OAKLAND, CA – JANUARY 30: Kyrylo Fesenko #44 of the Utah Jazz gets ready to take on the Golden State Warriors on January 30, 2011 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. Copyright 2011 NBAE (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)
In this look back at the Utah Jazz regular season and first-round win over OKC, we honor radness in Jazzdom; from Donovan Mitchell to new jerseys.
If you’re a hardcore fan of the Utah Jazz, you may be feeling some conflicting emotions right now. Sure, the Jazz band shocked the world by making the playoffs and dispatching the OKC 3 in six and that’s pretty groovy.
However, the team also just got waxed by the Houston Rockets, finds itself without the services of starting point-man Ricky Rubio and could be facing a quick exit in Round 2.
Those things are all what one may refer to as “sucky.”
Nevertheless, I’m here to tell Jazz Nation to forget all of that. The 2017-18 season has been one of the RADDEST on record for the franchise. So many great things have gone down in the last year and there still could be more to come.
In an effort to both recognize and celebrate the good things Jazz fans have received this season, it’s my honor and privilege to present to you the first-ever Kyrylo Fesenko Awards For Radness In Jazzdom; named after the trash-talking, rim-rocking man himself, Big Fes.
Perhaps nothing in Jazzdom reflects radness like Fesenko (Kelly Tripucka’s mustache comes close). That said, radness abounds during what’s been a banner year for the Jazz.
So, without further ado, here are the honorees!
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<p>— Rev. Ryan Aston (@RoundballRuckus) <a href=https://thejnotes.com/2018/04/30/utah-jazz-2018-kyrylo-fesenko-honorary-awards-radness-jazzdom/"https://twitter.com/RoundballRuckus/status/991155616986025984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22>May 1, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Rest assured, his supervillain status is still intact.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text" style="width:590px;">NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 9: Trey Burke #23 of the New York Knicks signs his autograph after the game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on April 9, 2018 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)</p>
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<h3>“I told y’all!” award for post-Jazz success</h3>
<p><em>The Fesenko goes to… <strong>Trey Burke.</strong></em></p>
<p>I don’t know how Trey Burke does it. He fails sensationally in Utah despite getting handed the keys to the kingdom as a rookie. Later, he gets busted for texting his naked junk to random females. On his way out of Utah, he blasts the franchise and even goes scorched-earth on his alma mater.</p>
<p>And yet, somehow, dude still gets the last laugh.</p>
<p>After legions of Jazz fans, including myself, wrote him off as an NBA player, he returned in spectacular fashion with the New York Knicks this season. In 36 games with the Knicks, he averaged 13 points in just 22 minutes per game and shot over 50 percent from the field and 36 percent from 3-point range.</p>
<p>Also, he did this —</p>
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<p>What else is there to say? He told y’all.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text" style="width:590px;">ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – MAY 28: Renae Ingles of the Thunderbirds celebrates her last game with husband Joe and twins Jacob and Milla during the round 14 Super Netball match between the Thunderbirds and Magpies at Titanium Security Arena on May 28, 2017 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by James Elsby/Getty Images)</p>
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<h3>Jazzman bearing the closest resemblance to a custodial engineer, math teacher, CPA and/or your next-door neighbor</h3>
<p><em>The Fesenko goes to… <strong>Joe Ingles.</strong></em></p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Joe Ingles did my taxes in 2007. I had always just gone with the general deduction, but he opened my eyes to the awesome world of itemizing and blew up my federal return in a major way! Thanks, Joe!</p>
<p>Now, he plays basketball and does it spectacularly. This year, he set a Jazz franchise record for 3-point makes, knocking down 204 longballs, and finished in the top five league-wide in 3-point percentage at .440.</p>
<p>That’s pretty rad.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text" style="width:590px;">SALT LAKE CITY, UT – APRIL 5: (EDITORS NOTE: this image has been converted to black and white) Rudy Gobert #27 of the Utah Jazz looks on during the game against the LA Clippers on April 5, 2018 at vivint.SmartHome Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images)</p>
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<h3>BMF award for being a BMF</h3>
<p><em>The Fesenko goes to… <strong>Rudy Gobert.</strong></em></p>
<p>Make no mistake about it, Rudy Gobert is a bad, bad man.</p>
