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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 Simone Fontecchio: 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.
A Virtus Bologna product who turned pro at 17, Fontecchio worked his way through Milan, Alba Berlin, and Baskonia before the Jazz signed him to a two-year deal in July 2022 — a 26-year-old NBA rookie. He gave Utah a game-winning dunk against Golden State that December and twice scored a career-high 24 points before a February 2024 trade to Detroit.
For Italy he has been a mainstay: leading scorer in three games at the Tokyo Olympics, All-Second Team at the 2023 World Cup, and author of a 39-point Italian record night at EuroBasket 2025. He now plays for the Miami Heat.
HOW HE CAME & WENTFresh off trading Rudy Gobert, the rebuilding Jazz made him their first free-agent signing of the 2022 offseason, and traded him to Detroit at the 2024 deadline.
- Utah Jazz tenure
- 2022–24
- Position
- Forward
- Born
- 1995, Pescara, Italy
- Height
- 6′8″ (203 cm)
- Weight
- 209 lb (95 kg)
- Drafted
- undrafted
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
SIMONE FONTECCHIO · 2022–24 · PER GAME| SEASON | TEAM | G | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022–23 | UTA | 52 | 14.7 | 6.3 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | .369 | .330 | .795 |
| 2023–24 | UTA | 50 | 23.2 | 8.9 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | .450 | .391 | .800 |
| JAZZ TOTAL | 2 SEASONS | 102 | 18.9 | 7.6 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | .412 | .363 | .798 |
Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗ · Wikipedia ↗
Did you know
SIMONE FONTECCHIO · 4 NOTES- Signed a five-year contract with Virtus Bologna at 17 — so young that his parents had to be present at the signing.
- His 18 points beside Bam Adebayo's 83 in March 2026 made them the second-highest scoring duo in a single NBA game, behind only Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point night.
- His mother played for the Italian national team and won two European club titles with Vicenza, and his father was an Olympic hurdler.
- Left Pescara for Bologna at fourteen, living in shared housing with the other boys in the Virtus youth program.