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Curtis Borchardt

A Stanford seven-footer who set the school's single-season blocks record and made first-team All-Pac-10 in 2002, Borchardt went 18th in that draft to Orlando and was dealt to Utah. His body never cooperated — he sat out his rookie year and managed 83 NBA games from 2003 to 2005 before a 13-player, five-team trade sent him to Boston.

Spain gave him the career the NBA would not: he led the ACB in rebounding twice and collected 13 Player of the Week honors. His wife, Susan King Borchardt, played at Stanford and for the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx.

HOW HE CAME & WENTOrlando took him 18th in 2002 and traded him to Utah for the 19th pick and a second-rounder. A third stress fracture of the same navicular bone cost him his rookie season. Utah sent him to Boston in the five-team, 13-player trade of August 2005.

Full name
Curtis Alan Borchardt
Utah Jazz tenure
2003–05
Position
Center
Born
1980, Sacramento
Height
7′0″ (213 cm)
Weight
240 lb (109 kg)
College
Stanford
Drafted
2002, 1st round (No. 18), Orlando
Signature in the archive 2002-03 SP Authentic SP Signatures #CU

No photograph of this signature is online yet.

With the Jazz

CURTIS BORCHARDT · 2003–05 · PER GAME
SEASONTEAMGMPGPPGRPGAPGSPGBPGFG%3P%FT%
2003–04UTA1616.13.63.40.90.30.9.393.000.778
2004–05UTA6712.83.03.30.70.10.5.430.732
JAZZ TOTAL2 SEASONS8313.53.13.30.80.20.6.421.000.742

Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗  ·  Wikipedia ↗

Did you know

CURTIS BORCHARDT · 8 NOTES
  • Missed his whole first NBA season to injury after being drafted.
  • He was part of the largest trade in NBA history, a 13-player deal involving five teams in August 2005.
  • He found his best basketball in Spain, twice leading the ACB league in rebounding.
  • That same junior year he was named both Stanford's most valuable player and its best defensive player.
  • The French club ASVEL ran an online guessing game in 2009, letting fans figure out his signing before announcing it.
  • A bone scan found the crack in his right navicular nine days after he signed with Utah in July 2002. It was the third stress fracture of that same bone.
  • His last NBA game came on April 12, 2005 against the Clippers. Boston never used him in the regular season, and by December he was playing in Granada.
  • As a Stanford junior he averaged 16.9 points and 11.4 rebounds a game.