June 27, 1986
The Utah Jazz, with the 15th pick in the 1986 NBA draft, select Dell Curry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Dell, father of NBA brothers Stephen and Seth Curry, played his rookie year with the Utah Jazz. He stared in 67 games and registered an average of 9.5 minutes per contest.
The following summer, Jazz brass convened a meeting in which Scott Layden spoke in a moving fashion about trading Curry to another team. The organization, familiar with Layden’s prowess in landing Stockton and Malone, and knowing to some degree that Layden possessed a magical telephone booth that would show him the future, put their collective trust in Layden and his decision that, intellectually, didn’t make much sense. “There was just an overwhelming sense of peace that filled the room when Scotty spoke of trading Dell,” recalls former Jazz head coach Frank Layden. “We knew that, on paper, the deals didn’t look good at that point in time, but we each received a witness that if we made this trade, the gods would smile upon us and bring us success,” stated then assistant coach Jerry Sloan.
October 8, 1987
The Jazz package Kent Benson with Dell Curry and send them to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for Mel Turpin and Darryl Dawkins.
Dawkins appeared in 4 games with the Jazz, playing a total of 26 minutes and scoring a total of 6 points. On November 26 of that same year, the Jazz sent Darryl Dawkins to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for two future second round picks (Jeff Mo and Phil Henderson), who never played in an NBA game.
Mel Turpin played out the season in Utah, appearing in 79 contests, and averaging 12.8 minutes per game. The Jazz waived Turpin the following off-season on September 9.
Within one year, the ‘promise of the Dell Curry trade,’ as it is now known to be called, seemed to have faded away. Over the next 15 years the Jazz franchise watched Dell blossom into a legitimate starting 2-guard that would have complemented perfectly a Stockton and Malone tandem, averaging mid-teens in points during the 90s and shooting 40% on threes for his career.
July 8, 2010
Mel Turpin passes away at the age of 49.
August 27, 2015
Darryl Dawkins passes away at the age of 58.
With the passing of both Turpin and Dawkins, all within the Jazz front office declared the ‘Promise of the Dell Curry trade’ to have died with them. Faith in the feelings that were present in that trade meeting was now shattered. Their hope was perceived to be in vain, and watching the rise of Stephen Curry appeared to be Jazz brass’ past decisions haunting them from 30 years in the past.
March 25, 2018
The Jazz now faceoff against the reigning champions, the Golden State Warriors. Stephen Curry, son of Dell Curry, who leads this team, will not play in this game due to an MCL sprain he endured on Friday night and will remain out for at least three weeks. Klay Thompson remains out with a broken thumb. Draymond Green’s status is uncertain as he may be the only all-star present on the Golden State roster for this game. Kevin Durant remains sidelined while he recovers from his rib-removal surgery.
Durant, following in the footsteps of shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, had a pair of his lower ribs removed.
In the 1990s, the infamous rocker had his lower ribs removed to provide greater ease in which he may engage in self-gratification.
“I understand a lot of his pain because I feel he, like me, is misunderstood,” Durant stated to ESPN after his surgery. “When I left OKC, the world was against me. I became an outcast, a loner, a freak,” Durant recalls. “People said all those same negative things about him that they say about me. But you know what? It’s 25 years later and he’s still here giving everyone hell – just like I’ll be doing 20 years from now. So am I ashamed I’ve followed in his footsteps and removed my ribs for my own purposes? No. Hell no. You can print that.”
Delta Center, October 18, 1994
On the heels of the Larry H. Miller group announcing a day earlier that Marilyn Manson could not preform his opening act for Nine Inch Nails in The House That Larry Built, Manson, accompanied by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, took the stage to address the crowd:
“Do you let him [God] run your lives?,” Manson asked the crowd as he tore up a copy of The Book of Mormon. Larry Miller, feeling vindicated in his decision to prevent Manson from preforming, vows to never allow Manson to return to Utah as long as he lives. “Over my dead body,” Miller quipped when later asked about Manson ever playing a show again in the state.
