Bud Stallworth

One collector is trying to find a single signature from every man who ever played for the Jazz — all 370 of them, from the 1974 New Orleans team to today. For many of them, this page is the only one on the internet. Here is Bud Stallworth: what he did on the floor, a few things most people never knew, and every card that carries his name. If you have a better example of his signature, or a story about it, the note at the foot of this page still stands.

At Kansas he scored 50 points in a 1972 win over Missouri, earning consensus second-team All-America honors and Big Eight Player of the Year. The Seattle SuperSonics took the Alabama-born shooting guard seventh overall that spring. Two years later the expansion New Orleans Jazz claimed him in the 1974 expansion draft, and he spent three seasons with the young franchise.

His career ended abruptly when a back injury from an automobile accident in 1977 forced him out of the game at 27. Stallworth went back to school and finished what he started, graduating from Kansas in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in social work.

HOW HE CAME & WENTSeattle left him unprotected for the 1974 expansion draft and the brand-new New Orleans Jazz took him, making him one of the original members of the franchise.

Full name

Isaac Stallworth

New Orleans Jazz tenure

1974–77

Position

Forward

Born

1950, Hartselle, Alabama

Height

6′5″ (196 cm)

Weight

190 lb (86 kg)

College

Kansas

Drafted

1972, 1st round (No. 7), Seattle