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Non-Utah folks: how did you become a Jazz fan?

Grew up in south Texas and I joined my first city league team when I was 6. My team happened to be the Utah Jazz so I became a Utah Jazz fan.
 
Like a few others, when I was a little kid, I played lakers vs celtics on the compute. This was the late 80's at the time.
I always wanted to play with the team who had the tallest player in the league.
This just happened to be mark eaton at 7'4" I'm pretty sure.
So with the Jazz having the tallest player, I always played with them and my undying love for them grew from this.
Sad but true....


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Was a Rondo and Celtics fan then when we drafted Exum and got Joe, I started following the Jazz, for some reasons all the players names and their tendencies just stuck, i wanted to know everything about them and quite soon a missed open 3 or a potentially great assist un-converted fired me up and i knew the cletics meant nothing to me. As an Aussie, I would love us to get Bogut and Patty Mills yet even if we trade Joe and Dante i wouldn't love the jazz any less. 4 hats and 4 jerseys later here i am planning a Trip to Utah in 2 to 3 years time to coincide with a home game stretch while also working it out to see a few away games when im in diffrent parts of the country. I would of been there for playoffs but I've got a 15 month old so it has to wait a few years. Sometimes i call my wife Robyn and ask do you need some G-time just to trigger her, thats not going to fly if we lose Hayward. I'm really scared he his going to leave, i hate how the whole team is literally held to ransom by his decision.

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Half our fan base exists because of a crappy DOS computer game lmao. Game should get its own banner in the Delta Center.

"using your expiring assets to add depth to the squad rocks the boat too violently and may destroy our delicately balanced beamed cakk bakk" - me
 
Like others, I used to play with the Jazz on Lakers vs Celtics in the very early 90s. The video resolution of the game was bad. I knew nothing about the Jazz or about NBA basketball, but Stockton was very quick and, hence, a very distinct player; Eaton was a giant and Malone quick for a big player. Then, in 1992, came out a game called Tecmo NBA Basketball and I was really hooked. I kept playing with the Jazz. A few years later, circa 1995, I begun to collect basketball cards. I think they were not available here in Brazil before that time - or perhaps I just did not notice them. By collecting the cards, I noticed how good - and consistent - Stockton and Malone stats were. At the time, NBA games became more often available here, on cable, and I just begun to track the Jazz. I remember rooting for them during the 1995 playoffs, when the team was eliminated in the first round by the Rockets. From that point onwards, I begun to buy magazines like The Sporting News - which always published a preview of the season. I tracked the Jazz through the Brazilian newspapers also. I remember that when Stockton broke the all-time assist record, a short note was published. Around 1997, I begun to have access to the NBA.com website and to the scores and stats and that solidified my affection to the Jazz. I remember being a little upset that Stockton was not leading the league in assists for the first time in a decade. During that season, I begun reading The Deseret News and The Salt Lake Tribune online almost daily, a habit that I kept for around ten years. I used to tape all the Jazz games in TV. I did so from the 1996-97 season through Stockton retirement. I still have most of the tapes. Overall, it has been more than twenty years following the Jazz and I have no complaints. Stockton, Malone and Sloan were examples of hard work and no-nonse and were, to some extent, my role models during my youth years. Besides, my English developed quickly due to so much exposition to the language. Despite the Jazz never winning, I have no complaints.

P.S.: I follow the discussions at this site since slightly after his creation, circa 2005, if I remember correctly.
 
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I was born in 1975, first heard that a league like NBA exists in 1988, when Atlanta Hawks played 3 exhibition games against the Soviet Union team. I remember a line in a local newspaper regarding whether USSR would win or not - USSR lost big against Bucks during the tour in the USA; however Bucks lost to Hawks and Hawks lost to Celtics in the Playoffs therefore the chances are quite slim. USSR won the last exhibition game.

After that i was briefly a Phoenix Suns fan - maybe because they had good white players (Hornacek, Majerle and Chambers) and even back then for some odd reason when Suns faced the Lakers in the conference finals and lost 0:4, i could not root for Lakers. Although i wanted the same glasses that Jabbar and Worthy wore :-)

I discovered the Lakers vs Celtics game around 1992 and when my father worked at Siberian oil fields with americans during the 1992-1994 then one of them brought me the Hoops magazine. Then i discovered that John Stockton is little bit similar to Tiit Sokk. After that i played also with Jazz whenever possible. Won the championship with the hardest difficulty in NBA Live 97, 97, 2001 and 2004 :-)

However, the first Jazz related forum (where i was a member) was Jazzhoops. For some reason they kicked away most of the members around 2005 or 2006 and i had to choose Jazzfanz.
 
I kind of knew each NBA team and followed several ones over the years without being a fan of any. Then I started to follow the Utah Jazz closely few years ago and I liked pretty much everything about it.. fanbase, ownership, Jazzfanz, culture, players, colors/jerseys, management.. I wrote all the reasons here.
 
As a kid, I was a Lakers showtime fan because all you can watch on TV was the Lakers vs. Celtics. I was fortunate to have lived in the US for a year and got access
to more NBA games on TV and became a fan of the Hornets as I really liked how Dell Curry and Muggsy Bogues played. I saw a lot of similarities between Dell and Jeff Hornacek and saw how great Stockton was so I 'adopted' the Jazz as my favorite West team. Unfortunately the Hornets went downhill ever since and the Jazz were really
moving, up until the 2 Finals appearances. So now I do have a lifelong mission of rooting for the Jazz until they win the big one (and beyond).
 
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I don't feel like giving my back story other than this pic.

I am curious though how many others have heard of this game.
 
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