which he delivered twice: one $500 donation on May 3, and another $500 on June 3, according to campaign disclosures.

Both Snyder and the Utah Jazz declined to comment. 

The Denver Nuggets' Game 7 win over the Utah Jazz drew 3.385 million viewers on ABC, according to Ben Cafardo of ESPN.

The game was the most-watched program on television for September 1st.

The Nuggets' Game 7 win over the San Antonio Spurs in 2019 drew 3.492 million viewers on TNT.

Donovan Mitchell will become eligible for a rookie scale max extension this offseason, which put his participation in the NBA's restart in a more perilous position than most of his peers. Mitchell has yet to make generational money in his career, but a severe injury could have jeopardized what will almost certainly be a five-year, $170 million max deal.

“Once my teammates told me they wanted to play, then I was all in. I couldn’t make it all about myself,” Mitchell told Chris Haynes of Yahoo! Sports after Game 7.

“There are younger guys who aren’t established in this league and needed this time to show their value. It would have been selfish of me to stand in the way of that. I couldn’t let my contract get in the way of the bigger picture. I had to rely on God. If I got hurt, it was God’s will. But I put my trust in Him and didn’t worry about potentially getting injured. That allowed me to go out there and play. My faith was in God.”

Mitchell and the Jazz will finalize a max extension when free agency opens in mid-October, sources tell Yahoo! Sports.

Donovan Mitchell said that the Utah Jazz are only scratching the surface of their potential following their 80-78 loss to the Denver Nuggets in game 7.

"This isn't the last of it. This is me scratching the surface. I know what I can do, how hard I've worked, how hard this team has worked. This won't be the end of it. That's what's fueling me. This ain't the end. This is just the beginning. I'm ready to go hoop again right now. I think we all are. This is just the beginning," said Mitchell after the game. 

Mitchell finished the game with 22 points and 9 rebounds.

Mitchell added that the manner of the loss, in which Mike Conley missed a last-second three-pointer, will weigh on his mind.

"To be honest, I [was] in shock. That was it. You work so hard to get to a point that we got to, and we were this close. We were down, we came back, and fought and clawed, and to be that close ... This will be on my mind for a long time."

Quin Snyder said that the loss was one of the hardest of his career. 

"This game tonight, was one of the toughest losses that I've been involved with. We've gone many levels [with] what this team has been through since we were in Oklahoma City, and the season was stopped. What we went through over a period of months, to have this group come back together here in Orlando, and just to see the competitiveness, the unselfishness, a team that really came together and grew and I wish we would have had a chance to keep playing," said Snyder.

Mitchell agreed with Snyder in discussing how much the team grew during the bubble run.

"We went from being an unsalvageable team about three months ago to this. And I don't think anybody outside of us expected that."