KSL Sports Live Saturday Show – Full Show – February 17, 2024
You are watching KSL Sports Live hey you know we’re in an All-Star kind of mood tonight right here on KSL Sports live jazz forward Larry marinan set to participate in tonight’s Three-Point Contest he tells us the key to a successful contest coming up puka akua stole the All-Star Celebrity Game
Spotlight on Friday and we take a walk through Utah Jazz Allstar history plus college football Brett McMurphy talks to kle sports about the upcoming season of Big 12 Football and where he thinks the youths will finish up but with just 3 weeks left in the college basketball
Season we start with some big resume building or potentially resume bruising games the Utah State agies on the road against a quad one opponent this afternoon but the road has been a place they have thrived this season 10 wins away from home which is second most in
The nation behind only Indiana State but they’re in Fort Collins Against Colorado State a team that is 13- one on their home floor this season 5 minutes into the first half great awesome backs his way down and draws the foul Aggies are down by just a point but the Rams go on
A 14-2 run that’s Tavon Jackson with the reverse 5 minutes to go Darius Brown to Ian Martinez on that layup Aggie’s down 14 couple minutes later osor to the rack for the jam the deficit is not getting smaller though they’re down 17 at the half the agies have a big hole to dig
Out of in the second half oore inside with the mini hook but they’re still down by 18 next play Khalifa Sako gets under the hoop a little reverse there Aggie’s chipping away Ian Martinez on the inbounds pass with the dunk but Utah State’s defense they couldn’t get enough
Stops Patrick carrier with the alleo USU needing more of these a Jose adou three ball in the corner gets the agies to within 15 but Colorado state was dominant all the way through they LED from start to finish in this one really rough one in Fort Collins for the aies
They lose Loose by 20 75 to 55 aore had 15 points 13 rebounds the aies only shot 38% from the field and were out rebounded by 13 in the loss Utah State’s loss now drops them to 9 and four in the Mountain West Standings they’re tied
With San Diego State for the lead San Diego State will be in Logan to face the Aggies on Tuesday night get ready for that one up in Logan all right through its first 25 games this season BYU basketball has not lost to a team outside of the top 50 in the net
Rankings that’s one reason why they’re receiving very favorable seating projections for the NCAA tournament so today you’d think this matchup is a cakewalk they’re taking on the 136th ranked team in the net BYU at Oklahoma State a team that has lost nine of its last 11 games about 5 minutes into the
Game BYU finally makes its first three-pointer Spencer Johnson ties the game up at 11 but by he was just two of 16 from three and the half the Cowboys response a powerful one Keon Williams with with the hammer it’s 1813 for Oklahoma State BYU’s big man fusani trii
Kept him close gets two with the left hand to cut the lead to five but Oklahoma state was sharp shooting from three-point range John Michael Wright his third three of the half he had 11 points in the half Oklahoma State led by 15 at halftime 49-34 early in the second half Oklahoma
State’s lead would grow to 20 with less than 13 minutes to go in the game by really needs something to get going and something does get going Trevon Nell hits the three to cut it to 6649 then trii in the paint backto back buckets helps bring BYU to within 13 Richie
Saunders caps off the 90 run with an offensive rebound and an offb balance putb moments later Jackson Robinson cuts the lead to 10 with the three-pointer six minutes to go there’s still a CH chance here for BYU but every time they got close Oklahoma state would respond with something like this Brandon
Garrison throwing one down Carl Malone style and BYU trailed wire to wire in their game as well losing 93 to 83 only one Oklahoma State player averages double figures in scoring today five scored 13 or more and the Cowboys made 11 three pointers which is the most BYU
Has allowed in a game all season trior LED BYU with 17 points in the loss the top six teams in the Big 12 standings will get a first round Buy in the conference tournament with today’s loss BYU currently in that seventh spot with a six and6 Conference record weer State
Riding a five-game win streak today taking on the number one team in the Big Sky Eastern Washington Dylan Jones starting to heat up hits the three then a minute later another three to cut it to one later Jones is going to find KJ Cunningham that three makes it
35-27 then Jones doing some work in the post going to get the layup to drop he had 14 in the first half Weber State LED 40 4- 33 at halftime in the second half more Jones this time he’s going to find Steven verplank and Corner three ball 60- 49 for
