Shorthanded Jazz hand Thunder 7th straight setback

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Bojan Bogdanovic scored 23 points, Donovan Mitchell added 22 and the shorthanded Utah Jazz bounced back from a rough first quarter to defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder 106-96 Tuesday night in Salt Lake City.

The loss, OKC’s seventh in a row, spoiled a career-high 42 points from the Thunder’s Lu Dort.

Utah played without three regulars — Joe Ingles (knee soreness), Royce O’Neale (rest) and Jordan Clarkson (ankle sprain) — but still had six players reach double-figure scoring and three register double-doubles to bounce back from Monday’s home loss to Washington.

Rudy Gobert came within three blocks of a triple-double, scor…

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