<p>He’ll dunk on your eye, then land on your lifeless body. He’ll swat your shot so hard, the ball will break the limbs of some poor soul in the seventh row. His very presence under the basket will leave you petrified at the very notion of coming within 10 feet of the rim.</p>
<p>Just ask Russell Westbrook.</p>
<p>Best of all, when you count his team out, he’ll tell you you’re wrong on Twitter, back it up on the court by carrying his squad to the promised land, then come back and tell you how stupid you were to have been a hater.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Shoutout to Everyone that counted us out!! <a href=https://thejnotes.com/2018/04/30/utah-jazz-2018-kyrylo-fesenko-honorary-awards-radness-jazzdom/"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ontothenextone?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22>#ontothenextone</a> <a href=https://thejnotes.com/2018/04/30/utah-jazz-2018-kyrylo-fesenko-honorary-awards-radness-jazzdom/"https://twitter.com/hashtag/weonlygettingstarted?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22>#weonlygettingstarted</a></p>
<p>— Rudy Gobert (@rudygobert27) <a href=https://thejnotes.com/2018/04/30/utah-jazz-2018-kyrylo-fesenko-honorary-awards-radness-jazzdom/"https://twitter.com/rudygobert27/status/983142534145691648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22>April 9, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He’s a BMF.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text" style="width:590px;">NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 22: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks during the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft at Barclays Center on June 22, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)</p>
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<h3>Worst social media hashtag</h3>
<p><em>The Fesenko goes to… <strong>#TankNote.</strong></em></p>
<p>To the people who started this movement, I totally feel you. There’s undeniably a method to the madness of tanking and, when you started the #TankNote hashtag, the Jazz were just a handful of games out of securing the pingpong balls needed to vie for a top draft pick.</p>
<p>As bloggers, it’s our job to take the latest in Jazzland, make it interesting/entertaining and keep everyone engaged with what’s to come and #TankNote is just the vehicle certain folks chose to ride or die with. That’s all this thing was and for that…I salute them.</p>
<p>It just proved to be spectacularly wrong. The Jazz won nearly 50 games and are among the elite eight of the league after Round 1 of playoff action. Few could have predicted this level of turnaround, but a lot of us felt pretty strongly that 19-28 wasn’t an accurate representation of what was brewing in the Wasatch Front.</p>
<p>You’re still rad, you of the #TankNote movement, but this one didn’t even draw iron.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text" style="width:590px;">SALT LAKE CITY, UT – APRIL 5: David Stockton #5 of the Utah Jazz handles the ball during the game against the LA Clippers on April 5, 2018 at vivint.SmartHome Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images)</p>
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<h3>Best ‘all the feels’ moment</h3>
<p><em>The Fesenko goes to… <strong>David Stockton</strong>, for his Vivint Arena debut.</em></p><div class="widget fs_ads"> <div class="fs_ad_widget-ad" style="margin:0 auto; width: 300px;"> <div class="fs-ll-ad" data-ad-type="minutemedia_slideshow_inline_300x250__desktop__tablet" data-vendor="minutemedia">
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<p>I’ll leave this one to the dulcet tones of Craig Bolerjack —</p>
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<p>— Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) <a href=https://thejnotes.com/2018/04/30/utah-jazz-2018-kyrylo-fesenko-honorary-awards-radness-jazzdom/"https://twitter.com/utahjazz/status/982096167855992834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22>April 6, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Any time a Stockton knocks down a triple for the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City, it’s a thing of beauty. And this one gave me all the feels.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text" style="width:590px;">INDIANAPOLIS, IN – APRIL 22: Rodney Hood #1 of the Cleveland Cavaliers looks on during game four of the NBA Playoffs against the Indiana Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on April 22, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Cavaliers won 104-100. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)</p>
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<h3>Raja Bell honorary trophy for moping, then heading to Cleveland</h3>
<p><em>The Fesenko goes to…<strong> Rodney Hood.</strong></em></p>
<p>I definitely didn’t see this one coming.</p>
<p>After Gordon Hayward bolted for Beantown last summer, it was more or less preordained that Rodney Hood would become the go-to guy for the Jazz. The team even sent Johnnie Bryant to run him through the same regimen that helped Hayward become an All-Star last season to prepare him for top billing.</p>