Weber Alex two then gets the steel the fast break punches it in for the slam makes it 7356 then Dyson koher gets the steal he’s going to find Jones who goes Coast to Coast for the bucket Jones 30 points seven rebounds seven assists Weber wins their sixth straight taking down the top
Team in the conference number 12 Baylor taking on West Virginia start of the first half Jesse Edwards with the one-handed slam puts West Virginia up by one few possessions later Josh ojan wuna with the steel and the dunk to tie the game up start of the second half
Jaden nun with the step back three Baylor currently has an 85- 71 lead in the second half all right he’s the Great greatest High School football player this state has ever seen he was outstanding in his career with BYU and he set new records in the NFL for rookie
Wide receivers now puka nakua is part of NBA Allstar Weekend yeah nkua was a participant in the celebrity allstar game playing on team Shannon sharp and he had two of the best highlights in the game a steel that he took back for a high flying dunk and then late in the
Game another one-handed Jam that earned him the award for the sports center top 10 play of the game NCA scored 16 points in the game as team sharp beat team Stephen A Smith Cowboys defensive lineman Micah Parsons was the games MVP with a 37o performance the main event on
All-Star Friday night was the NBA Rising Stars game which featured a pair of jazz players keante George and Walker Kessler Kessler’s team eliminated George’s team in the first semifinal game of the night then in the championship game Kesler chipped in four points including a nice dunk and his team coached by Jaylen Rose
Won the rising stars Championship uh feeling good got the prize money not that it’s all about money but it’s pretty nice um so yeah going to go back home for a couple days and get back to Utah and get to it just got done with the riding Stars game uh
You know you know Walker did his thing and he cheated uh nah but now the goal is to get back here next year well tonight it’s all about the dunk contest and the Three-Point Shootout Jazz forward low Markin will be competing for the second straight year in the Three-Point Contest marinan had a
Few practice rounds yesterday and this morning but his experience from last year is what will help him most I think like I said it’s just the rhythm thing uh I I think I learned from last year that I had plenty of time at the end and I still kind of went fast
Even CU it just felt that was in in the Rhythm but having that experience from last year I think I can know knowing how much time I got and uh the pace of the shots I think that’s going to be a good experience to have going into tonight a tough dunk
Here is this the best thing has ever happened to you in part of your career the most fun thing well no my my honeymoon was a lot of fun all right but next to that it was it was good ah we love frank Laden the Utah Jazz connection to the all-star game
It’s a deep one 51 all-time selections to the all-star game from 16 different players throughout the franchise’s history two All-Star games have been played in Salt Lake City and twice the Jazz head coach has been a head coach at the All-Star game as well Pete marovich and truck Robinson were both Allstars in
New Orleans but it was Adrien Danley who was the first Jazz Allstar in Utah after the team moved here he went on to represent the Jazz and six All-Star games five as a starter it was his first All-Star Game in 1980 where he had his best performance scoring 23 points in 30
Minutes played the 1984 All-Star game was a special one for Frank Laden he was the Western Conference head coach joined by his players Jazz Allstar Adrien Dantley and Ricky green on his roster in that game car Malone is the most decorated All-Star in jazz history making his debut in 1988 he had 22
Points and 10 rebounds in that game 1989 marked the first time three jazz players went to the All-Star Game John Stockton and Mark Eaton joining the mailman Mark Eaton didn’t score but he did what he does best blocking a couple of shots John Stockton had 11 points and 17
Assists in 32 minutes and with some help from Stockton Malone delivered 28 points nine rebounds and he was named the game’s MVP in 1993 the All-Star game came to Salt Lake City one of the greatest moments in Utah Sports history Malone had 28 points and 10 rebounds
While Stockton added nine points and 15 assists the two were named co-mvps of the game Malone went to 14 All-Star games in his career which at the time of his retirement was second most all time in the NBA Stockton was a 10 time All-Star in his career today on the PGA
Tour the Genesis Invitational Tony F now playing good enough golf to hover near the top of the leaderboard he was one over going into the final three holes today but he heats up nice the t-shot there on the par 3 16 finds the green he’s still 17 ft away from a birdie but
Feno has never been a cut he didn’t like and this one is dead center to the bottom of the cup he would Birdie the 17th as well feno’s now 600 through three rounds tied for 15th right the Super Bowl that’s over but now is when the real fun of the NFL
