Wanted players
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Some of these men played hundreds of games. Others played three, decades ago, and no trading card of them was ever printed — for those, a signed index card or a program would be the first known example anywhere. If you own something signed, or you knew the player or their family, I'd genuinely like to hear from you. I cover postage worldwide and answer every message.
Rick Adelman
Before the Hall of Fame coaching career there was a guard from Loyola of Los Angeles — a seventh-round pick in 1968 who became an original Portland Trail Blazer and closed out his playing days in 1975 after stops with Chicago, the New Orleans Jazz, and Kansas City-Omaha.
Ochai Agbaji
A soccer-playing kid from Kansas City who grew nine inches in high school, Agbaji left Kansas a legend of the program: consensus first-team All-American, Big 12 Player of the Year, and Most Outstanding Player of the 2022 Final Four as the Jayhawks won it all. Cleveland drafted him 14th, then shipped him to Utah in the Donovan Mitchell trade before he ever played a game for the Cavaliers.
Blake Ahearn
Four games for Utah in 2011-12 during a career spent mostly in the D-League and Europe. Nothing signed has surfaced.
Nickeil Alexander-Walker
At Hamilton Heights Christian Academy, Alexander-Walker shared a room at his coach's house with his cousin Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. The Toronto guard took Virginia Tech to a Sweet 16, went 17th in the 2019 draft, and landed in Utah at the 2022 deadline before being dealt a year later in the Mike Conley trade. In 2026, with Atlanta, he became the first Canadian to win Most Improved Player, jumping from 9.4 to 20.8 points a game.
Grayson Allen
Duke made him famous twice over. As a freshman in 2015 Allen scored 16 points in the national championship win, and by his sophomore year he was a 21-point scorer — though a string of tripping incidents brought a suspension, a stripped captaincy and a villain's reputation he worked to shed as a restored senior captain. Utah drafted him 21st in 2018.
Morris Almond
Scoring came easily by his senior year at Rice — 26.4 points a game, third in the nation, Conference USA Player of the Year — and the Jazz called his name 25th overall in 2007. In Utah he became a D-League phenomenon with the Utah Flash, leading the league at 25.6 points and tying, then breaking, the single-game record with 51- and 53-point nights. The NBA minutes never quite followed: nine games as a rookie, then a career-high 12 points at Sacramento in his second season.
John Amaechi
Boston-born but raised by his mother in Stockport, England, Amaechi did not play basketball until age 17 — and still made the NBA, becoming the first undrafted player to start his first game, for Cleveland in 1995. He famously turned down a $17 million Lakers offer to stay in Orlando at $600,000 a year, then played for the Jazz from 2001 to 2003.
Lou Amundson
Ten-day contracts were Amundson's doorway: after winning D-League Rookie of the Year with the Colorado 14ers, he signed two of them with the Jazz in February 2007 — his first NBA employment. The undrafted UNLV forward stretched that toehold into ten NBA seasons, becoming just the twelfth player ever to appear for at least ten franchises.
J.J. Anderson
Bradley University retired his No. 11, an honor granted to only seven Braves, before the 76ers drafted Anderson 36th overall in 1982. The 6-foot-8 forward played 13 games for Philadelphia, then spent the rest of his three NBA seasons, from December 1982 to 1985, with the Utah Jazz.
Kyle Anderson
They call him Slow Mo, but Anderson's game was built early — his coach father raised him as a point guard no matter how tall he grew. He went 65-0 across two seasons at St. Anthony under Bob Hurley, posted UCLA's first triple-double since 1995, and was drafted 30th by San Antonio in 2014. His Utah season came in 2025-26, deep into a career spanning the Spurs, Grizzlies, Timberwolves, Warriors and Heat.
Shandon Anderson
Out of Atlanta's Alonzo A. Crim High School and the University of Georgia, Anderson lasted until the 54th pick of the 1996 draft, where the Jazz found a ready-made wing. He spent his first three NBA seasons in Utah, then played for Houston, New York, and Miami across a ten-year career, peaking at 12.3 points per game with the Rockets in 1999-2000.
Rafael Araújo
BYU fans knew him as a bruising 6-foot-11 second-team All-American, Mountain West co-Player of the Year in 2004, and Toronto made the Brazilian the eighth pick that June — one spot ahead of Andre Iguodala. The fit never worked, and in June 2006 the Raptors traded him to the Jazz for Kris Humphries and Robert Whaley. Araujo dropped twenty pounds and worked, but behind Boozer, Kirilenko, and Okur he managed 2.6 points in 28 games, his last NBA appearance coming in the 2007 Western Conference Finals.
Carlos Arroyo
At Florida International he set the career assists record and had his number 30 retired. Undrafted, Arroyo reached Utah in 2002 as third point guard behind John Stockton and Mark Jackson — then, when both departed, ran the offense himself, keying a surprise 42–40 season in 2003–04 with career highs of 12.6 points and 5.0 assists. That same summer he steered Puerto Rico past the United States at the Athens Olympics.
Isaac Austin
The Jazz found Ike Austin at Arizona State and drafted the 6-foot-10 center 48th in 1991, but two points a game as a rookie hinted at little. The turnaround came in Turkey — 22.3 points and 13.9 rebounds a night for Tuborg Izmir — and he returned to win the NBA's Most Improved Player award with Miami in 1997. His best season followed: 13.5 points and 7.1 rebounds split between the Heat and Clippers.
Anthony Avent
From Newark's Malcolm X Shabazz High to Seton Hall, Avent played in the 1989 NCAA championship game before Atlanta drafted him 15th overall in 1991. When contract talks with Milwaukee stalled, he took a year in Italy with Phonola Caserta, then returned on a four-year Bucks deal. Six NBA seasons followed — Milwaukee, Orlando, Vancouver, the Jazz in 1998–99, and the Clippers.
Udoka Azubuike
Born in Lagos, the youngest of five children of a police officer and a schoolteacher, Azubuike lost his father to an undiagnosed illness at ten and reached America through a Basketball Without Borders scholarship. At Kansas he set the NCAA career record by making 74.9 percent of his shots and swept Big 12 Player of the Year and national defensive honors in 2020. The Jazz drafted him 27th that fall, and he spent three injury-marked seasons in Utah, including foot surgery in 2022.
Ace Bailey
Seventy-two games for Utah, one of the most talked-about picks of the 2025 draft. Cards are plentiful but command very strong prices.
Gus Bailey
UTEP prepared Bailey for a second-round call in the 1974 NBA draft, 23rd overall to the Houston Rockets, with the ABA's San Diego Conquistadors drafting him the same year. He spent his first seasons in Houston, moved on to the New Orleans Jazz in the late 1970s, and finished with the Washington Bullets in 1979-80, playing 147 NBA games in all.
Thurl Bailey
Bailey led Jim Valvano's NC State team in scoring and rebounding during the miracle run to the 1983 NCAA championship, and the Jazz took him seventh in that summer's draft — for his character as much as his game, management said. Once Karl Malone arrived, Bailey became a premier reserve, scoring 19.6 a game in 1987-88 and twice finishing second in Sixth Man of the Year voting. He missed only four eligible games in his first Jazz stint and returned for a farewell season in 1998-99.
Mo Bamba
Born in Harlem to parents who emigrated from the Ivory Coast, Bamba turned a record 7-foot-10 wingspan into a ticket from Westtown School to Texas, where his shot-blocking made him the sixth pick of the 2018 draft. Five seasons in Orlando brought a career-high 32 points on seven three-pointers in 2022, followed by a trade to the Lakers and one-year stops in Philadelphia and with the Clippers, before he landed with the Jazz in 2025.
Darius Bazley
Few draft stories were stranger than Darius Bazley's. The McDonald's All-American from Ohio signed with Syracuse, then skipped college for a $1 million internship with New Balance before Utah drafted him 23rd overall in 2019 — and traded him immediately. Four seasons in Oklahoma City followed, with a career-high 29 points in 2022, then stops in Phoenix and Philadelphia.
Malik Beasley
One season at Florida State, 15.6 points a game and ACC all-freshman honors, made Beasley the 19th pick of the 2016 draft. His shooting peaked in Minnesota, where he set a franchise record with 240 threes in 2021-22 and once scored 33 points entirely on three-pointers. His last basketball came in Puerto Rico with the Cangrejeros de Santurce.
Ron Behagen
A 6-foot-9 New Yorker out of DeWitt Clinton High, Behagen starred at Minnesota alongside future baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield — and was suspended for the rest of the 1971-72 season for his part in the notorious brawl against Ohio State. Kansas City still made him a first-round pick in 1973, and he earned All-Rookie honors the next spring. Across seven NBA seasons, including a New Orleans Jazz stop, he averaged 10.3 points and 7.0 rebounds.
Raja Bell
Undrafted out of Florida International in 1999, Bell fought up from the CBA — a champion with Yakima in 2000 — to a starring Game 7 in the 2001 Eastern Conference Finals for Philadelphia. His first Jazz stint, 2003 to 2005, brought his first double-figure scoring seasons, 11.2 and then 12.3 points a game. In Phoenix he became a two-time All-Defensive Team pick who led the league with 205 threes in 2006-07 and famously clotheslined Kobe Bryant in the 2006 playoffs, before returning to Utah late in his career.
Jerrelle Benimon
Two NBA games for the Jazz in 2014-15. No trading card of him exists in any product.
Mel Bennett
Pittsburgh raised him, from Peabody High School to the University of Pittsburgh, and the pro game took him from the ABA's Virginia Squires in 1975-76 to the Indiana Pacers, the Utah Jazz in 1980-81, and finally the Cleveland Cavaliers, where his playing days ended in 1982.
David Benoit
Undrafted out of Alabama, he took the long road — a season in Spain — before the Jazz signed him in 1991, and the smooth-jumping forward spent five seasons at small forward alongside Stockton and Malone, even placing fourth in the 1993 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. After stops in New Jersey, Orlando and two years with Maccabi Tel Aviv, he returned to Utah in 2000 to close his NBA book where it opened.
Kent Benson
Indiana royalty: Mr. Basketball in 1973, then the anchor of Bob Knight's 1976 Hoosiers, the most recent Division I team to finish a perfect season, and the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player. Milwaukee made him the No. 1 overall pick in 1977, and two minutes into his first game an elbow to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar drew a punch that broke Kareem's hand and left Benson concussed. He came to Utah with Kelly Tripucka in the 1986 trade that sent Adrian Dantley to Detroit.
Henry Bibby
Starting point guard on three straight UCLA national champions from 1970 to 1972 under John Wooden, Bibby was one of only four players ever to start on three NCAA title teams. The Knicks drafted him in the fourth round and he won an NBA ring as a rookie in 1973. His season and a half with the New Orleans Jazz came mid-career, before two more Finals trips with Philadelphia in 1977 and 1980.
Andris Biedrins
Riga produced him — a professional with BK Skonto at 16, then the 11th pick of the 2004 draft and the youngest player in the NBA as a Golden State rookie. Under Don Nelson he broke through, leading the league in field-goal percentage in 2007–08, signing a 54-million-dollar contract that summer, and peaking at 11.9 points and 11.2 rebounds in 2008–09.
John Block
Before the Jazz existed, Block was already a veteran — a USC product who led the expansion San Diego Rockets in scoring at 20.2 points a game in 1967-68 and made the 1973 All-Star Game. His most treasured night came off the Bucks' bench in January 1972, when his 17 points and 10 rebounds helped end the Lakers' 33-game winning streak.
Leandro Bolmaro
Signed by Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca at 16 out of little Las Varillas, Argentina, Bolmaro developed at FC Barcelona before the Knicks drafted him 23rd in 2020 and his rights moved to Minnesota. He came to Utah in the July 2022 Rudy Gobert blockbuster, played part of a season, and reached a buyout agreement in February 2023.