March 19, 2018
Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson announce tour dates that includes Manson’s return to Utah in August of this year:
“You’re not honestly superstitious enough to believe in a dead man’s curse, are you?” Manson asked KBER’s Allen Handy on the Mick and Allen Show. “Larry Miller’s death was the end of his jurisdiction — I’m returning to Utah and I will dance on his grave.”
March 15, 2018
Tom Benson, owner of the New Orleans Pelicans, who had sworn to avenge the actions that led to the Jazz leaving New Orleans, passed away at the age of 90. Benson had passed away only 5 days after the Jazz had defeated the Pelicans in New Orleans. In the loss that he thought would ultimately destroy him, he found new healing. As he had a spiritual awakening after the loss, he realized that, as beloved as the Jazz were to him in the 1970s, that their true home was in the tops of the mountains, and that his New Orleans home now had its own franchise to root for. With this new perspective in hand, Benson was determined to mend broken bridges with Jazz owner Larry Miller.
Above, Benson reports to Larry Miller the current happenings of the NBA, and tells him of Kevin Durant’s plan to follow in Manson’s foot-steps. “I fought my entire life to keep Manson out of Utah – I’ll be damned if Kevin Durant lets Manson’s culture waltz right in to the NBA and then do a victory lap this summer with a concert at Usana!” Miller, determined, assembles Mel Turpin and Darryl Dawkins so that the three of them may restore the promise of the Dell Curry trade and to put the kibosh on Manson antics in the NBA.
“Here we are – send us!” Dawkins says to Miller. “Mel and I will return equal value to the Curry trade,” Dawkins continues, “and we will assist you in sending a message to Durant and his Manson crew.”
Dawkins and Turpin begin unleashing Larry’s wrath and start compromising GSW players’ health. In the video below, you see a phantom push from beyond the veil as Dawkins shoves Javele McGee down into Curry’s knee:
Below – Larry Miller gives Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert the keys to the kingdom by the laying on of hands, and restores upon their heads the promise and power of the Curry trade.
The Jazz will be playing with extra help from the other side this Sunday, something the Warriors could never game-plan for.
The Utah Jazz, with the 15th pick in the 1986 NBA draft, select Dell Curry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Dell, father of NBA brothers Stephen and Seth Curry, played his rookie year with the Utah Jazz. He stared in 67 games and registered an average of 9.5 minutes per contest.
The following summer, Jazz brass convened a meeting in which Scott Layden spoke in a moving fashion about trading Curry to another team. The organization, familiar with Layden’s prowess in landing Stockton and Malone, and knowing to some degree that Layden possessed a magical telephone booth that would show him the future, put their collective trust in Layden and his decision that, intellectually, didn’t make much sense. “There was just an overwhelming sense of peace that filled the room when Scotty spoke of trading Dell,” recalls former Jazz head coach Frank Layden. “We knew that, on paper, the deals didn’t look good at that point in time, but we each received a witness that if we made this trade, the gods would smile upon us and bring us success,” stated then assistant coach Jerry Sloan.
October 8, 1987
The Jazz package Kent Benson with Dell Curry and send them to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for Mel Turpin and Darryl Dawkins.
Dawkins appeared in 4 games with the Jazz, playing a total of 26 minutes and scoring a total of 6 points. On November 26 of that same year, the Jazz sent Darryl Dawkins to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for two future second round picks (Jeff Mo and Phil Henderson), who never played in an NBA game.
Mel Turpin played out the season in Utah, appearing in 79 contests, and averaging 12.8 minutes per game. The Jazz waived Turpin the following off-season on September 9.
Within one year, the ‘promise of the Dell Curry trade,’ as it is now known to be called, seemed to have faded away. Over the next 15 years the Jazz franchise watched Dell blossom into a legitimate starting 2-guard that would have complemented perfectly a Stockton and Malone tandem, averaging mid-teens in points during the 90s and shooting 40% on threes for his career.
July 8, 2010
Mel Turpin passes away at the age of 49.
August 27, 2015
Darryl Dawkins passes away at the age of 58.
