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Why do you love that Jazzy note?

Start looking basketball end 80 ( My god). I fall in love for Kukoc after seeing him winning the european cup with Trevise. Never seen such a talented young guys like this. Logically, i follow the Bulls during his time here. In the same time, i was attented games at my city Villeurbanne. In 1993. we hire an american guy, Delaney Rudd, who had been Stockton back-up for 1 or 2 years at Jazz. Delaney become an idol in France, MVP and best player for few seasons. He was so great. I was definitly intrigue to know how such a good player was only a back-up player in Utah and had a very short career in NBA. So i did look more closely at Stockton and understood why. Rudd was good, Stockton was the men !
Since that time, i had follow the Jazz on a regular basis.
 
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NBA in the 80s was awesome. Games were tough, not as many fans, etc.

Bobby Hansen once did a fan even and my brother and I were the only ones that showed up. We spent a lot time just shooting the **** with him. Stuff like that will never happen again.

The old Rocky Mountain Revue was also more intimate, and most of the teams showed up. Met a lot of players at restaurant bars after the events.

I fly in for games every year, but actually prefer watching on tv now. I still love the team, but miss old NBA ball.
 
Jazz Spazz said:
Do it. The telling part. Wait on the killing. Give me 20, maybe 30 years depending on health, the world and the state of Jazz championships.
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well in Australia there was precious little free coverage of the NBA in the 80s so the earliest i recall seeing was the Magic-Bird 84 finals. By the time i'd watched for a few years one game a week, i remember watching a Jazz Lakers game in prob 87 or 88 and seeing this massive muscly dude running the court like a racehorse dunking and hearing the "beat LA" chants and seeing as i like underdogs and thought their uniforms were cool i decided the Jazz would be the team for me and been following for the next 35 years .
 
JoelHodgeJr said:
I grew up in a small town in Vermont. We had about 5k total people. With no major state sports team my fandom was like a ronin samurai. So after I had a fling with Orlando magic, Penny hardaway was injured forever and Shaq was traded away. Nick Anderson got the yips worse then Markel Fulkz. My unfounded fan ship cracked in his foundation.

I needed a new team to love. I was a freshman in college. I loved basketball, and thought I knew about it to be smart. It was the year that John Stockton retired and Karl left for a chip in LA.

Everyone said the Jazz would be the worst team in the NBA. I saw special in Andre Kirilenko. Matt Harpring I knew would produce through effort, and I thought Arroyo was going to get a chip off his shoulder. I won a bet that that the jazz would still have a winning record. They were 42 and 40 and the only team with the over 500 record to make to not make the playoffs. I won $250 on that bet my freshman yea. Ever since then I've studied and become charmed by the Cinderella that hasn't worn the slipper.
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And it's malpractice that Sloan didn't win coach of the year that year.
 
Jazz Spazz said:
It’s good right. It doesn’t sound made up, right.
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One day I'll tell you one that really sounds made up, about a Romanian witch nailing a chicken to our apartment door when I was on my mission. Apparently she put a curse on us. Sometimes when I see the stupid **** my kids did/do, I'm pretty sure the curse stuck.
 
LogGrad98 said:
One day I'll tell you one that really sounds made up, about a Romanian witch nailing a chicken to our apartment door when I was on my mission. Apparently she put a curse on us. Sometimes when I see the stupid **** my kids did/do, I'm pretty sure the curse stuck.
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I’m confused, did you just tell me or am I waiting for the day you tell me? It sounds fun though. Do Romanians believe in Baba Yaga?
 
Jazz Spazz said:
I’m confused, did you just tell me or am I waiting for the day you tell me? It sounds fun though. Do Romanians believe in Baba Yaga?
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That was just the teaser. And yes they do apparently.
 
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