Joel Bolomboy
Born in Ukraine to a Congolese father and a Russian mother, Bolomboy was raised in Fort Worth from before age three and became the all-time leading rebounder in Weber State and Big Sky Conference history, the league's 2016 Player of the Year. The Jazz drafted him 52nd that June, and he spent his rookie season between Utah and the Salt Lake City Stars, where he averaged 16.5 points and 13.3 rebounds.
Walter Bond
Bond went from undrafted out of Minnesota to scoring 25 points in just his second NBA game for the 1992-93 Mavericks. He joined the Jazz for the 1993-94 season and returned on two 10-day contracts in January 1995, part of a three-season NBA run of 153 regular-season games, and later starred in the CBA and in Germany, averaging 16.4 points for Leverkusen.
Trevor Booker
Twenty bowls of cereal a week fed a country-strong kid from rural Whitmire, South Carolina, who became the state's Gatorade Player of the Year and a first-team All-ACC senior at Clemson. Drafted 23rd in 2010 and dealt to Washington on draft night, Booker joined Utah on a two-year, $10 million contract in 2014 and had his career night as a Jazzman — 36 points against Portland in April 2015.
Ron Boone
Professional basketball's iron man played 1,041 consecutive games across the ABA and NBA — and claimed he never missed one from fourth grade to retirement. Just 5-foot-7 when he left Omaha Technical High, Boone grew at an Iowa junior college, starred at Idaho State, and chose the ABA's Dallas Chaparrals in 1968. His crowning run came with the Utah Stars, helping win the 1971 ABA championship alongside Zelmo Beaty and Willie Wise.
Carlos Boozer
Alaska shaped him: the family moved to Juneau from Washington, D.C., after a seven-year-old friend died in his arms following a neighborhood shooting. Boozer won the 2001 NCAA title at Duke, slid to 35th in the 2002 draft, and in 2004 signed a six-year, $70 million deal with Utah amid a bitter falling-out with Cleveland. Twice an All-Star, he carried the 2007 Jazz to the Western Conference finals, averaging 23.5 points and 12.2 rebounds that postseason.
Curtis Borchardt
A Stanford seven-footer who set the school's single-season blocks record and made first-team All-Pac-10 in 2002, Borchardt went 18th in that draft to Orlando and was dealt to Utah. His body never cooperated — he sat out his rookie year and managed 83 NBA games from 2003 to 2005 before a 13-player, five-team trade sent him to Boston.
Tom Boswell
A 6-foot-9 forward from the University of South Carolina, Boswell broke in with the 1975-76 Boston Celtics and earned a championship ring as a rookie. He played six NBA seasons in all for the Celtics, Nuggets, and Jazz, averaging 7.7 points per game, with Jazz stints in 1979-80 and 1983-84.
Freddie Boyd
Oregon State sent Boyd to the pros as the fifth overall pick of the 1972 draft, taken by the Philadelphia 76ers. His NBA career ran from 1972 to 1978, closing with the New Orleans Jazz years of 1975 to 1978.
Ken Boyd
Six games for the inaugural New Orleans Jazz before being waived in November 1974. No trading card of him was ever printed — only a single photograph is known. He died in September 2025, closing the set of anything he signed.
Tony Bradley
A McDonald's All-American from Bartow, Florida, Bradley backed up the front line on North Carolina's 2017 NCAA championship team, then left after one season. The Lakers drafted him 28th and dealt him to Utah on draft night. In three Jazz years he was a project big man, spending long stretches with the Salt Lake City Stars before cracking the rotation with 58 appearances in 2019-20.
Jarrell Brantley
Raised in Columbia, he stayed in South Carolina for college and left the College of Charleston with 1,914 points, third in program history. Drafted 50th in 2019 and dealt to Utah, Brantley split two seasons between the Jazz and the Salt Lake City Stars on a two-way contract, then came back in 2023 for four more games on a 10-day deal.
Ronnie Brewer
His father Ron starred at Arkansas in the late 1970s, and Ronnie followed, averaging 18.4 points for the Razorbacks before Utah took him 14th in the 2006 draft. The shooting guard with the famously unorthodox release — the legacy of a childhood water slide injury — won the starting job in 2007–08 and ranked among the league leaders in steals.
Allan Bristow
Virginia Tech still keeps his numbers on the wall — the 1973 NIT championship, a school-record 52-point game, a 23.1-point career average, a retired jersey. Philadelphia drafted the forward they called Disco in the second round in 1973, and across ten NBA and ABA seasons he passed through the Sixers and Spurs before joining New Orleans as a free agent in 1979. A 1981 trade sent him to Dallas, where he retired in 1983.
Dee Brown
'The One-Man Fast Break,' the Chicago press dubbed him, and Dee Brown earned it at Illinois — a consensus First-Team All-American on the 37–2 squad that reached the 2005 NCAA final, Sporting News National Player of the Year that season, and a Sports Illustrated cover subject that March. The 2006 Bob Cousy Award followed, and Utah selected him in the second round of the 2006 draft.
Devin Brown
Salt Lake City is on his birth certificate, but San Antonio made him — the city's all-time leading high school scorer, then UTSA's career scoring leader with 1,922 points and the first Roadrunner to post a triple-double. Undrafted, Brown climbed through the USBL and the D-League, where he was 2003 MVP, and won the 2005 championship with the hometown Spurs.
John Brown
Missouri through and through — Dixon High School, then the Missouri Tigers, who retired his No. 50 in 2019. Brown made the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, though injury kept him out of the Games. Atlanta drafted him tenth overall in 1973 and he made the NBA All-Rookie Team the following spring.
Mike Brown
They called him 'The New Washington Monument' at George Washington University, and Jazz announcer Hot Rod Hundley later renamed him 'the Brown Bear.' A third-round Bulls pick in 1985, the 6'10" forward-center made his living as a low-post workhorse across eleven NBA seasons, and his five years in Utah from 1988 to 1993 made him a fan favorite. He retired with 3,130 points and 2,762 rebounds.
Raymond Brown
Sixteen games for the Jazz in 1989-90. A CBA card is in the archive unsigned and nothing else of him exists.
Tony Brown
Nine teams in seven NBA seasons — that was Brown's playing card after Arkansas and a fourth-round selection by New Jersey in 1982, with the 1990-91 Jazz among his stops. He earned CBA All-Defensive honors in 1983 and finished his playing days in Italy with Reggio Emilia.
Trey Burke
His father had him brushing his teeth left-handed at age nine to build ambidexterity, and it paid off: Burke swept nearly every 2013 National Player of the Year award at Michigan and carried the Wolverines to the NCAA title game. Minnesota drafted him ninth that June and traded him to Utah the same night. He finished third in Rookie of the Year voting and spent three seasons with the Jazz, the first season and a half as their starting point guard.
Alec Burks
Missouri's Gatorade Player of the Year out of Grandview High, Burks became Colorado's first Big 12 Freshman of the Year in 2010 and left school after two seasons. Utah took him 12th overall in 2011, and he gave the Jazz eight seasons — a career-high 34 points in 2014, a four-year, 42-million-dollar extension, and a string of cruel injuries to his shoulder, fibula and ankle.
Jared Butler
Reserve, Louisiana watched him make the varsity as an eighth-grader, and Baylor watched him become a consensus first-team All-American. Butler led the Bears to the 2021 national championship and was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player. Cleared by an NBA fitness-to-play panel that summer, he went 40th in the draft and landed with the Jazz, where he played his rookie season and scored a career-high 21 points against the Clippers in March 2022.
Marty Byrnes
Syracuse born and Syracuse schooled, the 6-foot-7 forward played four NBA seasons between 1978 and 1983 for five teams, among them the New Orleans Jazz in 1978-79, and averaged 5.7 points a game.
Mack Calvin
The ABA was Calvin's stage. Passed over until the 14th round of the 1969 NBA draft, the 6-foot USC guard signed instead with the Los Angeles Stars and reached the ABA Finals as a rookie. Five All-Star selections and 3,067 assists, second in league history, followed across seven ABA seasons. After the merger he played for five NBA clubs, including the Utah Jazz in 1979-80, and retired in 1981.
Antoine Carr
They called him Big Dawg. A Wichita State star who scored a school-record 47 points in his final college game, Carr won silver with the US team at the 1982 World Championship, went eighth to Detroit in 1983, and played 16 NBA seasons. In Utah from 1994 to 1998 he was Jerry Sloan's jovial sixth man beside Karl Malone, hitting clutch jumpers in Game 5 of the 1998 Finals.
DeMarre Carroll
Utah is where the "Junkyard Dog" saved his career. Traded by Memphis, which drafted him 27th in 2009, then waived by Houston and Denver, Carroll signed with the Jazz in February 2012 and turned relentless defense into a real NBA life — Atlanta came next, where he started for the Hawks team that went 17–0 in January 2015, followed by a four-year, $60 million contract in Toronto.
Bobby Cattage
Forty-nine games for the Jazz in 1981-82. Signed items appear perhaps once a year.
Tyler Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh split his college years between Wake Forest and George Washington, where he was MVP of the 2016 NIT championship run and averaged 18.3 points as a senior. He impressed enough on a two-way contract in Atlanta to earn a multi-year deal, then signed a two-way with the Jazz in August 2018, appearing in 11 NBA games alongside time with the Salt Lake City Stars.
Tom Chambers
Born in Ogden and a college star at Utah — the Utes retired his No. 42 — Chambers became the NBA's first unrestricted free agent when he left Seattle for Phoenix in 1988. A four-time All-Star, he took MVP honors at the 1987 All-Star Game with 34 points, and he later came home to sign with the Jazz, playing two seasons off the bench and in April 1995 reaching 20,000 career points.
Kennedy Chandler
A two-time Tennessee Mr. Basketball at Memphis-area Briarcrest Christian, Chandler was a McDonald's All-American and five-star point guard who spent one season at Tennessee, making second-team All-SEC before going 38th in the 2022 draft. His rookie deal with Memphis set a record for guaranteed money for an American-born second-round pick.
Calbert Cheaney
Nobody has scored more Big Ten points — 2,613, all at Indiana, where Cheaney swept the 1993 national player of the year awards under Bob Knight and reached the 1992 Final Four. Washington drafted him sixth in 1993, and he gave the NBA thirteen seasons in five uniforms, including the Jazz in 2002–03.
Zylan Cheatham
To stay eligible, Cheatham once retook his entire junior year of high school coursework simultaneously with his senior load — the kind of resolve that carried him from South Phoenix through San Diego State to Arizona State, where he led the Pac-12 in rebounding and recorded the second triple-double in school history. Undrafted in 2019, he debuted with New Orleans on a two-way contract.
Pete Chilcutt
A North Carolina Tar Heel taken in the first round by Sacramento in 1991, Chilcutt won a ring with the 1994–95 Houston Rockets. The Alabama-raised forward stretched a nine-year career across seven franchises. His final NBA season, 1999–2000, began with the Jazz and went on with the Clippers and Cavaliers.
Patrick Christopher
Four games in a Jazz uniform. Nothing signed and no card has ever surfaced.
Ian Clark
Belmont retired his No. 21 — he started every game of his college career and shared Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year honors in 2013. Undrafted, Clark scored 33 points to win MVP of the Las Vegas Summer League title game, and the Jazz signed him that July, his first NBA contract. Two seasons in Utah led eventually to Golden State, where he won a championship in 2017.
Keon Clark
Junior colleges and UNLV led to the 1998 lottery — Orlando took Clark 13th and dealt him to Denver. A gifted shot-blocker, he swatted a Raptors-record 12 in one game in 2001 and averaged 11.3 points in 2002. His Utah stay in 2003–04 lasted exactly two games before a trade to Phoenix, where he never suited up.