With the passing of both Turpin and Dawkins, all within the Jazz front office declared the ‘Promise of the Dell Curry trade’ to have died with them. Faith in the feelings that were present in that trade meeting was now shattered. Their hope was perceived to be in vain, and watching the rise of Stephen Curry appeared to be Jazz brass’ past decisions haunting them from 30 years in the past.
March 25, 2018
The Jazz now faceoff against the reigning champions, the Golden State Warriors. Stephen Curry, son of Dell Curry, who leads this team, will not play in this game due to an MCL sprain he endured on Friday night and will remain out for at least three weeks. Klay Thompson remains out with a broken thumb. Draymond Green’s status is uncertain as he may be the only all-star present on the Golden State roster for this game. Kevin Durant remains sidelined while he recovers from his rib-removal surgery.
Durant, following in the footsteps of shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, had a pair of his lower ribs removed.
In the 1990s, the infamous rocker had his lower ribs removed to provide greater ease in which he may engage in self-gratification.
“I understand a lot of his pain because I feel he, like me, is misunderstood,” Durant stated to ESPN after his surgery. “When I left OKC, the world was against me. I became an outcast, a loner, a freak,” Durant recalls. “People said all those same negative things about him that they say about me. But you know what? It’s 25 years later and he’s still here giving everyone hell – just like I’ll be doing 20 years from now. So am I ashamed I’ve followed in his footsteps and removed my ribs for my own purposes? No. Hell no. You can print that.”
Delta Center, October 18, 1994
On the heels of the Larry H. Miller group announcing a day earlier that Marilyn Manson could not preform his opening act for Nine Inch Nails in The House That Larry Built, Manson, accompanied by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, took the stage to address the crowd:
“Do you let him [God] run your lives?,” Manson asked the crowd as he tore up a copy of The Book of Mormon. Larry Miller, feeling vindicated in his decision to prevent Manson from preforming, vows to never allow Manson to return to Utah as long as he lives. “Over my dead body,” Miller quipped when later asked about Manson ever playing a show again in the state.
March 19, 2018
Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson announce tour dates that includes Manson’s return to Utah in August of this year:
“You’re not honestly superstitious enough to believe in a dead man’s curse, are you?” Manson asked KBER’s Allen Handy on the Mick and Allen Show. “Larry Miller’s death was the end of his jurisdiction — I’m returning to Utah and I will dance on his grave.”
March 15, 2018
Tom Benson, owner of the New Orleans Pelicans, who had sworn to avenge the actions that led to the Jazz leaving New Orleans, passed away at the age of 90. Benson had passed away only 5 days after the Jazz had defeated the Pelicans in New Orleans. In the loss that he thought would ultimately destroy him, he found new healing. As he had a spiritual awakening after the loss, he realized that, as beloved as the Jazz were to him in the 1970s, that their true home was in the tops of the mountains, and that his New Orleans home now had its own franchise to root for. With this new perspective in hand, Benson was determined to mend broken bridges with Jazz owner Larry Miller.
Above, Benson reports to Larry Miller the current happenings of the NBA, and tells him of Kevin Durant’s plan to follow in Manson’s foot-steps. “I fought my entire life to keep Manson out of Utah – I’ll be damned if Kevin Durant lets Manson’s culture waltz right in to the NBA and then do a victory lap this summer with a concert at Usana!” Miller, determined, assembles Mel Turpin and Darryl Dawkins so that the three of them may restore the promise of the Dell Curry trade and to put the kibosh on Manson antics in the NBA.
“Here we are – send us!” Dawkins says to Miller. “Mel and I will return equal value to the Curry trade,” Dawkins continues, “and we will assist you in sending a message to Durant and his Manson crew.”
Dawkins and Turpin begin unleashing Larry’s wrath and start compromising GSW players’ health. In the video below, you see a phantom push from beyond the veil as Dawkins shoves Javele McGee down into Curry’s knee:
Below – Larry Miller gives Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert the keys to the kingdom by the laying on of hands, and restores upon their heads the promise and power of the Curry trade.
The Jazz will be playing with extra help from the other side this Sunday, something the Warriors could never game-plan for.
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