The ledger
The Stockton–Malone era (1984–2003)1993–94 Utah Jazz
The 20th season in franchise history brought two familiar faces home and one enormous trade. In August the Jazz signed free-agent forward Tom Chambers, a four-time All-Star and former University of Utah star who had wanted to sign in Salt Lake City five years earlier before landing in Phoenix . A draft-day deal the month before had brought seven-footer Felton Spencer over from Minnesota for Mike Brown .
21 in, 0 out. Every move the record shows for this season, with the reason where a source gives one. Where no reason is documented, the entry says nothing rather than guess.
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21 ARRIVED1993 NBA draft first round pick (#18 overall)
- Utah took him 18th overall in 1993. Bipolar disorder ended the season and the career — in January 1994 police found him at a highway rest area west of Salt Lake City, smashing car windows. He never played in the NBA again.
- Was Utah's first-round pick in 1993 at 7 ft 2.
1993 NBA draft second round pick (#45 overall)
- Utah took the swingman 45th overall in 1993 and he stayed nine seasons and two Finals runs. The Jazz made no offer after 2001-02 — he said they never offered him anything — and he signed with Washington that September.
- Was the defender on Michael Jordan's shot in Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals.
- Background: Drafted by the Utah Jazz 45th overall (2nd round) in the 1993 draft out of Long Beach State. Nine seasons in Utah, 96 playoff games, two Finals (1997, 1998). source
trade with Timberwolves
- Minnesota traded him to Utah for Mike Brown in 1993 and he took the pivot from the retiring Mark Eaton, until a ruptured Achilles 34 games into 1994-95. Utah dealt him to Orlando in August 1996 for a first-round pick, keeping Greg Ostertag at centre.
- Was the sixth overall pick in 1990 out of Louisville.
- Background: First season with the Jazz (1993-94): 8.6 points and 8.3 rebounds on 50.5% shooting — a complement to Stockton and Malone. source
- ARRIVAL: after the 1992-93 season Minnesota trades Spencer to Utah for Mike Brown (power forward/center). The deal is dated June 30, 1993. Spencer is the successor to Mark Eaton, who is retiring. source
- the club gave up: Mike Brown
signed to a 3-year contract
- ARRIVAL: after the 1992-93 season Minnesota trades Spencer to Utah for Mike Brown (power forward/center). The deal is dated June 30, 1993. Spencer is the successor to Mark Eaton, who is retiring. source
signed to a multi-year contract
signed second round pick
signed
signed
Jaren Jackson
signed
Justus Thigpen never played a minute for the club
signed
signed unrestricted free agent to a 1-year contract
- Phoenix declined his option right after the Finals, and he signed a two-year deal with Utah — a homecoming for the Ogden native and former Ute.
- Was the NBA's first unrestricted free agent to sign elsewhere, moving to Phoenix in 1988.
re-signed to a 1-year contract
signed free agent to a 1-year non-guaranteed contract
- Utah signed him on November 13, 1993 to cover for the injured David Benoit, then decided it needed a big man instead and waived him on November 26 — a Jazz career of under two weeks.
- Once scored 60 points in a college game for Ohio University.
signed free agent to a 1-year contract
- Utah signed him on November 26, 1993, the same day it waived Dave Jamerson — the club had decided it needed a big man to cover for the injured David Benoit.
- Went undrafted and still played fifteen NBA seasons.
signed free agent to a 10-day contract
- Utah's own second-round pick in 1991, 47th overall, reached the floor in 1993-94 and left the league having never missed a shot in it — a career field goal percentage of 1.000.
- Ranks among Creighton's all-time leading scorers.
signed free agent to a 10-day contract
- The Jazz signed him to a 10-day contract on February 21, 1994 and later waived him.
- Was drafted by Boston in the 1992 second round before landing in Utah.
re-signed
trade with 76ers
- Philadelphia traded him to Utah for Jeff Malone on February 24, 1994, putting him back at his natural position beside John Stockton. He retired in 2000 at 37 — an arthritic left knee with no meniscus left, and a wish to be home with his children. The Jazz hung his number in the rafters.
- His pre-free-throw ritual — brushing his hand down his cheek — was a signal to his children watching at home.
- Background: An arthritic left knee with no lateral meniscus left — he cannot straighten the leg all the way, a joint replacement is likely. source
- He came to Utah midway through 1993-94 in the trade that brought Jeff Hornacek from Philadelphia, and it was the end of his NBA road.
- Was among Iona's most prolific scorers before Indiana drafted him in 1991.
- the club gave up: Jeff Malone, 1994 first round pick (#20-B.J. Tyler)
signed free agent to a 10-day contract
re-signed to a second 10-day contract
re-signed for the remainder of the season