Walter Clayton
Final Four Most Outstanding Player in 2025, he led Florida to the national championship as a consensus first-team All-American — a two-sport talent from Lake Wales who had football offers from Florida and Notre Dame before choosing basketball at little Iona under Rick Pitino. Washington took him 18th in the 2025 draft and dealt him to Utah on draft night.
Isaiah Collier
The 2023 Naismith Prep Player of the Year and a No. 1-rated recruit, Collier spent one season at USC before Utah drafted him 29th in 2024. As a rookie he took over at point guard and broke John Stockton's franchise rookie assist record, and in February 2026 he handed out 22 assists in a game, the most by any Jazz player since Stockton in 1992.
John Collins
Collins became the first Wake Forest player since Tim Duncan to post 600 points and 300 rebounds in a season in 2016-17, earning ACC Most Improved Player honors. Atlanta drafted him 19th, and he spent six seasons as the Hawks' high-flying forward, making the All-Rookie Second Team and once grabbing 25 rebounds in a game, before Utah acquired him for 2023 through 2025. He now plays for Detroit.
Jeff Cook
West Covina, California raised him and Idaho State trained him, and the 6-foot-10 center turned that into eight NBA seasons between 1979 and 1988 with the Suns, Cavaliers, Spurs and Jazz.
Jack Cooley
Sixteen games for the Jazz before a career in Japan. Only unsigned cards are known.
Wayne Cooper
Sun Belt Player of the Year at the University of New Orleans, Cooper reached the NBA as a Golden State second-rounder in 1978 and arrived in Utah in September 1980, traded for Bernard King. His single Jazz season was one stop in a 14-year, 984-game career built on shot-blocking — he averaged 2.9 blocks for Denver in 1985-86, left that franchise as its all-time blocks leader, and reached two NBA Finals with Portland.
Tyrone Corbin
Corbin earned a computer science degree at DePaul before San Antonio drafted him in the 1985 second round, and he stretched that modest start into 16 NBA seasons and 1,065 games. Utah acquired him from Minnesota for Thurl Bailey early in 1991-92, and his steady two-way play helped the Jazz reach two Western Conference Finals in three seasons.
Bryce Cotton
Doctors once told his mother to plan a funeral — a rare form of epilepsy struck Cotton as a boy in Tucson, and his last seizure came on the final day of sixth grade. He climbed from there: a Providence scholarship offered three days before freshman orientation, two first-team All-Big East seasons, and brief stops with Utah, Phoenix and Memphis after going undrafted in 2014.
Marcus Cousin
Ten days in March 2011 put this traveling center in a Jazz uniform, called up from the Austin Toros of the D-League. Cousin bloomed late — a reserve at Seton Hall, he transferred to Houston and delivered 10.9 points, 8.4 rebounds and 2.1 blocks a game as a senior — but went undrafted in 2009.
John Crotty
Undrafted out of Virginia — where he was a two-year captain and held the career assists record until 2023 — Crotty willed himself into an 11-season NBA point guard, breaking in with the Jazz in 1992 and spending his first three years in Utah. He played 477 career games for seven teams, and long baskets were playfully called the Crotty Chop.
Corey Crowder
Fifty-one games for Utah and the father of Jae Crowder, who also played here. Only one card exists, an unsigned Italian-league draft issue.
Jae Crowder
An overweight teenage quarterback in Villa Rica, Georgia, Crowder called his father Corey — a former NBA player then competing in Europe — to help him get in shape. The rebuilt frame took the junior-college route, won a national JUCO title at Howard College in 2010, then earned Big East Player of the Year at Marquette in 2012. Drafted 34th, he became one of the league's most traded forwards: Dallas, Boston, Cleveland, then Utah in 2018.
Pat Cummings
Thirteen NBA seasons and four games for Utah in his last one, at 34. He died in 2012, but the long career means signed cards exist in quantity — this position should not stay open.
William Cunningham
Cunningham took the long way to the NBA — undrafted out of Temple, picked instead in the 1996 USBL draft, the 6-foot-11 center broke through in 1998 with the Jazz and ultimately appeared in 23 NBA games for four teams — the Jazz, 76ers, Raptors, and Nets — across 1998 and 1999.
Dell Curry
Long before his sons redefined shooting, Dell Curry honed his stroke in his coach's barn in rural Virginia. The Jazz drafted the Virginia Tech star 15th overall in 1986 but kept him just one season before trading him to Cleveland — and Charlotte grabbed him in the 1988 expansion draft. There he became the Hornets' beloved sixth man, winning the award in 1993–94 and retiring as the franchise's all-time leading scorer with 9,839 points. Charlotte retired his number 30 in 2026.
Brad Davis
Before he became a Dallas institution, Davis was a journeyman. The Maryland point guard went 15th overall to the Lakers in 1977, bounced to Indiana, and won a CBA title with Anchorage before the Utah Jazz signed him in February 1980 for the tail end of their first Salt Lake season. That December the expansion Mavericks called, and the fit lasted twelve seasons, a team-record 7.2 assists per game in 1982-83, and the franchise lead in assists, games, and minutes.
Ed Davis
Son of longtime NBA big man Terry Davis, Ed Davis won a national title at North Carolina in 2009, scoring 11 points off the bench in the championship game, then went 13th to Toronto in the 2010 draft. Across 12 NBA seasons he earned his keep on the glass for eight teams. Utah signed him in July 2019, but a fractured left fibula that November marred his lone Jazz season.
Darryl Dawkins
Straight from an Orlando high school to the 1975 draft, the first high schooler ever chosen in the first round of the NBA draft, Dawkins signed with Philadelphia determined to lift his family out of poverty. Stevie Wonder named him Chocolate Thunder, and the dunks earned it: two shattered backboards in 1979 forced the league to adopt breakaway rims. He reached three NBA Finals, had his best scoring years with the Nets, and finished with brief stops in Utah in 1987-88 and Detroit.
Paul Dawkins
As a boy in Saginaw, Michigan, Dawkins bent coat hangers into a rim, hung it in the family garage, and taught himself a sweet left-handed touch. At Northern Illinois he became the school's all-time scorer with 1,749 points and the 1979 Mid-American Conference Player of the Year. Drafted by the Utah Jazz in the tenth round, he played 57 NBA games and once scored 30 points in a single half against Portland, hitting 13 of 15 shots.
Greg Deane
Seven NBA games, all in a Jazz uniform. Nothing signed by him has ever surfaced and no card was produced. A genuine blank in the franchise record.
Boris Diaw
Few players have been as versatile — a Pau-Orthez product drafted 21st by Atlanta in 2003 who bloomed in Phoenix, winning the 2006 Most Improved Player award while filling every position from point guard to center. He hit a 34-point game-winner in the 2006 Western finals and earned a ring as a starter for San Antonio's 2014 champions, leading that Finals series in assists. Utah in 2016–17 was his final NBA season.
James Donaldson
Born in Heacham, England to an Air Force family, the 7-foot-2 center set the blocked-shot records at Washington State and played 14 NBA seasons. He led the league in field goal percentage in 1984-85, made the 1988 All-Star team with Dallas, and holds a curious record: 957 games without a single three-point attempt. His 49 games with the Jazz in the early 1990s came as injuries wound the career down, though he played on in Greece and Spain until age 41.
John Drew
Out of tiny Vredenburgh, Alabama came one of the purest scorers of his era. Drew averaged a state-record 41 points a game in high school, starred at Gardner-Webb, and scored 32 in his 1974 NBA debut for Atlanta. Twice an All-Star, he finished with 15,291 points at 20.7 per game.
Kris Dunn
Dunn was a force at Providence, sweeping Big East Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in 2015 after two shoulder surgeries nearly derailed his college career. Minnesota drafted him fifth overall in 2016, and a year later he was a centerpiece of the Jimmy Butler blockbuster that sent him to Chicago. His Utah stop came in 2022-23 and 2023-24.
John Duren
Out of Washington's Dunbar High School, Duren stayed close to home for college, running the point at Georgetown alongside his high school teammate Craig Shelton from 1976 to 1980. He won gold with the United States at the 1979 Pan American Games and was named Big East Player of the Year as a senior. The Jazz made him the 19th overall pick in the 1980 draft, and he spent his first two professional seasons in Utah.
Jerry Eaves
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.
Howard Eisley
Cut loose by Minnesota and San Antonio and playing CBA ball in Rockford, the Detroit-born guard got his break when the Jazz needed a backup for John Stockton in late 1995. Jerry Sloan called him a focused young man, and the quiet point guard held the job for five seasons and two Finals trips. In Game 6 of the 1998 Finals, referee Dick Bavetta mistakenly disallowed his first-half three-pointer in a game the Jazz lost by one. He returned for a final Utah season in 2004-05.
Francisco Elson
The first Dutchman ever to win an NBA championship, Francisco Elson earned his ring with the 2007 San Antonio Spurs, eight years after Denver drafted the Cal center in the second round. Utah signed him to a two-year contract in 2010, one of the last stops in a career that began at age twelve in Rotterdam.
Drew Eubanks
Undrafted out of Oregon State in 2018, Eubanks turned a two-way deal into four seasons with San Antonio, then backup center work in Portland and Phoenix. Utah signed him to a two-year contract in August 2024 and traded him to the Clippers on his 28th birthday the following February.
Jeremy Evans
Utah drafted him 55th in 2010 out of Western Kentucky, where he remains the all-time blocks leader, and for five seasons Evans was the Jazz's resident highlight reel. He won the 2012 NBA Slam Dunk Contest by throwing down two basketballs in one leap over teammate Gordon Hayward, and a year later jumped over a painting of himself dunking — a canvas he painted himself.
Danté Exum
Straight out of Melbourne, Dante Exum arrived as the fifth pick of the 2014 draft, having skipped college entirely. The teenage guard played all 82 games as a rookie — only the 10th Jazz rookie ever to do so — but an ACL tear in 2015 began a run of shoulder, ankle and knee injuries that shadowed the rest of his Utah years before a December 2019 trade to Cleveland for Jordan Clarkson.
Jim Farmer
Dothan, Alabama raised him, and the University of Alabama polished the 6-foot-4 guard whom the Mavericks took 20th overall in 1987. Farmer's NBA path crossed five teams in parts of five seasons, with the Jazz signing him in January 1989 and his best stretch coming in Denver in 1990-91, when he averaged 10 points over 25 games.
Kyrylo Fesenko
Everything about the Dnipropetrovsk center came oversized — 7'1", a size 18 shoe, a 7'4" wingspan. Drafted 38th in 2007 by Philadelphia and traded to Utah, Fesenko debuted that November against the Lakers when Boozer and Okur were hurt, posting 6 points and 7 rebounds, and spent four seasons in the Jazz organization while shuttling to the Utah Flash.
Derek Fisher
Eighty-two games for the Jazz between his championship years in Los Angeles, and later president of the players' union. Signed Jazz cards exist in numbers.
Simone Fontecchio
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.
Trent Forrest
Forrest scored more than 3,000 points at Chipley High in the Florida panhandle and won a state title there before four years at Florida State, where he made Second Team All-ACC and won the Skip Prosser Award as the conference's top scholar-athlete — he once played through torn cartilage in his big toe without missing a game. Undrafted in 2020, he signed a two-way deal with the Jazz that November and earned a standard contract by April 2022.
Randy Foye
Newark's East Side High produced a New Jersey Player of the Year who became Big East Player of the Year at Villanova in 2006, beating out Rudy Gay for the honor. Drafted seventh overall that June, Foye was traded twice before playing a game, landing in Minnesota, where he made the All-Rookie First Team and once grabbed 16 rebounds — a Timberwolves record for a guard.
