Danny Manning

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 Danny Manning: what he did on the floor, a few things most people never knew, and every card that carries his name. If you own something he signed — or you know who might — there is a note at the foot of this page.

College basketball remembers 'Danny and the Miracles' — his 31-point, 18-rebound masterpiece won Kansas the 1988 title, and his 2,951 points still lead the program. The number one pick that June, Manning came back from reconstructive surgery on both knees, made two All-Star teams, and won the 1997–98 Sixth Man Award. In Utah in 2000–01 he gave the Stockton-and-Malone Jazz bench scoring, averaging 9.8 points in the playoff series with Dallas.

The son of longtime pro Ed Manning, he went straight onto the Kansas staff — winning the 2008 national championship as a Kansas assistant, twenty years after his title as a player — and now serves as an assistant coach at Colorado.

HOW HE CAME & WENTUtah recruited him hard in August 2000 and he took the $1.2 million cap exception over $2.5 million offers elsewhere, wanting a title shot beside Stockton and Malone. He played all 82 games off the bench, then left for Dallas in 2001.

Full name

Daniel Ricardo Manning

Utah Jazz tenure

2000–01

Position

Forward

Born

1966, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Height

6′10″ (208 cm)

Weight

231 lb (105 kg)

College

Kansas

Drafted

1988, 1st round (No. 1), Los Angeles Clippers