Calvin Barrett is a writer, editor, and prolific Mario Kart racer located in Provo, Utah. Currently writing for SB Nation and FanSided, he has covered theUtah Jazz andBYU athletics since 2024 and graduated from Utah Valley University.
The 2025 Salt Lake City Summer League is set for a temporary change of scenery due to Delta Center renovations set to take place during the NBA and NHL offseason. This year’s event marks the 10th year of operation for the abridged Summer League round robin and will feature the Summer League squads of the Utah Jazz (please contain your surprise), Memphis Grizzlies, Oklahoma City Thunder (perennial Summer League powerhouse), and Philadelphia 76ers.
With the Smith Entertainment Group’s purchase of the newly-dubbed Utah Mammoth hockey squad, ease of viewership adjustments were necessitated by the Delta Center’s basketball-forward layout.
Beyond the single-goal seating, the floor plans boasted suboptimal space for wooly mammoth skeletons, a 5-story mammoth head replica, or my suggested 2.5x-scale effigy of Sid the Sloth.
Per the press release:
“Salt Lake City Summer League has become an annual summer staple in our community since its launch 10 years ago,” said Jonathan Rinehart, president of the Salt Lake City Stars and Salt Lake City Summer League. “While Delta Center undergoes renovations, we’re committed to preserving the tradition of the event and look forward to giving fans a first look at the highly anticipated 2025 draft class.”
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With Delta Center undergoing renovations this summer, the Jazz are moving their offseason festivities back to the Huntsman Center, where the SLC summer league was last held in 2017 during a previous arena remodel.
The Salt Lake City Summer League will take place after the NBA Draft (June 25-26), and could feature five first-round draft picks including two lottery picks and six second round picks from the Jazz (No. 5, No. 21, No. 43 and No. 53), Sixers (No. 3 and No. 35), Thunder (No. 15, No. 24 and No. 44), and Grizzlies (No. 48 and No. 56).”
The Huntsman Center is a natural backup environment for the event, as it played a significant supplementary role during 2023’s NBA All-Star Weekend in Salt Lake City, where it hosted the public-accessible Rising Stars Challenge and All-Star practices.
Rosters, game times, and single-game tickets are still to be released. Contain your excitement, Jazz fans, great basketball comes to fans who wait. Or at least I hope so.