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Jazz Daily Links: Thursday

Jazz beat Clippers 102-91 to snap 13-game skid on Hayward's 33: As the Utah Jazz prepared to play a team they had not defeated in five years, coach Quin Snyder offered the following response when asked what he wanted most from his players. "Consistency," Snyder said, "whatever that means." -- Deseret News

Jazz beat Clippers 102-91, get back to .500 on the season: Gordon Hayward has been frustrated with his play and, after Monday's blowout loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, embarrassed. On Wednesday night, Hayward roared with pride as he made play after play to help lift his team to a 102-91 win over the Los Angeles Clippers. Hayward scored a season-high 33 points — 14 of them in the fourth quarter — and grabbed seven rebounds in a win that snapped a streak of 13 straight losses to the Clippers. -- The Salt Lake Tribune

Young Jazz hoping whistles start going their way: They've been roughed up and pushed around, held and harassed. Right now, teams know one of the best ways to stop the Utah Jazz is to get physical with them. "We move a lot," Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. -- The Salt Lake Tribune

Fan shows his long-distance, lifelong loyalty to Utah Jazz — all the way from Israel: When Gilad Perry was growing up, his favorite good guy from the "Transformers" TV show was an Autobot named Jazz. When the impressionable 12-year-old basketball fan saw the logo of an NBA team with the same name, it was love at first sight, even though he lived nearly 7,000 miles away from Salt Lake City. -- Deseret News