Enes Freedom
Drafted third overall by Utah in 2011 after the NCAA ruled him permanently ineligible for Kentucky over payments from Fenerbahçe, the young Turkish center played every game as a rookie and improved each year — including a 23-point, 22-rebound night against Charlotte in 2013 — before a February 2015 trade to Oklahoma City. He played 11 NBA seasons in all.
Bernie Fryer
A BYU guard who led the Cougars to the 1971 WAC title with 19.2 points a game, Fryer debuted with Portland in 1973 and made the All-Rookie second team. The next season he split time between the New Orleans Jazz and the ABA's Spirits of St. Louis, then retired as a player in 1975.
Todd Fuller
Few draft picks carry a footnote like his: Golden State took Fuller 11th in 1996, ahead of Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Peja Stojakovic and Jermaine O'Neal. The NC State center had led the ACC in scoring at 20.9 a game, graduated summa cum laude in applied mathematics, and declined a Rhodes Scholarship to turn pro. His five NBA seasons included 1998–99 with the Jazz.
Terry Furlow
Flint Northern won back-to-back Michigan state titles with Furlow, and at Michigan State he led the Big Ten with 29.4 points a game in 1975-76 — his 50-point night against Iowa is still the school record. Philadelphia took him 12th overall in 1976, but he found his best NBA form only after a midseason trade to the Jazz, averaging a career-high 16.0 points in 1979-80 with two 37-point games.
Sundiata Gaines
One shot bought him a place in Jazz lore. Five games into his NBA life on a 10-day contract, Gaines hit a buzzer-beating three — the first of his career — to beat Cleveland 97–96 on January 14, 2010, and Utah signed him for the rest of the season. The Queens native had been a two-time All-SEC pick at Georgia before going undrafted in 2008.
Chad Gallagher
The 1991 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year at Creighton, Gallagher went to Phoenix with the fifth pick of the second round that June. His entire NBA career fits on an index card: two games for the Jazz in February 1994 — three minutes, three shots, three makes, six points — a perfect field-goal percentage for the record books.
Andersson Garcia
Five games for Utah. Nothing signed exists in any known form.
Diante Garrett
Undrafted out of Iowa State despite leading the Big 12 in assists as a senior, Diante Garrett earned his NBA minutes the hard way — through Croatia, France and the D-League before Phoenix gave him a debut in 2012. The Jazz signed the Milwaukee point guard in November 2013 for what became his final NBA season.
Rudy Gay
Eighth pick in the 2006 draft out of UConn, Gay set a Memphis franchise record with 1,632 points in 2007-08, becoming just the third Grizzly to average 20 a game. A first-team All-Rookie selection and a Huskies of Honor inductee, the smooth scoring forward spent 2021 to 2023 with Utah and has since retired.
Keyonte George
Big 12 Freshman of the Year at Baylor, where his 506 points rank second in school history, George went 16th to Utah in the 2023 draft. Coach Will Hardy converted the natural shooting guard into a point guard, and he grew into one of the Jazz's leading scorers, hanging a career-high 43 points on Minnesota in January 2026.
John Gianelli
A 6-foot-10 big man from Stockton, Gianelli averaged 21.5 points and 17.2 rebounds as a senior at the University of the Pacific, which retired his number 23 in 1973. He won an NBA title as a rookie with the 1973 Knicks and played eight league seasons, once traded along with 3.3 million dollars for Bob McAdoo. His last NBA stop came with the Jazz, who acquired him in the Bernard King deal that sent Rich Kelley the other way.
Armen Gilliam
Fifty games for the Jazz late in his career. He died in 2011. A Jazz card exists unsigned, certified signatures are scarce.
Gordan Giricek
No NBA player since 1996 had scored more in a debut than Gordan Giricek's 29 points for Memphis in 2002. The Croatian sharpshooter came to Utah in a February 2004 trade for DeShawn Stevenson and gave the Jazz four seasons of efficient shooting — 53.8 percent from three in the 2007 playoffs, when Utah reached the Western Conference Finals. A heated argument with Jerry Sloan in December 2007 ended his stay, and days later he was traded for Kyle Korver.
Paul Grant
Wisconsin's leading scorer and shot-blocker in his lone Badger season after transferring from Boston College, Grant went 20th overall to Minnesota in 1997 — then lost his entire rookie year to a stress fracture in his foot. He was later packaged in the blockbuster Stephon Marbury trade to Milwaukee. The Jazz brought him to training camp twice, signed him on January 1, 2004, and after waiving him gave him a 10-day contract that same month.
Hayden Gray
A single NBA game for the Jazz. No cards have been produced.
Erick Green
College basketball's leading scorer in 2012–13 at 25.0 points a game, Erick Green won ACC Player of the Year at Virginia Tech despite a last-place team — joining Len Bias as the only players ever honored from teams with losing conference records. Utah drafted him 46th in 2013 and traded his rights that same night, but the Jazz circled back in January 2016, signing him to two 10-day contracts.
Jeff Green
Big East Player of the Year at Georgetown, Green carried the Hoyas to the 2007 Final Four and went fifth in that summer's draft. He made the All-Rookie First Team in Seattle and kept going for 18 seasons and a record 272 NBA teammates across 11 clubs, Utah in 2019-20 among them, finally winning a championship with Denver in 2023.
Sean Green
Queens playgrounds and the Riverside Church AAU program — where teammates included Kenny Anderson and Malik Sealy — set him on a path through Oak Hill Academy, a year under Jim Valvano at NC State, and a 23.2-point senior season at Iona. Indiana drafted him 41st in 1991, and in 1994 he came to the Jazz in the trade that brought Jeff Hornacek to Utah, finishing his NBA career there.
Tommie Green
Fifty-nine games for the Jazz in 1978-79. Only photographs are known to exist, no trading card. He has since died, which closes the set permanently.
Paul Griffin
Small-town Michigan shaped him. At Shelby High School he anchored back-to-back Class C state championships in 1971 and 1972, then left Western Michigan as the Broncos' all-time leading rebounder after carrying them to their first NCAA tournament and a Sweet Sixteen run in 1976. The New Orleans Jazz grabbed him in the fifth round of that year's draft, and he gave the young franchise three seasons.
Darrell Griffith
Dr. Dunkenstein arrived in Salt Lake City as the second overall pick in 1980, fresh off carrying his hometown Louisville Cardinals to their first NCAA title and collecting the Wooden Award. Asked to replace Pete Maravich, he averaged 20.6 points and won Rookie of the Year, then reinvented himself as a shooter — leading the NBA in three-point percentage in 1983–84 and twice setting the single-season record for threes made. All 12,391 of his career points came in a Jazz uniform, and the club retired his number 35 in 1993.
Tom Gugliotta
The youngest of seven from Long Island got his chance when his father phoned an old friend, Jim Valvano, and vouched for him — Googs grew into an All-American at NC State. Drafted sixth overall in 1992, he made the All-Rookie Team in Washington, was the centerpiece sent to Golden State for Chris Webber, and peaked as a 1997 All-Star in Minnesota scoring over 20 a game. Utah acquired the veteran in 2004 for Keon Clark and Ben Handlogten.
Ben Handlogten
Thirty-eight games for the Jazz after years in the minor leagues. Many cards exist and not one is signed.
Bob Hansen
An Iowa kid through and through — a state title at Des Moines Dowling, the 1980 Final Four with the Hawkeyes — Hansen went 54th to Utah in 1983 and stayed seven seasons, a starter by 1985–86 who never missed the playoffs as a Jazzman. The 1990 trade that brought Jeff Malone to Utah sent him to Sacramento.
James Hardy
Eleventh overall in the 1978 draft, Hardy went from the University of San Francisco to the New Orleans Jazz and never wore another NBA uniform — four seasons with the franchise, moving with it to Salt Lake City in 1979 and averaging 5.7 points and 5.3 rebounds a game as a 6-foot-9 power forward.
Elijah Harkless
Thirty-six games for the Jazz. Only unsigned cards exist.
Matt Harpring
A three-time first-team All-ACC pick at Georgia Tech — a feat matched only by Mark Price — Harpring had his jersey retired and earned Academic All-America honors before Orlando drafted him 15th in 1998. Trades moved him through three teams until he signed with the Jazz in 2002 and played the best ball of his life: 17.6 points a game beside Malone and Stockton, runner-up for Most Improved Player, then team captain after the two legends departed.
Devin Harris
Wisconsin's Mr. Basketball of 2001 became Big Ten Player of the Year at Madison and the fifth pick of the 2004 draft, arriving in Dallas via a draft-night trade. Devin Harris helped the Mavericks reach the 2006 NBA Finals, then blossomed after the 2008 trade for Jason Kidd, making the 2009 All-Star Game with New Jersey. His fifteen NBA seasons included a stop in Utah from February 2011 to July 2012.
Mike Harris
Twenty games in 2013-14. Only one card of him is known, a college issue, and it is unsigned.
Shaquille Harrison
Harrison turned down a football offer from Kansas to play basketball at Tulsa, where he became the only player in school history with 1,300 points, 400 assists, and 200 steals. Undrafted in 2016, he clawed into the NBA through the G League, earning a multi-year deal in Phoenix and two seasons with the Bulls. The Jazz signed him in December 2020 but waived him that February.
Jason Hart
Syracuse still lists him among its all-time leaders — the first freshman ever to lead the Big East in minutes, and the school's career steals leader. The Los Angeles point guard worked through nine NBA seasons, his best year coming in Charlotte in 2004-05 at 9.5 points and 5.0 assists a game. Utah signed him to a two-year, $5 million deal in 2007 to back up Deron Williams.
Steve Hayes
Idaho State remembers him for one of March's great upsets: 27 points and 12 rebounds as the Bengals beat UCLA 76-75 in the 1977 Sweet Sixteen. Drafted by the Knicks, the 7-foot center did not reach the NBA until 1981, at 26, after starring in Italy and winning the 1980 CBA title in Anchorage. He backed up centers for six NBA clubs, the Utah Jazz in 1985-86 his last, and was CBA Most Valuable Player with Tampa Bay in 1985.
Spencer Haywood
Born to Mississippi sharecroppers three months after his father died, Haywood picked cotton for two dollars a day before he headed north, first to Chicago and then to Detroit. At 19 he became the youngest American basketball Olympian ever, leading the 1968 gold-medal team in scoring. He won ABA MVP and Rookie of the Year in the same season in Denver, and his antitrust suit against the NBA opened the door for players to turn pro early. His Jazz chapter came in New Orleans in 1978-79, where he averaged 24.0 points and 9.6 rebounds in 34 games — the best scoring of his post-Seattle career.
Taylor Hendricks
Three Florida state championships in high school preceded a UCF freshman year that brought a conference-record nine AAC Rookie of the Week awards. Utah made Hendricks the ninth pick of the 2023 draft, the highest selection in UCF history, and he started 23 games as a rookie.
Juancho Hernangómez
Madrid-born and named the ACB's Best Young Player with Estudiantes, Hernangómez went 15th to Denver in the 2016 draft. Utah acquired him at the February 2022 deadline and waived him that June, and after a final NBA season in Toronto he returned to Europe and won the 2024 EuroLeague title with Panathinaikos.
George Hill
Loyalty defined George Hill before the NBA did — he turned down bigger schools for IUPUI in his native Indianapolis, keeping a promise tied to his ailing great-grandfather. San Antonio surprised the 2008 draft room by taking him 26th, and after five seasons with his hometown Pacers he was dealt to Utah in July 2016 for a year at the point.
Blake Hinson
Fourteen games for Utah. Cards are beginning to appear.
Rodney Hood
Meridian, Mississippi crowned him a state champion in 2011 before college took him from Mississippi State to Duke, where he captained the 2013-14 Blue Devils. Utah drafted him 23rd overall in 2014, and over four seasons Hood grew into a go-to scorer — a career-high 32 points in an overtime win over Memphis in January 2016, and his first NBA game-winner, a pull-up three with 0.8 seconds left against Dallas that December.
