The NBA A History of Hoops The Story of the Utah Jazz Nate LeBoutillier C R E AT I V E D I G I TA L CREATIVE DIGITAL Utah Jazz The NBA A History of Hoops The Story of the Nate LeBoutillier
T a b l e o f Co n t e n t s WHEN OPPOSITES ATTRACT 8 MARAVICH THE MAGNIFICENT 16 PLAYING IN A TRAVELING BAND 22 TEMPO ALLEGRO 30 CHANGING THEIR TUNE 40 INDEX 48 CO U R T S I D E S TO R I E S RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING 11 THE PISTOL FIRES FOR 68 21 FANS TURN ON TO JAZZ 24 PUSHED ASIDE FOREVER REMEMBERED 29 UTAH’S HOUSE OF HOOPS 32 VOICE OF THE JAZZ 46 INTRODUCING PETE MARAVICH 12 FRANK LAYDEN 15 ADRIAN DANTLEY 19 JOHN STOCKTON 26 KARL MALONE 35 JERRY SLOAN 43 Table of Contents COURTSIDE STORIES INTRODUCING
WHEN OPPOSITES ATTRACT SALT LAKE CITY UTAH BECAME THE EVENTUAL HOME OF THE SOUTHERN-BORN JAZZ 8 WHEN OPPOSITES ATTRACT
PETE MARAVICH The city of New Orleans Louisiana is an ongoing party of revelry gumbo and jazz founded by French explorers in bayou territory deep in the American South Salt Lake City Utah has a clean religious feel founded as it was in the mountain and high-desert terrain of the American West by Brigham Young the leader of the Latter Day Saints for what has become the Mormon Church So what on earth could these two very different cities have in common One needs to go back to the 1970s to uncover an answer The year specifically was 1974 when a new National Basketball Association NBA franchise began play in New Orleans Ownership invoked an instant sense of historical pride when it named its new team the Jazz in honor of the only major form of music to be invented in the United States and birthed in New Orleans In keeping with 9
