Eddie Hughes

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 Eddie Hughes: 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.

Five seasons in the CBA came before Eddie Hughes ever set foot on an NBA floor. The 5-foot-10 point guard from Greenville, Mississippi played his college ball at Colorado State, went in the seventh round of the 1982 draft to San Diego, and kept grinding in the minors — making the CBA All-Defensive First Team in 1984 — until the Jazz finally gave him his NBA debut in March 1988.

His Utah stay lasted 11 games, followed by 86 more with Denver through 1990. For a guard his size, in that era, simply reaching the league at all was the achievement.

HOW HE CAME & WENTUtah signed and waived him four separate times between 1986 and 1988 in its long search for a Stockton backup. The last of them came on December 27, 1988.

Utah Jazz tenure

1987–88

Position

Guard

Born

1960, Greenville, Mississippi

Height

5′10″ (178 cm)

Weight

165 lb (75 kg)

College

Colorado State

Drafted

1982, 7th round (No. 140), San Diego

Why this player is hard to find

Eleven games for the Jazz. Only unsigned promotional cards from his Denver years are known to exist.