Best Buy Recap

[Handlogten's Heros]

I'm getting old and I need one of the OGs to give me a recap/reminder of the origin story for the Best Buy joke we always made. It has relevance and a purpose as it will come up on the podcast we record tonight. I don't want to butcher it but also don't need all the details.

Can anyone help jog my memory here. Tagging @infection

 

[homeytennis]

If I remember correctly, it involves the Minivan in his first trip through Salt Lake and I've forgotten is he was a member of the Stars or Jazz at the time. Supposedly the gossip came straight from his mouth or his neighbor or landlord and was relayed by the poster who overheard it in the Best Buy parking lot. .

 

[SoberasHotRod]

If I remember correctly, it involves the Minivan in his first trip through Salt Lake and I've forgotten is he was a member of the Stars or Jazz at the time. Supposedly the gossip came straight from his mouth or his neighbor or landlord and was relayed by the poster who overheard it in the Best Buy parking lot. .

I don't really remember, so you could be right, but I thought this was way before Georges Niang.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I don't really remember, so you could be right, but I thought this was way before Georges Niang.

It pre-dates the minivan by a lot.

 

[NAOS_pt2]

I can't remember the details, but it's definitely waaay before Niang. I think @fishonjazz has a decent shot of remembering.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I can't remember the details, but it's definitely waaay before Niang. I think @fishonjazz has a decent shot of remembering.

2013 or before lol. I can't find the origin story through a search. I will likely just rehash the story the way I want lol.

 

[Qman]

It was Deron Williams and boozer in twitter with some disreputable reporter.

 

[default]

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

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.

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...

• Stifle Tower

 

[fishonjazz]

I can't remember the details, but it's definitely waaay before Niang. I think @fishonjazz has a decent shot of remembering.

I got nothin

 

[fishonjazz]

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

Crazy to see the names/posters in that thread lol.
Thanks for the nostalgia

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Isn't there an archive of the old Jazzfanz somewhere?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I feel like @infection would have better details

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Thread 'My personal Best Buy discussion'

Sep 24, 2012

So, I don't think I completely understand the Best Buy story. Let me just summarize it (to the best of my understanding). Someone went to Best Buy. There was a Jazz player there. The fan talked with the Jazz player and got some juicy information that turned out to be false. Is that right?

Anyway, I talked to a very good friend today. Months ago he said that Marvin Williams (who he played AAU ball with) would be a perfect fit for the Jazz and that Harris was the likely trade bait to make it happen. That was back in January. Low and behold, the Jazz have Williams and they don't have...

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It's explained in post on this thread

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

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.

There you have it

 

[Jazz Fusion]

There you have it

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

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

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

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

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Perfect. Thank you all!

 

[infection]

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:

“What’s a skillet?”
Pillow fort.
19-13.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

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

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.

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...

• Stifle Tower

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