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Spencer Haywood (1979)
Ron Boone (1980-1981)
Danny Schayes (1982-1983)
Raymond Brown (1990)
Jeff Malone (1991-1994)
Raul Lopez (2004-2005)
Paul Millsap (2007-2012)

Decemeber 14, 2009 the Jazz lost to the Minny Wolfs by 2 points. It was the Jazz's 24th game of the season, Millsap, who was 24 years old, played 13 seconds shy of 24 minutes in the game. He and Boozer combined for 24 fg attempts in the game, but Milsap and Boozer were outscored by Love and Big Al Jefferson by 7 points and out rebounded by 9.

On january 3, 1989 John Stockton had 24 assists against Houston. He also had games of 28,27, and 26 assists but I missed it on those days.
 
All-time Jazz ranks at 24:

Points: Jim McElroy (3,188)
Rebounds: Aaron James (1,470)
Assists: Ben Poquette (554)
Steals: Nate Williams (250)
Blocks: N/A - Carey Scurry and Truck Robinson are tied at 23 - see tomorrow's thread
Games played: The recently-departed CJ Miles (389)
 
In 1979-80, their first season in Utah, the Jazz won 24 games. Ron Boone wore no. 24 that year. John Brown played in 24 minutes spread out over 4 games. Bernard King collected 24 offensive rebounds for the Jazz that season.

In their 24th season of existence (1997-98) the Jazz were more successfull, going 62-20 and reached the NBA finals for the second straight year. Greg Ostertag was 24 at the start of the season and Shandon Anderson turned 24 during the season. The Jazz ranked 24th in the league in number of opponent 3PFG, giving up 401.

By thheir 24th season in Utah the Jazz were on the decline as Stockton and Malone aged. The team went 47-35. Jarron Collins turned 24 about a month into the season. The Jazz ranked 24th in minutes played (obviously most of the league played more OT games) and in defensive rebounds. The Jazz ranked 24th in opponent FTM and FTA, although this didnt' correspond to ranking 24th in oppenent FT% (they were 14th in that).
 
by the time #24 spencer haywood played for utah, the five-time allstar was on the downhill side of his career. however, despite being a shadow of his former self and only appearing in 38 games, he averaged exactly 24.0 ppg that season, which was enough to entice the lakers to give up a young, promising kid by the name of adrian dantley. the jazz swapped haywood for AD, and the latter instantly became the focal point of the jazz's offense and a star. he was an all-star his first season in utah, and led the league in scoring when he was 24.

btw, the jazz traded joe meriweather to get haywood. meriweather was 24 when they acquired him for a future 1st round pick that wound up being jack givens, a guy who was out of the league a few months before he even turned 24.

so essentially the jazz got AD, the defining star of the early 80s version of the team, for a guy who only played two seasons in the league: givens for meriweather, meriweather for haywood, haywood for AD.

(more 24 stuff later... lunch time.)
 
John Brown (noted earlier) is the only Jazz player to have played a total of 24 minutes in a Jazz uniform. I'm sure that's rounded, but still.
 
Lamar Green is the only player with exactly 24 FGs with the Jazz.

2 players, Dee Brown and Ron Lee, made exactly 24 FTs in their Jazz careers.

2 players, Kenny Natt and Stu Lantz, gathered exactly 24 rebounds with the Jazz.

Jeremy Evans is the lone Jazz player with exactly 24 turnovers with the Jazz.
 
marvin williams wore #24 as a hawk, but obviously had to pick a new number when he came in the july trade because millsap holds that number. marvin's first instinct was to change to #4, but that number is retired for AD, so he chose #2. (note: i think that the actual rules give marvin the right to keep #24 since he has one more year of tenure in the league than millsap, but he's apparently deferring to the guy who has the most tenure wearing #24 HERE.)

when tom gugliotta (a career #24) came to utah in a midseason trade, he chose to take the inverse of his favorite number (#42) instead of force raul lopez to change numbers midseason. when the jazz took gugliotta's contract from the suns, the move enabled them to acquire kirk snyder (who was out of the league at age 24), gordon hayward, and a draft pick that they then traded for a chance to grab ante tomic (who was 24 until this past february). meanwhile, googs wasn't a total salary dump, as the jazz did get 24 starts out of him that year.

pavel podkolzin wore #24 in dallas long enough to play 28 total minutes in his NBA career, during which his grand total of points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, turnovers, fouls and field goal attempts was ... 24. the jazz made the pick for the mavericks because they had acquired the 2004 21st pick in the glen rice/john amaechi salary dump trade. they sent it to dallas for a 2005 pick that they packaged to move up for deron williams.
 
Ronnie Brewer is ranked 24th all-time in 3PAs with the Jazz. He had 24 assists and 24 TOs in his rookie season with the Jazz. He was traded to the Grizzlies in a salary dump a month and 2 days before turning 24. The draft pick the Jazz received from the Brewer trade was in turn traded to the Timberwolves in the Al Jefferson trade. Kosta Koufus, also part of that trade, started 24 games with the Nuggets last year and recorded 24 steals. The pick was used by the Timberwolves to select Donatas Motiejunas from Lithuania. Motiejunas didn't sign with the Wolves and was subsequently traded to the Houston Rockets. In that trade, Brad Miller went to the Timberwolves. In what was likely his last NBA season, Miller had 24 assists. Miller was included in a 3-team trade this July that also involved 24-year old Robin Lopez. Lopez went to Stanford, as did former Jazzman Jarron Collins, whose career averages (including time with other teams) for ppg, mpg, FTAs per game, and personal fouls per game add up to 24.
 
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