Talen Horton-Tucker
A Chicago kid from Simeon Career Academy — his No. 5 jersey hangs retired at his grade school, St. Matthias — Horton-Tucker spent one season at Iowa State before the Lakers landed him in the 2019 second round. At 19 years and 322 days he became the second-youngest NBA champion ever when Los Angeles won the 2020 title. Traded to Utah in August 2022 for Patrick Beverley, he scored a career-high 41 points against San Antonio in March 2023.
Danuel House Jr.
Raised in Houston's Fourth Ward, House starred for the hometown Cougars and then Texas A&M, sharing the 2016 SEC title and fueling the rally from 12 down in the final 44 seconds against Northern Iowa, the largest last-minute comeback in NCAA history. Undrafted in 2016, he pushed through a broken wrist, G League assignments and two-way contracts before securing an NBA career, reaching Utah for the 2021-22 season.
Josh Howard
Born with bowed legs that were broken and reset twice before his second birthday, Howard was raised by his grandmother Helen in Winston-Salem. At Wake Forest he became the unanimous 2003 ACC Player of the Year and the first member of his family to graduate from college. Drafted 29th by Dallas, he played ten NBA seasons, most of them as a Maverick, with a 2011-12 stop in Utah before a brief final turn in Minnesota.
Mo Howard
Out of Maryland, Howard got one NBA season, 1976-77, and split it between two teams: nine games with the Cleveland Cavaliers, then 23 with the New Orleans Jazz. In his 32 games he averaged 4.8 points in just under eleven minutes a night.
Stephen Howard
Raised in Dallas, Howard was an Academic All-American at DePaul who left school fifth on its all-time scoring and rebounding lists. Undrafted in 1992, he earned a Jazz roster spot through a tryout and wore Utah colors in 1992-93, 1993-94 and 1996-97 — the last after a short stop in San Antonio — then closed his NBA days in Seattle and played ten more years across 12 countries before retiring in 2008.
Troy Hudson
Undrafted out of college in 1997, Hudson fought his way onto the Utah Jazz in the fall of 1997 — a roster spot that lasted two months but opened an 11-year NBA career. He developed with Orlando, then peaked in Minnesota with 14.2 points a game in 2002-03, torching Los Angeles for 23.5 a night in the playoffs to earn the nickname Laker Killer and a six-year, $36 million extension.
Eddie Hughes
Eleven games for the Jazz. Only unsigned promotional cards from his Denver years are known to exist.
Jay Humphries
Inglewood High went undefeated and won the 1980 national championship with Humphries in the backcourt, and at Colorado he led the nation in steals in 1982-83. Phoenix took him 13th in 1984, Milwaukee got his prime years, and the Jazz traded Blue Edwards for him before the 1992-93 season. He scored 25 points in a Game 2 playoff win over San Antonio in 1994, part of Utah's run to the Western Conference Finals.
Marc Iavaroni
Europe made him NBA-ready. After Virginia, Iavaroni played four seasons overseas and joined the league at 26, then started 77 games as a rookie for the 1983 champion Philadelphia 76ers, averaging 5.8 points and 5.5 rebounds in the Finals sweep. San Antonio and then Utah followed, with the Jazz years running 1985 to 1989, before two more seasons in Italy and Spain closed his playing days in 1992.
Ersan İlyasova
Milwaukee was home for most of Ersan Ilyasova's 13 NBA seasons — four separate stints with the Bucks, including a 2012 night of 29 points and 25 rebounds that put him beside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Swen Nater as the only Bucks ever with a 25-and-25 game. The much-traveled Turkish forward reached Utah near the end, signing in March 2021 and delivering a 20-point game that April.
Frank Jackson
Utah raised Frank Jackson — a state championship at Lone Peak High, a Utah Mr. Basketball award, and co-MVP honors at the McDonald's All-American Game before he ever left for Duke. After one college season he went 31st in the 2017 draft, though two foot surgeries wiped out his entire rookie year with New Orleans.
Jaren Jackson Jr.
Three games for Utah. A Defensive Player of the Year elsewhere, with cards widely available.
Mark Jackson
A streetball-hardened point guard from St. Albans, Queens, Jackson won 1988 Rookie of the Year with the Knicks — the lowest draft pick to take the award in thirty years — after averaging 13.6 points and 10.6 assists. His 17-year career touched seven franchises, and the 2002–03 season in Utah came near the end, one season before he retired in 2004.
Dave Jamerson
Before the three-pointer ruled basketball, Dave Jamerson showed what it could do. On December 21, 1989, the Ohio University guard became the first Division I player to hit 14 threes in a game, scoring 60 points against Charleston. He finished third in the nation in scoring at 31.2 a game, won MAC Player of the Year, and went 15th overall to Miami in the 1990 draft. His three NBA seasons ran through Houston, Utah and New Jersey.
Henry James
Out of St. Mary's University in Texas, the 6-foot-8 forward scrapped through parts of seven NBA seasons with seven teams, including the 1992-93 Jazz. With Atlanta in 1996-97 he tied a record by hitting seven three-pointers in a single quarter. The CBA knew him best: parts of ten seasons, a 1996 championship with the Sioux Falls Skyforce, and Playoff MVP honors that same spring.
Othyus Jeffers
Fourteen games for the Jazz across a career built in the D-League. Nothing signed is known.
Al Jefferson
Straight out of tiny Prentiss, Mississippi — where he averaged an astonishing 42.6 points as a high school senior — Jefferson skipped college and went 15th to Boston in the 2004 draft. Three years later he was the centerpiece of the trade that sent Kevin Garnett to the Celtics, and in Minnesota he became a 20-point, 11-rebound man. Utah landed him in 2010, and his old-school post game anchored the Jazz frontcourt for three seasons.
Richard Jefferson
Seventeen NBA seasons carried this athletic small forward from back-to-back Finals trips with the Nets to a championship at last with Cleveland in 2016. In between, Utah acquired the former Arizona standout in the 2013 three-team trade that sent Andre Iguodala to Golden State, and he gave the rebuilding Jazz a season of veteran wing play. He also won bronze with the U.S. team at the 2004 Olympics.
Jonas Jerebko
Sweden had sent only one player to the NBA draft before Detroit took him 39th in 2009, and Jerebko's hustle made him a Pistons fan favorite as a rookie before a torn Achilles cost him the entire 2010–11 season. He gave Utah a season of stretch-forward minutes in 2017–18, then signed with Golden State — and tipped in a game-winner against his old Jazz teammates with 0.3 seconds left that October.
Grant Jerrett
California's Gatorade Player of the Year and a Parade All-American in 2012, Jerrett spent one season at Arizona before declaring for the 2013 draft, where he went 40th overall. The stretch forward reached Utah in a February 2015 three-team trade from Oklahoma City and spent the spring shuttling between the Jazz and the Idaho Stampede before being waived that fall.
Chris Johnson
Eighty-two games for the Jazz. No Jazz cards were produced.
Eric Johnson
Forty-eight games for Utah in 1989-90. A Jazz card is on the shelf unsigned, no signed example has been published.
Joe Johnson
"Iso Joe" came to Utah in 2016 with seven All-Star selections and one of the surest one-on-one games of his generation. The Arkansas Razorback went 10th to Boston in 2001 and made his name in Atlanta, where he earned the nickname for his isolation play and led the Hawks back to the playoffs after a nine-year drought. He retired among just 52 NBA players with 20,000 points.
Nate Johnston
Six games for Utah before a long career overseas. Only unsigned CBA cards are known.
Damian Jones
A Vanderbilt center taken 30th by Golden State in 2016, he collected two championship rings as a young reserve on the 2017 and 2018 Warriors, then settled into the life of a traveling big man. Utah acquired him at the February 2023 trade deadline and he finished the season with 19 games for the Jazz.
Jeff Judkins
Salt Lake City's own — Highland High, then the University of Utah — Judkins was taken by Boston in the second round of the 1978 draft, the Celtics' next pick after Larry Bird. He was the last Celtic to wear No. 32 before Kevin McHale arrived, and his five NBA seasons included a hometown stop with the Jazz in 1980-81.
Johnny Juzang
Born in Los Angeles to a Creole father and a Vietnamese mother, Juzang played at Harvard-Westlake, spent a quiet freshman year at Kentucky, then transferred to UCLA. The move made him — he carried the Bruins to the 2021 Final Four, scoring 28 against top seed Michigan and 29 in the overtime semifinal loss to Gonzaga, and was a third-team All-American in 2022 before joining the Jazz from 2022 to 2025.
Adam Keefe
At Stanford, Keefe lettered in both basketball and volleyball while earning a political science degree, leaving as the Pac-10's fifth all-time scorer after a senior year of 25.3 points and 12.2 rebounds. Atlanta made him the 10th pick in 1992, and most of his nine NBA seasons — 617 games, 5.0 points, 4.1 rebounds — were spent in Utah, with two closing years in Spain.
Rich Kelley
Stanford's 7-footer won bronze with Team USA at the 1974 FIBA World Championship, then became the New Orleans Jazz's first-round pick, seventh overall, in 1975. Across two Jazz tours in an eleven-season career, 1978-79 stands out — 15.7 points and 12.8 rebounds a game, second in the league on the glass, plus a then-franchise-record 166 blocked shots.
Stanton Kidd
Four games for the Jazz. The only card known is unsigned and was issued in Japan.
Bernard King
Forged on the Fort Hamilton playgrounds of Brooklyn and at Tennessee, King scored 1,909 points as a Nets rookie in 1977–78. Utah got only a glimpse — 19 games in 1979–80 — before trading him to Golden State, where the climb resumed. With the Knicks came back-to-back 50-point games in 1984, 60 on Christmas Day, and the 1984–85 scoring title at 32.9 a game.
Chris King
Wake Forest from 1988 to 1992, then the 45th pick by Seattle. King's fullest season came with expansion Vancouver in 1995–96 — 80 games, 66 starts, 7.9 points, and a tip-in at the buzzer to win the Grizzlies' home opener in overtime.
Brevin Knight
Nine NBA teams employed this quick-handed point guard between 1997 and 2009, and Utah was the final stop — he arrived in a July 2008 trade for Jason Hart to play out his last season. Knight left Stanford as its all-time leader in assists and steals, went 16th to Cleveland in 1997, finished second in the league in steals as a rookie and made the All-Rookie First Team, averaging 6.1 assists for his career.
Bart Kofoed
Fifty-five games for the Jazz. Cards exist in quantity but none signed and none showing the Jazz.
John Konchar
Twenty-six games for the Jazz. Only sticker autographs showing other teams are known.
Kyle Korver
The Nets sold his draft rights to Philadelphia for $125,000 in 2003 — money that reportedly covered a new copy machine — and the slight became his rallying cry. Traded to Utah in 2007, Korver shot .536 from three in 2009–10, still the NBA single-season accuracy record, and came back in 2018 for a second Jazz stint. He stands eighth all-time in three-pointers made and led the league in percentage four times.
Kosta Koufos
Greek immigrants Katerina and Alex Koufos raised him in Canton, Ohio, and their son was NIT Most Valuable Player in his lone Ohio State season before the Jazz drafted him 23rd in 2008. He spent two developmental years in Utah, then built a long career as a workmanlike center in Denver, Memphis and Sacramento, later adding EuroLeague stops with CSKA Moscow and Olympiacos.
Larry Krystkowiak
No Grizzly has matched him — Krystkowiak still holds the University of Montana's career records for points and rebounds and remains the only three-time Big Sky MVP. He played nine NBA seasons at power forward, mostly in Milwaukee, where he once averaged 12.7 points and 7.6 rebounds, with a 1992-93 stop in Utah.