Off season begins preparations for the upcoming NFL draft hit and drop swung around by Ellis several local players have been invited to participate at the NFL training combine we’ll tell you who is going and Brett McMurphy tells us tells KSL Sports where he thinks Utah football will end up this upcoming
Season I like in a happy coaches choose me you know it’s it’s a big big it’s a big honor to be here we’ll reminisce about Allstar days of old a bit more more Utah Jazz All-Star history moments are coming up after this outing combine begins in 12 Days a
Total of 321 NFL draft prospects have been invited to participate including six from the University of Utah Edge rusher Jonah Ellis and safety Cole Bishop headline the list they are joined by safety caki offensive lineman Keaton bills and satoa laa and wide receiver Devon V will be heading there three BYU
Players have been given that invitation to the combine as well quarterback Kaden slovis will be there as one of 14 quarterbacks in a group that includes Jaden Daniels B Nicks Michael penck Jr and Caleb Williams offensive tackle Kingsley Su Mata and punter Ryan Rico will also be there representing the
Cougars all right a whole lot of changes are coming college football’s way this fall the Pack 12 that’ll cease to exist for the first time in 109 years the youth they’ll be joining BYU in the Big 12 Conference which will be a league of 16 and the college football playoff
Finally expands from four teams to 12 although Utah is coming in as one of the new kids in the conference they’re still going to be one of the favorites to compete for an automatic bid to that 12 team playoff and according to the Stadium’s Brett McMurphy he told JJ and
Alex on the KSL Sports Zone this week that he expects Utah to be one of the top four teams in the five highest ranked Conference champions get automatic bids to the cach football playoff and the four highest ranked Conference champions no matter where they’re ranked by the selection
Committee they could rank four seven 17 and 102 but if those are the four highest rank conference Champs they will be seated numbers one two three and four in the new playoff in my bold projections tomorrow spoiler alert the Big 12 champ I have them Beed fourth in my college football playoff both
Projections and that big 12 champ that I have seated fourth is none other than your Utah youth get that hype train going early all right the BYU Women’s Basketball team at the Marriot center against Kansas this afternoon Lauren gusen gets the corner three to go she scored BYU’s
First 11 points later in the second Gustin working in the post goes up and under for the layup the game is tied at 31 and half time in the fourth quarter Amari Whiting finds Gustin for the layup Gustin finished with 33 points and 18 rebounds my goodness what a season she’s
Having but BYU would fall short by eight points to Kansas the utai Women’s Basketball team is worthy of another single- digit seed in the NCAA tournament but they’ve struggled against other nationally ranked opponents this season in eight games against ranked opponents the youths had just two wins
And on Friday hosting the eighth ranked team in the country it went all the way to the final horn no oh b r with the put back Utah does have a timeout not going to take it live on the clock young trying to get a little closer she
Does Daisy young beats the buzzer for the 7776 win their next two games on the road against ninth rank UCLA and 10th rank USC next week we have an opportunity to still achieve our goals of hosting the first two rounds I mean that is within our
Grasp um we’re still you know hunt to get a Buy in the in the Pack 12 tournament like there’s a lot that we still we it’s we control our own destiny to your question in terms of the narrative I think for us and our narrative what
We’re saying in our locker room it’s one down one down and we got one to go on Friday or Thursday at UCLA that’s going to be our mindset of just one at a time that Utah game wasn’t the only wild finish in the Pack 12 on Friday night
Under 15 seconds to play UCLA hitting a three-pointer to take a one-point lead 7574 then after a timeout Oregon State scores with less than 3 seconds to go to retake the lead UCLA’s turn Lauren bets drains the jumper with one one second left for the lead but that’s still
Enough time for Oregon State T Von Al ol hoffen hits the game winner four lead changes in 7 Seconds beavers win a tough dunk here okay okay is this the best thing is ever happened to you in Far of your career the most fun thing well no my my honeymoon was a
Lot of fun all right but next to that it was it was good from 1988 through 2002 there were only two jazz players associated with the alar game okay yes I know Mark Eaton was in at once during that time period but Carl Malone and John Stockton they
