Gameday preview: Utah at Wolves

December 30, 2015 at 3:17AM

Wolves gameday

7 P.M. VS. Utah • target ctr. • fsn, 830-am

Preview: The 13-16 Jazz had lost two consecutive games and six of its last eight before Monday's 95-91 home victory over Philadelphia. It has been hit hard by injuries to Dante Exum, Rudy Gobert, Alec Burks and Derrick Favors. … The Jazz won last year's season series 3-1.

Players to watch: Jazz forward Gordon Hayward leads his team in scoring with a 19.0 point average. … In Monday's loss at San Antonio, Wolves forward Andrew Wiggins became the sixth youngest and fourth-fastest player in NBA history reach 2,000 career points.

Injuries: Wolves C Nikola Pekovic remains listed as out. Exum, Burks, Gobert are all out; Favors is questionable.

Jerry Zgoda

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