Rusty LaRue
Thirty-three games for Utah and a rare three-sport athlete at Wake Forest. Only unsigned cards are known.
Ron Lee
Fearless hustle defined the man Oregon fans knew as one of the Kamikaze Kids. Lee remains the Ducks' all-time leading scorer with 2,085 points, made first-team All-Pac-8 all four seasons, and went tenth overall to Phoenix in the 1976 draft. He made the 1977 All-Rookie team, led the NBA in steals the next season, and finished the 1978-79 season with the Jazz.
Tim Legler
An Academic All-American at La Salle, Legler went undrafted in 1988 and spent years proving himself in the CBA, winning a championship and a scoring title with the Omaha Racers between short NBA stints — including one with the Jazz in 1992-93. Washington finally gave him a real role, and in 1995-96 he won the All-Star Weekend Three-Point Shootout with a record 65-point aggregate while leading the NBA in three-point percentage. His career 43.1 percent from deep ranks eighth all time.
Jim Les
Persistence was the whole game: waived by Atlanta, Philadelphia and Milwaukee before ever playing an NBA minute, Les was grinding through the CBA and the World Basketball League when the Jazz signed him in October 1988. He answered by playing all 82 games that season. Sacramento later got his best years — he led the NBA in three-point percentage in 1990-91 and was runner-up in the 1992 long-distance shootout. At Bradley he had compiled the second-most assists in NCAA history.
Quincy Lewis
Little Rock's Parkview High sent him off as Arkansas Gatorade Player of the Year, and at Minnesota he led the Big Ten in scoring at 23.1 points as a senior. The Jazz took him 19th overall in 1999, and he spent three seasons in Utah before the road led to Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos, and Spain's Bilbao.
Randy Livingston
In 1993 he was the top-ranked high school player in America — ahead of Rasheed Wallace and Jerry Stackhouse — a New Orleans prodigy who shared national co-player of the year honors with Jason Kidd. Knee injuries rewrote the story: 32 games in two years at LSU, then eleven NBA seasons spent proving himself for nine teams, with the Jazz among his stops. His 203 career games remain the fewest ever across 11-plus NBA seasons.
Kenneth Lofton Jr.
A guard until a growth spurt moved him to the post, Lofton starred at Louisiana Tech, where he was the first freshman to lead the team in rebounding since Paul Millsap. Undrafted in 2022, he won G League Rookie of the Year with Memphis and, in his first NBA start, poured in 42 points and 14 rebounds — the first player ever to open his starting career with a 40-and-10 game. The Jazz picked him up in March 2024.
Raul Lopez
Spain sent the Jazz a point guard they had to wait two years for — drafted 24th in 2001, Lopez tore his right ACL before ever suiting up and missed all of 2002–03. Healthy at last, he played every one of 82 games in 2003–04 behind Carlos Arroyo, handing out 3.7 assists a night. In 2005 he left in the largest trade in NBA history, a five-team deal moving 13 players.
Kevin Love
Thirty-seven games for Utah, a five-time All-Star and NBA champion in Cleveland. Signed cards are plentiful but expensive.
John Lucas III
Basketball royalty by birth — his father, John Lucas II, played and coached in the NBA — Lucas made his own name at Oklahoma State, where his winning shot against Saint Joseph's sent the Cowboys to the 2004 Final Four. Undrafted, he pieced together a career across the Rockets, Bulls, Raptors and Pistons plus stops in Italy, Spain and China, once scoring 25 points to lead a shorthanded Chicago team past Washington. He signed with the Jazz in July 2013 and gave Utah one season.
Shelvin Mack
Butler's Final Four teams of 2010 and 2011 were his proving ground — Mack started alongside Gordon Hayward on the squad that came one half-court heave from beating Duke for the national title. Stints with Washington, Philadelphia and Atlanta followed until a February 2016 trade brought him to Utah, reuniting him with Hayward and coach Quin Snyder. Within days he was the starting point guard, and that March he scored a career-high 27 against Washington.
Jeff Malone
Two-time All-Star with the Washington Bullets, the Mississippi State guard was one of the era's purest mid-range scorers — off-balance, fading, lethal coming off screens. As a rookie in 1984 he hit the Maryland Miracle, a falling-out-of-bounds game-winner launched from behind the backboard. Traded to Utah in 1990, he averaged 18.6 and then 20.2 points beside Stockton and Karl Malone (no relation) and helped reach the 1992 Western Conference Finals before the 1994 trade that brought Jeff Hornacek.
Danny Manning
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.
Pace Mannion
Salt Lake City born and University of Utah bred, Mannion went 43rd overall to Golden State in 1983 and played six NBA seasons for six teams, including a homecoming with the Jazz from 1984 to 1986.
Donyell Marshall
The fourth pick of the 1994 draft after a unanimous Big East Player of the Year season at UConn, Donyell Marshall logged fifteen NBA years across eight teams. Utah landed him in a 2000 four-team trade, and he spent two seasons scoring in double figures in the frontcourt beside Karl Malone and John Stockton before signing with Chicago. In 2005 he tied Kobe Bryant's NBA record with 12 three-pointers in a single game for Toronto.
Kenyon Martin Jr.
The son of NBA veteran Kenyon Martin, KJ skipped college for a postgraduate year at IMG Academy and went 52nd in the 2020 draft. Houston gave him room to grow: a 31-point night, all 82 games in 2022-23, a Slam Dunk Contest invitation. In February 2025 a five-team trade built around Jimmy Butler routed him through Detroit to Utah, where he played 19 games before a September waiver.
Tony Massenburg
An All-ACC second team pick at Maryland who played for three head coaches in four years, Massenburg was drafted 43rd by San Antonio in 1990 and then simply kept packing: his 12 NBA franchises tied the league record of his day. The Jazz were his 2002–03 stop, and in 2005 he became the first player to win a championship after playing for at least a dozen teams — back where he started, in San Antonio.
Wesley Matthews
Undrafted out of Marquette in 2009, Matthews signed a one-year deal with Utah, and by February Jerry Sloan had made the rookie his starting shooting guard. When Portland offered five years and $34 million the next summer, the Jazz declined to match — and he became an iron man there, playing 250 consecutive games until a 2012 hip injury and setting the Trail Blazers' career three-point record before tearing an Achilles in 2015.
Eric Maynor
VCU had never produced a first-round pick until the Jazz took Eric Maynor 20th in 2009 — fitting, since he had made the Rams famous with a game-winner over Duke in the 2007 NCAA tournament and left as the school's all-time leading scorer. His Utah stay lasted just 26 games: that December the Jazz traded him to Oklahoma City largely to escape the luxury tax, a move GM Kevin O'Connor called a difficult decision.
Bez Mbeng
Fifteen games for the Jazz. Only unsigned cards exist so far, with new products still to come.
Erik McCree
Four games in a Jazz uniform. Nothing signed is known.
Jim McElroy
Central Michigan sent the 6-foot-3 guard to the NBA in 1975, where he broke in with the New Orleans Jazz and stayed through most of the franchise's Louisiana years. In 1978-79 he ranked tenth in the league in total assists.
Billy McKinney
Quickness earned him the nickname The Crazed Hummingbird. The 6-foot guard from Zion, Illinois left Northwestern as its all-time leading scorer, a record that stood for 35 years, and played in the NBA from 1978 to 1986 for the Kings, Jazz, Nuggets, Clippers, and Bulls, averaging 8.0 points. His Utah stop came in 1980-81.
Keith McLeod
The 2002 MAC Player of the Year at Bowling Green went undrafted, so McLeod took the long way — USBL, CBA, Italy — before earning real NBA minutes with the Jazz in 2004–06. Utah packaged him with Devin Brown and Andre Owens in the July 2006 trade that brought Derek Fisher to Salt Lake City.
Joe Meriweather
Shot-blocking made Meriweather's name. The 6-foot-10 Southern Illinois center earned All-Rookie honors with Houston, then twice blocked ten shots in a game: first for the Jazz in 1977, his only career triple-double and a franchise record until Mark Eaton came along, and again for the Knicks in 1979, a mark that still stands in New York. He played ten NBA seasons for five teams and won bronze with the US at the 1974 FIBA World Championship.
CJ Miles
Drafted straight out of Dallas Skyline High in 2005 — 34th overall — Miles became the youngest player in Jazz history at 18 and the subject of Jerry Sloan's famous lecture about diapers and jockstraps. He grew up in the job across seven Utah seasons, scoring a career-high 40 against Minnesota in 2011, then hit a Cavaliers franchise-record ten threes in a 2014 game and played on for Indiana, Toronto, Memphis, Washington and Boston.
Dick Miller
Three NBA games, all for the Jazz. No trading card of any kind was ever produced, and he has since died. An index card, program or team photo would be the first known signed example.
Patty Mills
The third Indigenous Australian to play for his national team, Mills went 55th in the 2009 draft out of Saint Mary's and turned a bench role in San Antonio into a 2014 championship. At the Tokyo Olympics he led the Boomers to their first medal, and he stands fifth among Olympic basketball's all-time scorers. Utah was a late-career stop in 2024-25 before a deadline trade to the Clippers.
Elijah Millsap
Grambling, Louisiana raised four basketball-playing brothers — Elijah, John, Abraham and four-time All-Star Paul. Elijah's path was the hardest: undrafted out of UAB in 2010, he ground through the D-League, China and the Philippines before Utah signed him to a 10-day contract in January 2015. He stuck for a full year of defense-first minutes before being waived the next January.
Naz Mitrou-Long
Fifteen games for Utah. Only unsigned photographs are known.
Greg Monroe
Big East Rookie of the Year at Georgetown after a McDonald's All-American career in Harvey, Louisiana, Monroe went seventh overall to Detroit in 2010. He was the last Piston to wear No. 10 before it was retired for Dennis Rodman, and strung together three straight seasons of 1,000 points and 600 rebounds. A $50 million deal took him to Milwaukee in 2015, and his Jazz stop came near the end of a career that also passed through Phoenix and Boston.
Mikki Moore
Undrafted out of Nebraska — where he helped win the 1996 NIT, the school's first basketball championship of any kind — Moore ground through the CBA and D-League into a nine-team NBA journey that included the 2003–04 Jazz. The peak came in New Jersey in 2006–07: 9.8 points a game and a league-best .609 field goal percentage, the first undrafted player ever to lead the NBA in that category.
Otto Moore
Few big men logged more games without a single playoff appearance — 682, second only to Tom Van Arsdale. The 6-foot-11 center from Texas-Pan American gave nine seasons to Detroit, Phoenix, Houston, Kansas City-Omaha, and the New Orleans Jazz, twice averaging a double-double and ranking eighth in the league in blocks in 1975-76 as a Jazzman.
Juwan Morgan
Both of his parents served in the United States Army, and their son's game grew with matching discipline at Indiana — from 2.4 points a game as a freshman to second-team All-Big Ten honors as a junior averaging 16.5. Undrafted in 2019, Morgan signed a two-way contract with Utah that November and spent two seasons between the Jazz and the Salt Lake City Stars.
Chris Morris
Georgia's Mr. Basketball in 1984 and a two-time first-team All-SEC pick at Auburn, Morris went fourth overall to New Jersey in the 1988 draft. He shattered a backboard against the Bulls in 1993, scored 8,184 career points, and spent 1995–98 with the Jazz, appearing in the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals — though he and Jerry Sloan once nearly came to blows at practice.
Emmanuel Mudiay
War shaped Emmanuel Mudiay's childhood before basketball could. Born in Kinshasa, he lost his father as a toddler, and his mother fled the Second Congo War with her sons, winning asylum in the United States in 2001. A decade later he was one of Texas's top recruits — and he skipped college entirely, signing a $1.2 million contract in China before Denver took him seventh overall in 2015.
