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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 Jamaal Tinsley: 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.
Rucker Park streetball shaped him — the Brooklyn kid's playground nickname was Mel The Abuser — before junior college and Iowa State, where he was Big 12 Player of the Year and led the Cyclones to the 2000 Elite Eight. As a Pacers rookie in 2001 he posted a five-by-five, and Indiana was his home for seven seasons until the front office froze him out, shipping his belongings to Atlanta before the players' union filed a grievance on his behalf.
The Jazz gave him the closing chapter: signed in December 2011 after he went first overall in the D-League draft, he ran backup point in Utah into 2013, finishing an 11-season NBA career.
HOW HE CAME & WENTUtah signed him on December 12, 2011 to back up Devin Harris. The Jazz brought him back on October 26, 2013 after Trey Burke broke a finger — we need a point guard, said Ty Corbin — and waived him on November 12.
- Full name
- Jamaal Lee Tinsley
- Utah Jazz tenure
- 2011–14
- Position
- Guard
- Born
- 1978, Brooklyn, New York
- Height
- 6′3″ (191 cm)
- Weight
- 183 lb (83 kg)
- College
- Iowa State
- Drafted
- 2001, 1st round (No. 27), Vancouver
A card. A photo. A program. A page from an old autograph book. Anything he put his name on.
You do not need to know what it is. Take a photo with your phone and send it to me. I will tell you what you have, for free, whether or not anything comes of it. I pay the postage both ways. I answer every message myself, usually the same day.
With the Jazz
JAMAAL TINSLEY · 2011–14 · PER GAME| SEASON | TEAM | G | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | UTA | 37 | 13.7 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | .404 | .270 | .765 |
| 2012–13 | UTA | 66 | 18.5 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 4.4 | 1.0 | 0.2 | .368 | .307 | .692 |
| 2013–14 | UTA | 8 | 13.8 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | .200 | .067 | — |
| JAZZ TOTAL | 3 SEASONS | 111 | 16.6 | 3.4 | 1.5 | 3.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | .372 | .279 | .721 |
Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗ · Wikipedia ↗
Did you know
JAMAAL TINSLEY · 8 NOTES- Was known for some of the most inventive passing of the early 2000s.
- In just his 11th NBA game he posted a rare five-by-five, the youngest to do it until Andrei Kirilenko in 2003.
- He was traded twice on draft night in 2001, going from the Grizzlies to Atlanta to Indiana before ever wearing a jersey.
- His path to Division I ran through Mt. San Jacinto junior college in California before Iowa State.
- He averaged 8.1 assists as a rookie and started all sixteen playoff games in Indiana's 2004 run to the conference finals.
- His five steals in a 2005 playoff win over Boston tied for the most by anyone in that entire postseason.
- 'I was just waiting on the call. I just told my agent, If Utah gives me a call, I want to go back,' he said on returning in October 2013.
- His last NBA game came on November 11, 2013, a loss to Denver, the night before the Jazz waived him.