The Utah Jazz will visit the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center on Thursday.

These two teams saw wildly different outcomes last season, as the Jazz made a surprise playoff push while the Kings finished with a high lottery pick. Both teams will look to pick up where they left off last season, as Utah hopes to stay healthy and make a playoff run, while Sacramento looks to introduce new faces to its young core.

The Jazz (0-0) finished fifth in the Western Conference last season, winning 48 games and having one of the league's strongest records after the All-Star Break. Much of Utah's late success can be attributed to the return of French big man Rudy Gobert, who won Defensive Player of the Year honors despite missing 26 games due to injury. While Gobert anchored the team defensively, the story of Utah's season was the emergence of rookie superstar Donovan Mitchell. The Louisville product averaged 20.5 points and 3.7 assists per game in his debut season. Building around the powerhouse tandem of Mitchell and Gobert, the Jazz will hope to return to the playoffs for the third straight season this year. Veterans Ricky Rubio, Joe Ingles, and Derrick Favors will be returning to fill out Utah's starting five.

Sacramento (0-0), on the other hand, is a team that is not nearly as poised to make a playoff push. At 27-55 last season, the Kings finished just 12th in the Western Conference. The offseason brought change for Sacramento, though, in the form of exciting new additions. Sacramento chose Duke product Marvin Bagley with the second overall pick in the 2018 draft, and the big man figures to be an immediate difference-maker in the Kings' lineup. Bagley's college tenure was impressive to say the least, as he averaged 21 points and 11.1 rebounds per game while earning ACC Player of the Year Honors. Now, he will join fellow Duke product Harry Giles in the Kings' frontcourt. Giles, a 2017 draft pick, missed the 2017-18 season to rehab from a knee injury. However, he impressed in preseason, averaging over 13 points and 5 rebounds in just 22 minutes per game. Both anticipated young big men will see their first taste of NBA action in Thursday's contest.