Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith on how Utah is becoming a major sports destination

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Ryan Smith, owner of Utah Hockey Club and Utah Jazz, joins CNBC’s ‘Squawk on the Street’ to discuss rising NHL team …

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@CompetitionSportsNetwork February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Not buying it, Utah teams never win anything so how could it become a hot spot for sports?

@JimYeats February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

With all the sexual tension Utah has I could imagine that sports would be a good outlet to vent. As long as the Mormon Mafia gets its cut I’m sure everything will be fine.

@imsa15463 February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Utah does not have a track record of attracting and keeping top talent. Only one major Sports franchise, and every time the best player on that team has had the opportunity to go to a bigger market they did. ( Deron Williams, Donavan Mitchell, Gordon Hayward). SLC still has a reputation for being dull, smelly ( great salt lake) and terrible for someone wants the PR that a place like LA or NYC can bring. So this Ryan Smith is blowing smoke.

@angryCOMMguy February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Ryan needs to fund his pet projects, not the tax payers.

@MichaelLindsay-uo7tg February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Ryan bringing LGBTQ to Utah Utahns hate him

@ed5378 February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Are they gonna Build a New Hockey Arena for Olympics and then it can be used for Utah Hockey Team 🏒

@robertsmart9829 February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

So why does he need massive tax dollars if he is making that?

@TWellington February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

He owns a piece of real salt lake, funny how they never mention that.

@dmvtrax645 February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Utah needs to work on the racism.

@rushrush1209 February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Utah's NHL situation isn't really comparable to Vegas or Seattle. Vegas and Seattle were expansion teams. The Utah team isn't an expansion, as it was in Arizona last year.

@dirkbabka1324 February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Gail Miller Shouldn’t Of Sold The Team To This Putz What A Class Act Compared To This Jerk

@dirkbabka1324 February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Ryan Smith Is An Arrogant , Self Righteous Billionaire Idiot , Also Ryan Dress Like Owner Instead Of Little Kid With Your Hat Backwards

@duane9166 February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Since the Millers sold the Jazz to Ryan Smith, he has:
– Traded the one all-star happy to live in Utah for a bunch of high-risk draft picks
– Traded its other all-star for more high-risk picks rather than securing an all-star in return
– Purposely downgraded a playoff team to the worst team in the league
– Dumped the iconic original and desert sunrise alternate jerseys for high school JV team jerseys and the least attractive historical jerseys
– To be original, made black and white a color theme when the Nets and Spurs already use that
– Ended the Jazz being the one thing that unifies everyone in Utah by grossly overpaying to bring an NHL team to a market with no interest in hockey (2 minor league teams have failed there, including one that had a new arena purpose-built for them)
– Lauds all the economic development that’ll happen downtown while almost no Salt Lakers can afford to ski anymore thanks to the 2002 Olympics, or to buy or rent a place to live thanks to having the booming tech economy he bragged about in this piece

I’m all for passion and progress as long as it isn’t snake oil, and so far he’s been nothing but a snake oil salesman. I’m ready to see him step up and ACTUALLY do something that helps the Jazz and everyday Utahns, rather than sell everyone his snake oil

@Tom-fl9bb February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Utah Hockey Club! It's like EU Football Club style naming! Simple and intuitive 👍

@StarAlice-f1i February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

Lol, bro, better record a video about Cryptonica ATM, thats real money out there.

@suzanw4 February 20, 2025 - 7:24 am

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