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Basketball Legend Frank Layden Has Passed Away

Damn. Recently I had seen how old he was and knew this would come sooner than later. I really believe our franchise is missing some identity. I'm not huge on continuing things just because, and there was probably too much of that under numerous previous administrations, but this franchise has been completely gutted of any lifers and there are many "temps." I remember many years ago @Ron Mexico had mentioned that he'd been a fan of the team long before any of the current players were associated with it, and would still be a fan long after they were gone. What I didn't anticipate happening was that this same thing would more or less hold true about the franchise pieces as a whole and was coming quite soon. I think two of the most underrated things in Jazz history is Larry H. Miller and the Layden family. I've been meaning for some time to make a long appreciation post on Scotty. He was dynamite as our GM. I honestly have no idea what he did to the Knicks and his tenure with Minnesota was fairly unremarkable, but we had him back for who-knows-how-many years as an assistant coach, but what I think this franchise really needs is some kind of connection to our identity and if I owned the team, I'd be bringing Scott in in some capacity.

RIP, Frank. We'll see you in the diamond section.
 
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Image of Frank posted w/o context. I wish he could have seen the jazz win a championship. One of the great basketball personalities. If there is something we can learn from Frank is don't take life too seriously.
 
Truly a nice person.
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Back when the Rocky Mountain Review was at SLCC I was getting drinks for my son (6) at the time, and I couldn't hold his hand since I was carrying the drinks and it was super crowded as it was between games. And I noticed my son was no longer by my side, long story short, I wasn't watching where I was going and full on walked into him pretty hard. And before I could even say sorry he was apologizing to me and it was totally my fault.

And then I realized who it was and my brain just locked up, couldn't think of what to say and my brain was still focused to find my son. Then off in my left peripheral vision my son's shorts caught my eye just several steps away. So I hand him his drink and grab his hand, and look back feeling guilty and coach Layden gave me a small smile, and just like that the guilt went away (mostly) as it felt like he understood.
 
RIP. Frank was responsible for the 3 most important figures in Utah Jazz basketball history...he drafted Stockton and Malone and hired Sloan. He was a class act and one of the biggest characters ever in the NBA.
 
infection said:
Damn. Recently I had seen how old he was and knew this would come sooner than later. I really believe our franchise is missing some identity. I'm not huge on continuing things just because, and there was probably too much of that under numerous previous administrations, but this franchise has been completely gutted of any lifers and there are many "temps." I remember many years ago @Ron Mexico had mentioned that he'd been a fan of the team long before any of the current players were associated with it, and would still be a fan long after they were gone. What I didn't anticipate happening was that this same thing would more or less hold true about the franchise pieces as a whole and was coming quite soon. I think two of the most underrated things in Jazz history is Larry H. Miller and the Layden family. I've been meaning for some time to make a long appreciation post on Scotty. He was dynamite as our GM. I honestly have no idea what he did to the Knicks and his tenure with Minnesota was fairly unremarkable, but we had him back for who-knows-how-many years as an assistant coach, but what I think this franchise really needs is some kind of connection to our identity and if I owned the team, I'd be bringing Scott in in some capacity.

RIP, Frank. We'll see you in the diamond section.
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Great post. Thank you. And I agree.
 
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