<p>It’s a role he never really got a handle on. Instead, he was supplanted in the starting five by Mitchell, after which he got mopey and became determined to find new digs.</p>
<p>Now, he’s gone from having what looked to be a career year in Utah to being the fifth option in the Cleveland Cavaliers offense and something of an afterthought.</p>
<p>Ouch.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text" style="width:590px;">SALT LAKE CITY, UT – APRIL 27: Donovan Mitchell #45 of the Utah Jazz drives with the ball during Game Six of Round One of the 2018 NBA Playoffs against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Vivint Smart Home Arena on April 27, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr./Getty Images)</p>
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<h3>Raddest jersey addition to the Jazz kit collection</h3>
<p><em>The Fesenko goes to… Utah’s gold <strong>Statement Edition</strong> uniforms.</em></p>
<p>Yeah, I said it! I like the gold ones better…and you should too! #HotTakeAlert</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, the Jazz’s gradient City Edition uniforms are awesome in concept. And, really, I kind of dig them. But that big ol’ UTAH splashed across the chest in the most generic font imaginable does nothing for me. Also, the I-15 thing is lost on almost everybody (and I freaking hate I-15).</p>
<p>I’d still like to see a J-Note or something, somewhere on there, as well. The Statement jerseys hit a home run in that department; it’s a bold, new look without abandoning the team’s history completely.</p>
<p>I totally understand wanting to have our own identity and the City jerseys have a cool color scheme to be sure. But you can’t just take the Jazz out of this team. Can’t we have the best of both worlds?</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text" style="width:590px;">SALT LAKE CITY, UT – APRIL 21: Ricky Rubio #3 of the Utah Jazz speaks with the media after the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game Three of Round One of the 2018 NBA Playoffs on April 21, 2018 at vivint.SmartHome Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images)</p>
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<h3>Most righteous dude</h3>
<p><em>The Fesenko goes to… <strong>Ricky Rubio.</strong></em></p>
<p>Ricky Rubio is kind of my hero. He caught grief for much of the season from fans and pundits alike, but quietly went about his business of getting better nonetheless. By year’s end, he was a key cog in one of the greatest turnarounds in league history and the Jazz’s undisputed floor general.</p>
<p>Rubio may be even better off the floor. He’s super involved in the local community, he’s a champion for cancer research and he takes every opportunity to tell the world how great it is to be a Jazzman.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Man, I can’t be more proud to play for this organization. What I saw today is a team with the biggest heart I have ever been part of. Moving to the second round and we are just getting started. Man, oh man. I can’t sleep. <a href=https://thejnotes.com/2018/04/30/utah-jazz-2018-kyrylo-fesenko-honorary-awards-radness-jazzdom/"https://t.co/OcWjQc7Dcj">pic.twitter.com/OcWjQc7Dcj
<p>— Ricky Rubio (@rickyrubio9) <a href=https://thejnotes.com/2018/04/30/utah-jazz-2018-kyrylo-fesenko-honorary-awards-radness-jazzdom/"https://twitter.com/rickyrubio9/status/990151649132859392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22>April 28, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He’s very popular, Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads — they all adore him. They think he’s a righteous dude.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text" style="width:590px;">OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – APRIL 25: Donovan Mitchell #45 of the Utah Jazz and Paul George #13 of the Oklahoma City Thunderduring game 5 of the Western Conference playoffs at the Chesapeake Energy Arena on April 25, 2018 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (Photo by J Pat Carter/Getty Images)</p>
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<h3>Nostradamus award for predicting the end</h3>
<p><em>The Fesenko goes to… <strong>Donovan Mitchell</strong> for calling his shot after Game 5.</em></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">A buddy sent me this.<br>Donovan Mitchell: “Hey. We’ll see y’all next year.”<a href=https://thejnotes.com/2018/04/30/utah-jazz-2018-kyrylo-fesenko-honorary-awards-radness-jazzdom/"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThunderUp?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22>#ThunderUp</a> <a href=https://thejnotes.com/2018/04/30/utah-jazz-2018-kyrylo-fesenko-honorary-awards-radness-jazzdom/"https://t.co/sTbt3tKk6q">pic.twitter.com/sTbt3tKk6q
<p>— Gabe Ikard (@GabeIkard) <a href=https://thejnotes.com/2018/04/30/utah-jazz-2018-kyrylo-fesenko-honorary-awards-radness-jazzdom/"https://twitter.com/GabeIkard/status/989356418103959552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22>April 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Legendary.</p><!—pageview_candidate—>">