The Jazz rampaged to a 19-10 record after the trade deadline by transforming, on a dime, from one of the league's five worst defensive teams into its stingiest. Two lineup changes happened right before the Jazz took off: Utah traded Enes Kanter, opening a starting spot for Rudy Gobert, a.k.a. the Stifle Tower, and Quin Snyder swapped Dante Exum into the starting lineup over Trey Burke.
Exum tore his ACL on Tuesday while playing for the Australian national team in an exhibition game against Slovenia, quickly undoing one of those changes. The news is sending Jazz Nation into a panic and apparently jeopardizing Utah's status as everyone's favorite "Cinderella" playoff contender that isn't actually a Cinderella at all. This injury will almost certainly cost Exum the full 2015-16 season.