Best Buy Recap

It's explained in post on this thread

for the Best Buy story, Eric Pincus of Hoops(whatever).com joined the site back around the trade deadline in 2005 and told us that he saw Boozer at a Best Buy in SoCal and told Boozer that he needed to be traded to the Lakers and Boozer replied "we're trying". Since then, Best Buy has become an overused catch phrase on jazzfanz.

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There you have it

Saint Cy of JFC said:

There you have it

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Correct. Carlos Boozer trade rumor he supposedly told a reporter with little to no credibility in a Best Buy parking lot reference.

Jazz Fusion said:

Correct. Carlos Boozer trade rumor he supposedly told a reporter with little to no credibility in a Best Buy parking lot reference.

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Right, so then the parking lot at Best Buy jokingly became the secret place to sniff out Jazz-related rumors and intel.

Perfect. Thank you all!

I can’t vouch for the 2005 story since from February 2004 to February 2006 I was on my JFC sabbatical for my LDS mission, though still lurked occasionally. Really wish the board hadn’t crashed so I could go see if I ever posted over that span. Anyway, I remembered a second story in spring/summer of 2006 where someone else had seen Memo buying a TV at Best Buy. If I’m recalling, I think it was an amalgam of 2-3 legitimate (or at least purported to be legitimate and not meme stories) that all had a Best Buy connection that then turned it into the running meme.

There have been some good JazzFanzisms over the years but none has stood the test of time like Best Buy. Some notables:

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These are super old and have similar references...
https://jazzfanz.com/threads/mike-james-in-town.2071/#post-50011

Post in thread 'Another Boozer trade Rumor(I actually like it)'

Jul 1, 2010

Twin Towers said:

Not going to happen. Carter will not be on this team. Jazz would rather have AK than Carter. And no way the Magic trade for Okur. he is stuck with us like it or not. We are moronic for supporting him as our center over the past 4 years just because he shot the 3 ball well. While his help defense was horrible and guards got layups on us for years. I blame us as fans for supporting something that we knew wouldn't work. We knew for years that Okur and Boozer wouldn't work.

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Well, I was out in the Best Buy parking lot trying to get a deal done for Carlos, but he was hurt so much, there...

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I wondered if I had posted in that thread. I had.

@Handlogten's Heros @Elizah Huge get Pincus on the pod and surprise him with the best buy questions

I worked for Best Buy on 21st south back in 2004 - 2006. I saw a bunch of jazz players come in. Hornacek signed some stuff for me.

I remember saying stuff regularly about jazz players I saw at best buy. And then there was some sass about it. I didnt follow all of the posts but thought it was pretty silly that whatever was said about best buy became a joke.

And then the best buy legend kept going.

I am sure amongst the best buy posts I made there was additional fuel to the fire. But honestly I dont think i read the posts that made best buy legendary.

I think it was the collective more than a singular post. People just not believing one thing or another and multiple best buy jazz sitings and conjecture.

My memory isnt what it used to be but ai remember seeing Memo at best buy and talking about it.

This was around the life and times of Bobby Williams and Torrey Ellis.