Jerry Eaves

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 Jerry Eaves: 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.

Louisville born and bred — Ballard High School, then the University of Louisville — Eaves reached the NBA for parts of four seasons in the early 1980s, spending the first two with the Jazz before stops in Atlanta and Sacramento.

He never really left home or the game. After a head coaching run at North Carolina A&T, he became head men's basketball coach and athletic director at Simmons College of Kentucky, back in Louisville. In 2020, television audiences watched him race across the world with his son Frank on The Amazing Race 32 — they finished ninth, the third team eliminated.

HOW HE CAME & WENTUtah drafted him 55th overall in 1982 and he debuted that October, staying two seasons before moving on to Atlanta.

Full name

Jerry Lee Eaves

Utah Jazz tenure

1982–84

Position

Guard

Born

1959, Louisville, Kentucky

Height

6′4″ (193 cm)

Weight

181 lb (82 kg)

College

Louisville

Drafted

1982, 3rd round (No. 55), Utah