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Why are you a Jazz fan?

midnight_hwy said:
Having grown up in Utah, it was hard not to be a fan.

It started all the way back in the days of Ron Boone, Zelmo Beaty and Moses Malone and the ol' Utah Stars, and then when the Jazz moved to town with Pistol Pete, it was just natural to follow the Jazz, through the good and the bad years.
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Wow, another old-timer like me! I was a little boy back in the ABA days. Still remember shooting hoops in the driveway with my red, white and blue basketball, pretending to shoot 3's and practicing FT's using the old "2 to make 1" and "3 to make 2" rules. My father was a sportswriter at the time and we'd sit in the press section. It was a small sports publication, so I never got to meet any of the players though.
 
Zulu said:
Cuz of my fathers, father!!!
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Similar to me. My Grandparents were really into the Jazz. Whenever I went to there house it seemed like they were either watching a Jazz game or getting ready for one.

Ironically, my parents both could care less. I guess it skips a generation. I love basketball and the NBA but both of my parents as well as my kids could care less. They think it is a waste of time.
 
Born in Utah.

And, the jazz used to play basketball the way it was meant to be played. They used to play with tough defense, great unselfish offense, and max effort. They do none of that now.

So while I will always have a special place for the jazz in my heart, unless SERIOUS changes are made, ill find another team to cheer for.

The most telling tale is probably our last greatest memory of jazz Basketball. Remember how a heavily favored nuggets team got up 1-0 against us in the first round? Remember how memo's Achilles snapped? We were on route to be swept. When all of a sudden jazz basketball kicked in. Tough physical play, flawless offensive execution, great defensive effort, and just effort in general (even fess looked half decent) was to the max. The jazz knew that stern and the rest of the nation wanted to see the hip and tatted up nugheads over us. we didnt care. we gave the league the finger and kicked denver out of the playoffs. I don't care what happened afterwards. That Series was Jazz basketball in a nutshell. That was over 3 years ago. Since then, jazz basketball has been completely lost.

The last 3 season have been worthless and not entertaining at all. Id love to watch harpring, Malone, Stockton, memo, Matthews, etc busting their asses and jerry being restrained by phil than watching Big Al and Mo chuck and man boobs "loving" his guys.
 
The Thriller said:
The last 3 season have been worthless and not entertaining at all. Id love to watch harpring, Malone, Stockton, memo, Matthews, etc busting their asses and jerry being restrained by phil than watching Big Al and Mo chuck and man boobs "loving" his guys.
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I like it.
 
I picked a random team, bit I didn't want to choose a big market team, I always prefer an underdog. I also thought the jazz were a good choice because I'm white, whether that males sense or not.

anyway the first few games I watched were the eastern road trip where the jazz had huge comebacks every game including the miracle in Miami. I loved the fight the team showed and ive been hooked ever since.
 
I never liked NBA basketball when I was a kid growing up in Maryland, was much more of a college hoops guy. Came to Utah for college in the early 90s. Some other guys in my dorm must have had a Jazz game on one day and I started watching. It didn't take very long for me to see what I didn't like was Bullets (Wizards) basketball. Stockton, Malone, and Sloan won me over in short order. Been a fan ever since even though I've lived outside of Utah for most of that time.
 
For those who converted over to Jazz basketball...welcome to the Dark Side. For those who were born into a Jazz-family, "don't stop believing" (cue the Journey song). Some day - and it might be in the life hereafter - your faith and longsuffering will be rewarded. I say that without a shadow of a doubt. Amen.
 
I went to my first game during the 82-83 season and was hooked. I ended up going to 20 games that year and bought season tickets the next year. I have had season tickets ever since, although for the last 10 years or so I split them with someone else and only go to 20 games per year.
 
Larry Miller, Jerry Sloan, and Hot Rod Hundley. Three guys who loved basketball and loved their team. And it showed! Seriously, if you listened to a game, back in the days before League Pass and cable broadcasts of all the games, there were two broadcasters who were head and shoulders above all the rest: Chick Hearn and Hot Rod: "good if it goes, frozen rope, leapin' leaner, hippity-hop dribble, you gotta love it baby." I'd have to say Hot Rod might be one of the main reasons I listened to Jazz basketball before Stockton and Malone arrived to give Utah a winning team. You could virtually "see" the game by listening to Hot Rod's radio broadcasts
 
Born a jazz fan will die one. My mom took me to a game when I was 8 or 9. It was tough being a jazz fan in my home, asi couldn't watch tv past 6pm till I hit 7th grade. Spent a lot of time listening to the game on radio. I was the only jazz fan. Parents didn't care about sports and my bros's were fans of the bulls and hawks. Over time the hawks and bulls stoped winning and they are now just bandwagon jazz fans who know so little about the team one of my brothers thinks the jazz will be dumb not to offer Al the max, and the other one thinks the jazz shouldn't have traded Williams even though he'd have left us high and dry anyway, so honestly I still consider myself the only fan in my family.
 
Because the Jazz are just so freaking awesome and everyone else sucks. Leaves only one option
 
1997 - Now. The love ain't gon stop!

Though I wish we'd quit acting like some farm-bred team and allow players a little more leniency (headbands, for instance)
 
im an exiled knicks fan, watching the knicks put me in a permanent bad mood.

all i ever wanted was a bunch of young players to root for, we even had them

D. Lee, Nate Robinson, Gallinari, Wilson Chandler,

the Amare signing was great, they never should have broken that team apart. or added to it, they should have played it out, i hated the melo trade, and the tyson chandler signing

once i kinda knew that was gonna be what killed the knicks the next few years, i was sick of watching

also i follow the draft religiously and the knicks NEVER ever ever ever took the players i wanted. except shumpert (i was hoping for burks@17, Shumpert was next for me on combo guards)... but that was after the fact.

all the knicks fans hated my suggustion of trading whatever assets up for a top pick for kanter...

i had kanter #1 on my board(so i decided to be a fan of whatever team drafted him, and here i am)
2 Kyrie
3Kemba
4Knight
5Leonard ( i had him about on par with Aminu and this was a weaker draft...)

with burks and shumpert near the top 10

also i had Bismack Biyombo over Jonas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_SB-ZKAhGM

we should swap some assets for this guy and Gerald Henderson...
 
@PG_AB I love Wilson Chandler, would love to have him. He's Lebron w/o the basketball skills. Lebron-esque size/strength/athleticism though. What's John Starks up to these days?
 
Gameface said:
When I was real young, early 80s, my dad said the NBA was okay but really only during the playoffs. I remember him watching the Utah-Lakers series with Pat Riley and Frank Laden. I think he really became a Jazz fan after that series. Coincidentally that was also a time when two of the greatest players of all time played for the jazz and were getting better and better every year. I didn't pay much attention until my parents bought a used car from a LHM dealership and got nosebleed seats in the brand new Delta Center. My mom and dad went to the first game, which was against Golden State or something and it was lame. My dad took me to the Bulls game. It went triple OT, Jordan got ejected, I had lost my voice and the Jazz won. I was hooked.
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ditto
 
PearlWatson said:
ditto
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You're a Jazz fan because you also went to the triple overtime Bulls game where Jordan got ejected with tickets your parents got for free buying a used car from LHM? Wow. Were you also sitting behind a guy bagging on Eaton the whole game who left at the end of the third qtr so he could beat traffic since there was no way the Jazz could win? That would be super crazy.
 
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