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Share Which Jazz players you have met and how/where.

Archie Moses said:
Now that I think about it, I've played ball with Ronnie Price a few times at UVU a long *** time ago. He was a quiet dude, but deadly.
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I guess I forgot to include him. I got back from my mission in February of ‘06 and then in May moved down to Village on the Parkway across the freeway from then UVSC. He was dating his now wife and she lived in the apartment across the hall. He’d always park his car in between two spaces. Anyway, a year ago we were flying home from Kona and he was there. I recognized his wife and my wife actually initiated conversation with him.
 
Archie Moses said:
Now that I think about it, I've played ball with Ronnie Price a few times at UVU a long *** time ago. He was a quiet dude, but deadly.
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I played basketball with price too. We had a work basketball tournament and one of my co workers was related to him so he showed up too.
I was a pretty good basketball player at the time. He made me look incredibly stupid

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The last time the jazz had training camp in St. George (2004) I hurried to the hotel after the open to the public practice one night. I was one of about 10 people who did the same most of us were kids and teens and we gave the players high fives as they got off the bus except for a few. Boozer and Arroyo stand out as a couple that had that F off look and didn't give us a high five or anything. AK actually stopped and talked with us for a minute and even signed some things, super cool.

By far my favorite is being one of like 6 kids that got a private lesson with Antoine Carr and a couple games of speed in the summer of 2000. Carr did a basketball camp in St George in the summer of 98,99 and 00, fun times.
 
I know the question is about Jazz players, but I met Patrick Ewing once. I think it was either in 1995 or 1996. I attended college classes at Universidade de São Paulo at night, but during the afternoons I usually went to a health club nearby that was really famous at the time and was attended by many celebrities. So, one afternoon, I took a break from lifting weights and went to the WC and then I saw -- from the back -- a guy riding a stationary bike. My thoughts were: "What a tall black dude!" On my way back, I saw his face and: "Oh... that's Patrick Ewing!" Later, I was between sets in a seated pull down machine when I was approached by Ewing's translator: "Are you finished?", he asked in Portuguese. "I have one set left", I said lifting my index finger to Ewing, "I'll finish it in a minute". Then, I did my set with the maximum load of the machine. I am 5'11. At that time, I was 19 or 20 and probably looked slightly younger. Also, I weighted about 200 pounds, with 8 to 10 percent of body fat, so I was really in great shape. Ewing probably thought that someone so young and small could not pull down the maximum load. Thus, when I finished my set, I turned to him and saw that he was quite surprised. Then, I said to the translator: "I'm finished. He can used it now", and gave Ewing a smile. As I was leaving, I saw him actually decreasing the load of the machine and, I must confess, that put a big smile on my face. Later, I discovered that Ewing was in Brazil to sell shoes and was meeting Oscar Schmidt to play pick-up ball in front of the cameras.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
How the heck does a clip on a dog’s leash become unclipped? That would’ve been literally impossible with the leashes we had for our dogs, which were just regular old leashes. And you couldn’t yell the dog’s name so it stopped running?

Sounds like amateur hour.
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He meant to say that the paperclip holding his dog to the piece of used Christmas ribbon he was using as a leash somehow came unbent.
 
I ran into Antoine Carr twice in the same week. The first time was at a hot dog restaurant he had opened up in Sugarhouse. The second time was at a gas station kitty corner from Westminster College. He was in line in front of me. I was stunned when he paid for the pack of gum I was buying. I should have bought a lot more that day.

Met John Stockton at Book Expo America in NYC. Another person at the event introduced us because he knew we both had Utah connections. Stockton looked pissed, but I think he was just overwhelmed by the attention he was getting at the event. I'd always heard that he hated being a celebrity but it was only after meeting him there that I really understood how much he disliked it. I met Dr. Ruth and Ken Jennings on that same day. Neither of them looked pissed at all. Dr. Ruth was hysterical, super nice, and mind-bendingly tiny.

Had lunch with Bill Walton in Breckenridge during a bicycle race. I was with a friend who had never heard of Walton before that day. Afterward my friend asked me if Walton was legitimately insane.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
He meant to say that the paperclip holding his dog to the piece of used Christmas ribbon he was using as a leash somehow came unbent.
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You caught me

Greg Foster used to always be at the gym i went to over off van winkle. He was always standing around chatting it up, oddly i never saw him lift one weight.
Also said hi to Paul Milsap and his brother at circuit city, they were buying a camera and i looked over and they looked like they didnt want to be bothered i just awkwardly said, was up?
 
Ricky Rubio standing outside of Sephora in City Creek standing on a bench talking loudly in spanish to someone. Dressed like a homless man. One thing I noticed is he is very very tall, for normal human standards, and had really long arms. And looked like a bum.

Karl Malone sitting outside of some factory waiting for his semi to get loaded up with something. This is when I was like 8 or 9 so he was still in his prime, just liked to drive trucks for some god forsaken reason I guess. He wasn't super nice, but wasn't unpleasant either.
 
Back when FishTech opened in Millcreek, I think Karl Malone invested in it. They had a signing and he was there. My little brother had just had surgery on both his feet, so they were both in casts and he was in a wheelchair. We were standing in line to get in, but someone came out and let us skip the line (it was summer so it was super hot). Malone signed my brother's casts, but he was on the phone the whole time.
 
I bumped into Karl Malone's mother at a Jazz game once and said "Mrs Malone we are proud of your son." She replied "Thank you, dear."

In Park City once, I was wearing a "US Army Veteran" baseball cap (yes, I am indeed a veteran of the US Army) and during a crowded street event my wife and I somehow started talking to the couple next to us and the guy looked at my cap and thanked me for my service. The man was Thurl Bailey. Now this one happened so fast that I have to put an asterisk next to it, (e.g., was that really Thurl Bailey?) but hey, that's life.
 
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