Were the main stays in 2004 we began to see a new wave of jazz Allstars Andre Kinko was the next Jazz All-Star in 2004 he had two points in a block it was his only All-Star appearance it was three years before another jazz player was in
The All-Star Game em ker scoring uh Four Points in 14 minutes in 2007 Carlos Boozer was a two-time All-Star he had 14 points 10 rebounds in 2008 All-Star Game and Darren Williams finally got the KN in 2010 he was a two-time All-Star with the Jazz scoring 14 points six assists
And four steals in that 2010 game the Jazz have had a player named an Allstar in every season in the 2020s it all started with Donovan Mitchell and Rudy goar in 2020 in Chicago the pair were named All-Stars in three consecutive Seasons Mike connley finally broke through and earned an All-Star invite in
2021 along with Donovan and Rudy in the 2023 All-Star Game it returned to Salt Lake City and Larry Markin represented the Jazz named a starter he scored 13 points and pulled down seven rebounds the g-league allstar were showing off this afternoon in the g-league dunk contest Tavon Kinsey of
The Salt Lake City Stars was one of the four participants in the game Kinsey’s highlight dunk was the between the legs 360 but it was Jordan Jackson from the main Celtics that took home the trophy number one Yukon facing off against number four Mar Marette and the reigning National champs did not hold
Back Samson Johnson goes up for the alleyoop Slam in the second half Tristan Newton finds Donovan kingan for the slam kingan finish with 17 points Yukon routes Marquette 81- 53 how about the ice in the NHL the LA Kings taking the second best team in the Easton the
Bruins taking them all the way to the wire end of the third empty net for the Kings Andy kopar with the game timeing goal on the deflection it goes to overtime where brand Clark on the ca takeaway Breakaway uh hits his first career goal and it’s a game winner Kings
Down the Bruins 5 to four Utah is known for developing Olympic talent but we usually think of winter sports right well coming up we’ll introduce you to a park city teenager who has her sight set on an Olympic sport this summer in Paris Park City you think of skiing
Snowboarding Bob slay and L and sailing with the second Winter Olympics on the way Park city is arguably the winter sports capital of the United States but uh really sailing one of Utah’s next Olympic hopefuls though has her sights set on Paris this summer in a boat that
Is me in a laser that’s just yeah that’s just one of the race nights it’s probably one of my favorite photos of me sailing cuz I’m just like not really in the boat 16-year-old Morgan vesco is your typical Park City teenager she’s very active on the winter sports scene
Spends a lot of time on the slopes on both aboard and skis she even plays competitive ice hockey a sport she’s been in since she was five my mom she just kind of she kind of threw me into everything as much as she could and she’s good on those skates playing for
The Utah lady Grizzlies 16u team a team that travels and faces other teams in the National girls hockey league hockey is very you have to have balance you have to be fast with your body but hold on that’s not where this story began it began here it’s probably of my favorite
Photos of me sailing that’s right Morgan is a sailor racing in a laser a small single-handed dinghy and she’s really good like good enough that this weekend she’s competing at the US Olympic qualifier in Miami I’m eager to get there and see what is waiting for me I
Want to be able to make new connections with people I think it will be an amazing event sailing a sport she also started as a frightened 5-year-old I remember there were moments where I was like holding my coach’s hand like I don’t like this the boat’s tipping to now one of the top
Female racers in the country who with a top three finish in Miami will be headed to Paris that would be insane I feel that’d be life-changing for me We are rooting Morgan on the college baseball season began this week and in eastern Carolina’s opener on Friday Parker bird who had his leg amputated
After a boating accident 19 months ago became the first division one baseball player to ever play play game with a prosthetic leg Boyd came into pinch hit or bird came into pinch hit and received a longstanding Ovation a very emotional moment for him and his family who was in
Attendance as well he did reach first base on a walk we’ll be right back High School Hoops number two Olympus taking on number 10 Skyline on Friday in the first quarter Dutch Dowell for three part of a 15-1 run to start the game in the third quarter D with the
Steel how about the Finish throw it down they’re up 7632 Olympus ran away with the game Titans get the win 8649 we’ll see you tonight at 10 with Allstar highlights Lowry in the Three-Point Contest
Full episode of KSL Sports Live from Feb, 17, 2024. The guys talk about NBA All-Star Weekend, local college basketball (Utah Utes, BYU Cougars, Utah State Aggies) and the Red Rocks.