Chris Munk
Eleven games for the Jazz in 1990-91. Exactly one card of him exists, a CBA issue, and it is unsigned.
Eric Murdock
They called him the 'Man of Steal' at Providence, where Eric Murdock set an NCAA career steals record that stood until 2002. Utah drafted him 21st overall in 1991 for one season before his best years came in Milwaukee — 82 games and 15.3 points a night in 1993–94, plus immortality as a playable character in NBA Jam.
Kevin Murphy
At Tennessee Tech, Murphy hung 50 points on SIU Edwardsville in January 2012 — the highest single-game total by any Division I player that season. The Jazz drafted him 47th that summer, and he split his rookie year between Utah and the D-League's Reno Bighorns before departing in the 2013 three-team trade built around Andre Iguodala.
Svi Mykhailiuk
A professional at 15 with hometown Cherkaski Mavpy, Mykhailiuk played for Ukraine at the 2014 FIBA World Cup before he ever enrolled at Kansas, where he set a school record with 115 three-pointers as a senior. Drafted 47th in 2018, he traveled through seven teams and won a ring with the 2024 Celtics, only the second Ukrainian to play in an NBA Finals. Utah signed him to a four-year deal in August 2024, and he hit a career-high 28 points in November 2025.
Kenny Natt
Twenty-six games for the Jazz before a long coaching career. Few cards exist and none signed.
Ruben Nembhard
Eight games on short-term contracts. A SkyBox rookie card is in the archive unsigned — a signed one would be the first I have seen.
Raul Neto
Brazil's 'Raulzinho' came up through Minas Tenis Clube and Spain's Liga ACB before the Jazz, who had held his draft rights since 2013, brought him over in 2015. He started his very first NBA game, made the 2016 Rising Stars Challenge for the World Team, and gave Utah four seasons of steady backup point guard play until the Mike Conley trade squeezed him off the roster in 2019.
Georges Niang
Nicknamed "the Minivan," Niang was a two-time All-American at Iowa State who topped 2,000 career points and set program records for games played and wins. Drafted 50th by Indiana in 2016, he found his NBA footing in Utah, where a two-way contract in January 2018 grew into a standard deal and more than three seasons of reliable bench shooting.
Carl Nicks
Academic trouble nearly ended it early. A 1.6 GPA pushed Nicks from Indiana State to a Florida junior college, and he came back with a 3.5 and a purpose. Nicknamed Mr. Intensity, he ran alongside Larry Bird to the 1979 NCAA final, then averaged 26.8 points as a senior. Denver drafted him 23rd overall in 1980 and traded him to Utah that December, where he played through 1982.
Steve Novak
Wisconsin's high school player of the year became a Marquette sharpshooter who reached the 2003 Final Four with Dwyane Wade and once hung 41 points on second-ranked UConn. Drafted 32nd by Houston in 2006, he built a long NBA career on one elite skill — in 2011-12 with the Knicks he led the league in three-point percentage at 47.2, and Walt Frazier nicknamed him Novakaine. Utah acquired him from Toronto in July 2014 for Diante Garrett.
Jusuf Nurkić
Forty-one games for the Jazz, a Bosnian centre with a long NBA career. Cards exist showing other teams.
J.J. O'Brien
Two games for Utah. Nothing signed has appeared.
Mehmet Okur
'Memo is Money,' Jazz fans said, and the 6'11" Turk earned it — a three-point shooting center with a taste for big shots across seven Utah seasons. Okur arrived in 2004 on a six-year, $50 million deal, fresh off becoming the first Turkish player to win an NBA title with Detroit. In 2007 he became the first Turk in an All-Star Game, and he once scored 43 against Indiana. A ruptured Achilles in the 2010 playoffs cut his prime short.
Kelly Olynyk
Two seasons off the Utah bench as a stretch big before the 2024 trade to Toronto. Certified autographs of him exist in quantity — this is a position that should close quickly.
Royce O'Neale
Undrafted out of Baylor in 2015, O'Neale took the long road to Salt Lake City — a year with Riesen Ludwigsburg in Germany, another with Gran Canaria in Spain, and a contract with Lithuania's Žalgiris he never played under before the Jazz signed him in 2017. Two and a half seasons of sturdy wing defense later, Utah rewarded him with a four-year, $36 million extension in January 2020.
Miye Oni
Nobody recruited him — Division III Williams College was his only real option out of Viewpoint School in Los Angeles. Yale coach James Jones spotted his highlight tape in 2015, and after a prep year at Suffield Academy, Oni blossomed into the 2019 Ivy League Player of the Year and a three-time All-Ivy selection. That improbable climb carried him to Utah, where he spent his NBA years from 2019 to 2022.
José Ortiz
The first Puerto Rican-born player drafted into the NBA, 'Piculin' was Pac-10 Player of the Year at Oregon State in 1987, finishing ahead of Reggie Miller in the voting. Utah took him 15th overall, and after a season in Zaragoza he wore number 44 for the Jazz in 1988–90. The FIBA Hall of Fame called in 2019, honoring a 26-year career. Considered by many the greatest Puerto Rican player ever, he died in May 2026 at 62.
Dan O'Sullivan
Twenty-one games in 1990-91. No trading card of any kind exists, the only known image is one Jazz photograph.
Andre Owens
An Indiana All-Star out of Perry Meridian High in Indianapolis, Owens played for Indiana University, transferred to Houston, went undrafted, and still cracked the Jazz roster for 2005–06. The following July, Utah shipped him to Golden State alongside Devin Brown and Keith McLeod in the trade for Derek Fisher.
Scott Padgett
Kentucky basketball defined him first. After sitting out a year for academics, the Louisville native became the starting power forward on the Wildcats' 1998 national championship team, remembered for a go-ahead three that capped a 17-point comeback against Duke. The Jazz made him a first-rounder, 28th overall in 1999, and he spent four seasons in Utah, appearing in every game of his final one.
Milt Palacio
Raised in Los Angeles by Belizean parents, Palacio went undrafted out of Colorado State in 1999 yet lasted seven NBA seasons. His signature moment came for Boston in December 2000 — a stolen pass and an off-balance 30-footer at the buzzer that beat New Jersey and earned him the nickname 'Miracle Milt.' A solid 2005–06 season with the Jazz closed out his NBA run.
Walter Palmer
A 7-foot-1 center from Dartmouth — hardly a common NBA pipeline — Palmer was Utah's second-round pick in 1990 and played 48 league games for the Jazz and Mavericks, scoring exactly 100 points. He kept playing in Europe and South America, and that journey changed his life's work.
Eric Paschall
A stepback so deadly it earned him the nickname 'Stepzz,' Eric Paschall climbed from Fordham to Villanova, scoring 24 points on 10-of-11 shooting in the 2018 Final Four win over Kansas that sent the Wildcats to the title game. Golden State took him 41st in 2019 and he made the All-Rookie First Team, once dropping 34 points and 13 rebounds on his own birthday.
Billy Paultz
The Whopper out of St. John's chose the ABA in 1970, pulled down 33 rebounds in a game for the Nets, won the 1974 ABA title, made four All-Star teams and led the league with 253 blocks in 1975–76. The NBA years brought San Antonio, then Houston and the 1981 Finals alongside Moses Malone — plus, thanks to a midseason trade, an 84-game season in an 82-game year.
Sasha Pavlović
Podgorica's Buducnost club raised him, and the Jazz drafted the Montenegrin swingman 19th overall in 2003. His rookie season in Utah — 4.8 points across 79 games — was his only one there before Charlotte took him in the expansion draft and flipped him to Cleveland a day later. There he peaked, starting all 20 games of the Cavaliers' run to the 2007 NBA Finals.
Norvel Pelle
Three games for Utah. The few cards that exist are unsigned.
Tibor Pleiss
Standing 7-foot-3, Pleiss was playing German first-division ball at 17 and rose through Brose Baskets, Baskonia, and FC Barcelona before cashing in draft rights that dated to 2010 and had passed through three teams. He signed with Utah in July 2015, debuted that October, and spent his single NBA season shuttling between the Jazz and the Idaho Stampede.
Olden Polynice
One hundred and sixty-three games across two Jazz spells. Jazz cards exist in quantity but almost none carry a signature.
Ben Poquette
Central Michigan sent him to Detroit as a 1977 second-round pick, but his best basketball came after the Jazz landed in Salt Lake City. Undersized for a center at 6-foot-9, Poquette held down the middle for a roster that had traded away its big men, setting franchise records for career blocks (517) and blocks in a season (174 in 1980–81) — a year he also led the NBA in personal fouls.
Micah Potter
Patience defined Potter's path. He left Ohio State for Wisconsin and sat out nearly a year and a half on transfer rules and a denied eligibility appeal, then went undrafted in 2021. Utah gave him two-way contracts in 2022 and again in 2024, and he appeared in 38 games for the Jazz in 2024-25.
Roger Powell
Powell started every game for the Illinois team that won 37 games and reached the 2005 national title game, finishing his college days with 1,178 points. Undrafted, he was named CBA Rookie of the Year with Rockford, then earned a spot on the 2006–07 Jazz, reuniting with Illini teammates Deron Williams and Dee Brown. His first NBA points came on two free throws against Phoenix in November 2006.
Jason Preston
Two points a game in high school — that was the whole resume. Preston planned to study journalism at Central Florida before a growth spurt, a prep-school year and highlights posted to Twitter earned him an offer from Ohio University. There he became a triple-double point guard, MAC tournament MVP, and the engine of Ohio's 2021 NCAA upset of Virginia, then went 33rd in the draft.
Ronnie Price
No scholarship offers came for the 5-foot-7 senior out of Friendswood, Texas, so Price walked on at Nicholls State, grew six inches, and transferred to Utah Valley State — where a 24.3-point senior season made him the school's first NBA player. Undrafted, he broke in with Sacramento, then signed with the Jazz in 2007 and spent four seasons backing up Deron Williams. His signature moment: a chase-down block of Luke Walton in the 2008 playoffs, delivered with four fresh stitches over his eye.
Aleksandar Radojević
Basketball found him late — a 7-foot-3 kid from Yugoslavia who played football and water polo until age 16. Ruled ineligible by the NCAA over money he took at Buducnost, he detoured through Barton County Community College, went to Toronto in the first round in 1999, and lost two seasons to injuries. His NBA farewell was 12 games with the Jazz in 2004–05, folded into a long European career.
Fred Roberts
Provo-born and BYU-polished alongside Danny Ainge and Greg Kite, Roberts began his pro life in Bologna before a 13-season NBA journey. Utah acquired the power forward from San Antonio in 1984, then in 1986 matched Boston's offer sheet only to trade him to the Celtics for a draft pick and two preseason games. He reached the 1987 Finals with Boston and had his best years in Milwaukee, once scoring 33 playoff points against Dennis Rodman's Pistons.
Truck Robinson
Robinson signed with the New Orleans Jazz as a free agent in 1977 and delivered a season for the ages: 22.7 points and a league-leading 15.7 rebounds a game in 1977-78, All-NBA First Team, and an All-Star nod — at 6-foot-7, one of the first non-centers ever to win a rebounding title. The Tennessee State product had waited his turn behind Elvin Hayes in Washington, reaching the 1975 Finals with the Bullets.
Bill Robinzine
When Darryl Dawkins shattered a backboard in Kansas City in November 1979, it was Robinzine fleeing beneath the falling glass, and Dawkins worked his name into the dunk's title. He deserved better billing: a tough rebounder and one of the league's better defensive power forwards over seven seasons, five with the Kings, the last with Utah in 1981-82. His father had been DePaul's first African-American basketball player in 1955.
Scott Roth
Two-time All-Big Ten at Wisconsin, Roth took the scenic route to the NBA — two seasons with Efes Pilsen in Turkey and a CBA year in Albany before the Jazz signed him in February 1988. He played 42 games for Utah, finished his NBA time with San Antonio and expansion Minnesota, and closed his playing days in Spain, Greece, and Turkey.
Ricky Rubio
Spain's boy wonder debuted in the ACB at 14 years and 11 months — the youngest ever — and in the EuroLeague days after turning 16. Drafted fifth by Minnesota in 2009, he stayed home with Barcelona long enough to win the 2010 EuroLeague crown, then ran the Timberwolves offense for six seasons before a June 2017 trade brought his artful passing to Utah for two years.
Delaney Rudd
Backing up John Stockton required patience, and Delaney Rudd had plenty — three seasons as the Jazz's reserve point guard after a college career at Wake Forest and two years with PAOK in Greece. His moment came in Game 5 of the 1992 Western Conference Finals: with Stockton out with an eye injury and Utah trailing late, Rudd swished a 23-foot three-pointer that silenced the Portland crowd and forced overtime.
Michael Ruffin
A chemical engineering student at Tulsa, Ruffin made the NBA on defense and rebounding alone — 1.7 points but 3.9 boards a game across nine seasons after Chicago drafted him in the second round in 1999. His year with the Jazz came in 2003-04, one stop in a career that also ran through Philadelphia, Washington, Milwaukee and Portland.
Brandon Rush
A Kansas City kid who became a Kansas legend — starting small forward on the Jayhawks' 2008 national champions, MVP of the semifinal win over North Carolina, his No. 25 retired in 2017. Drafted 13th in 2008, he overcame two torn ACLs, the first suffered in a secret pre-draft workout arranged by Knicks scouts. A July 2013 three-team trade sent him with Andris Biedrins to Utah in the deal that made Andre Iguodala a Warrior.
Luka Samanic
Samanic did not touch a basketball until he was 11 — football, handball, tennis and even breakdancing came first — but the son of a 19-year pro from Zagreb caught up fast. At 16 he joined Barcelona's youth ranks, won the 2017 European under-18 Division B title with Croatia as tournament MVP, and San Antonio drafted him 19th in 2019. His Jazz stint ran from March 2023 through the 2023-24 season.
Fred Saunders
A second-round pick of the Phoenix Suns in 1974, 31st overall, Saunders played power forward for the Suns and Boston Celtics during the decade, with his New Orleans Jazz stop coming in 1977-78. He began college at Louisiana-Lafayette, then transferred to Syracuse for his senior year and helped the 19-7 Orangemen reach the NCAA tournament.
Danny Schayes
The son of Hall of Famer Dolph Schayes carried a famous name lightly. Danny starred at Syracuse as an Academic All-American with a Carrier Dome record 23 rebounds in a game, and the Utah Jazz made him the 13th pick of the 1981 draft. Two seasons in Utah opened an 18-year, 1,138-game NBA career whose best stretch came in Denver, where he averaged 13.9 points and 8.2 rebounds in 1987-88.
Carey Scurry
Long Island University sent the Brooklyn-born forward to the NBA, where he spent three seasons from 1985 to 1988 with the Jazz and Knicks, averaging 4.7 points. The longer career came abroad — Greece, Spain, Argentina, Chile and Brazil, where coach Helio Rubens Garcia rated him the third-most-talented player he ever coached. The Northeast Conference named him to its 25th-anniversary team in 2006.
Thabo Sefolosha
No Swiss player had reached the NBA before him. The son of a South African musician and a Swiss artist from Vevey, Sefolosha turned professional at 17, went 13th in the 2006 draft, and built a long career on defense — All-Defensive Second Team in 2010 and a starter for Oklahoma City's 2012 Finals team. He signed with Utah in 2017, though knee surgery ended his first Jazz season early.
Brice Sensabaugh
Orlando's Lake Highland Prep produced him — Florida Mr. Basketball as a senior after losing his entire junior year to a knee injury, and once a 51-point scorer in an Ohio pro-am summer game. One season at Ohio State brought third-team All-Big Ten honors, and Utah called his name with the 28th pick of the 2023 draft.
Robert Smith
One of UNLV's fabled 'Hardway Eight,' the 5-foot-11 point guard helped Jerry Tarkanian's Runnin' Rebels reach their first Final Four in 1977 — the school honored his jersey in 2022. Denver drafted him in the third round in 1977, launching a seven-team, seven-season pro career. His Jazz chapter was brief — traded to Utah in October 1979, he was waived after six games and landed with New Jersey.
Xavier Sneed
A St. Louis product from Hazelwood Central, Sneed played 137 games over four years at Kansas State, earning All-Big 12 honorable mention as a senior with 14.2 points a game and one of the conference's best steal rates. Undrafted in 2020, he pushed through the G League and a Memphis 10-day contract before the Jazz signed him to a two-way deal in February 2022, a stay that ended that September.
Kirk Snyder
Snyder led Nevada to its first Sweet 16 in 2004, beating second-seeded Gonzaga and Michigan State along the way, and the Jazz took him 16th overall that June. Utah dealt him after one season in a 13-player, five-team blockbuster, and he found his best form in New Orleans, where a 28-point night against Minnesota marked his career high. His NBA run ended in 2008 with the Timberwolves.
Felton Spencer
Louisville produced him, and Louisville mourned him. Felton Spencer set the Cardinals' career field goal percentage record before Minnesota took him sixth overall in 1990, and a 1993 trade brought him to Utah as Mark Eaton's successor in the middle. He averaged 8.6 points and 8.3 rebounds in his first Jazz season, but a ruptured Achilles in 1994–95 cost him the heart of his prime while Utah won 60 games without him.
Jaden Springer
Tennessee's SEC All-Freshman guard went 28th to Philadelphia in 2021 but spent most of his first two seasons in the G League, winning the 2023 title and championship-game MVP with the Delaware Blue Coats. Traded to Boston, he collected an NBA ring with the 2024 champion Celtics. Utah signed him to a 10-day contract in February 2025, extended it to a three-year deal, then waived him that July.
John Starks
From bagging groceries at a Tulsa Safeway to the All-Star Game — Starks bounced through four Oklahoma colleges, went undrafted in 1988, and clawed his way onto the Knicks in 1990. There he authored 'The Dunk' over Michael Jordan in the 1993 playoffs, became the first player with 200 three-pointers in a season, and won Sixth Man of the Year in 1997. He closed his career with the Jazz in 2000–02.
DeShawn Stevenson
Straight out of high school, Stevenson went 23rd to Utah in the 2000 draft and started games for the Jazz at 19. He finished second in the 2001 dunk contest and logged 222 games over four Utah seasons before a 2004 trade to Orlando. The first NBA player ever to wear number 92, he built it from the 9 he wore in Orlando and the 2 he wore in Utah and Washington.
David Stockton
Gonzaga was the natural path for the son of Hall of Fame point guard John Stockton, and David worked from redshirt to senior starter, earning WCC All-Tournament honors in 2014. Undrafted, he became a D-League workhorse in Reno, tying the league single-game record with 22 assists and posting a 36-point triple-double in 2015.
Ira Terrell
Dallas made him — Roosevelt High School, then SMU across town — and the 6-foot-8 power forward reached the NBA in 1976. Terrell played three seasons for the Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Jazz and Portland Trail Blazers, averaging 7.0 points and 4.2 rebounds per game.
Malcolm Thomas
Raised in San Diego mostly by his mother and aunts — his father was an honorable mention All-American at Missouri and a Clippers draft pick — he fought his way up through Pepperdine, a junior college MVP season and two All-Mountain West years at San Diego State, reaching the 2011 Sweet 16. Undrafted, he bounced through the Korean league, the D-League, the Lakers, Spurs, Bulls and beyond, and played 7 games for the Jazz in the second half of the 2013-14 season before a July 2014 trade to Cleveland.
Matt Thomas
A two-time all-state pick who scored more than 2,000 points at Onalaska High in Wisconsin, Thomas starred at Iowa State, then earned the nickname Mr. 99% in Spain for his unguarded catch-and-shoot precision with Valencia. He now plays for Besiktas in Turkey's top league.
Brooks Thompson
Colorado's Player of the Year in 1989 after a perfect 24–0 title season at Littleton High, Thompson played at Texas A&M and Oklahoma State before Orlando took him 27th in 1994. His 168-game NBA run passed through five teams — the Jazz in 1996–97 among them — with a 26-point career night for Denver along the way.
Bob Thornton
A Southern California big man from UC Irvine, Thornton was an 87th pick in 1984 who stretched it into eight NBA seasons — 283 games for five teams, the Jazz among them in 1991–92, plus three years in Italy's top league.
Jamaal Tinsley
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.
Andy Toolson
His BYU career paused for two years while he served a church mission in Concepcion, Chile — he returned to average 18.3 points as a senior and make first-team Academic All-America. Undrafted, he signed with the Jazz in October 1990 and played 47 games, came back for 13 more in 1995–96, and spent much of the decade starring in Spain, winning the 1997 Copa del Rey with Joventut.
Juan Toscano-Anderson
East Oakland made him — his number 95 honors his boyhood home on 95th Avenue. Son of an African-American father and a Mexican-American mother whose own father immigrated from Michoacan, Toscano-Anderson played four years at Marquette, went undrafted, and fought his way to an NBA championship with the 2022 Golden State Warriors. His Jazz stint came in 2022-23.
Kelly Tripucka
The son of NFL quarterback Frank Tripucka, Kelly scored 2,278 points at Bloomfield High in New Jersey and led Notre Dame to its only Final Four in 1978. An All-Star as a Pistons rookie, he averaged 26.5 points in 1982-83, then arrived in Utah in the 1986 trade that sent Adrian Dantley to Detroit. He and coach Frank Layden never clicked — his scoring fell to 9.1 a game over two frustrating seasons before expansion Charlotte revived him at 22.6 points.
Oscar Tshiebwe
Growing up in Lubumbashi in the DR Congo, Tshiebwe played soccer and trained by running hills and a mountain near home — he did not start basketball until May 2014. Eight years later he was consensus national player of the year at Kentucky, once pulling down a Rupp Arena-record 28 rebounds. Undrafted in 2023, he set a G League single-season rebounding record with Indiana, then signed a two-way deal with the Jazz in August 2024.
Rayjon Tucker
The Charlotte native took the long way: Florida Gulf Coast, a transfer, then a 20.3-point season at Arkansas-Little Rock before going undrafted in 2019. With the G League's Wisconsin Herd he poured in 23.8 a game — once, not even dressed for the game, he handed out water to teammates — and on December 24, 2019, the Jazz signed him for the rest of the season, his defense earning rotation minutes that January.
Melvin Turpin
Kentucky made him an All-American — a 6'11" center who once hit 18 of 22 shots for 42 points against Tennessee and started on the Wildcats' 1984 Final Four team. Washington took him sixth overall in 1984 and dealt him straight to Cleveland. Cleveland traded him to the Jazz in October 1987, and after one season Utah sent him to Spain's CAI Zaragoza in exchange for Jose Ortiz, part of an NBA run of 361 games and 8 points a night.
Ekpe Udoh
With a 7-foot-4 wingspan and a shot-blocker's timing, Ekpe Udoh went sixth overall to Golden State in 2010 after leading the Big 12 in blocks at Baylor. When the NBA cooled on him, he conquered Europe instead — a EuroLeague championship with Fenerbahçe in 2017, earning Final Four MVP honors — and Utah brought him back on a two-year deal that summer.
Denzel Valentine
No Spartan had ever been named Associated Press National Player of the Year until Valentine won it in 2016, averaging 19.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 7.5 assists as a Michigan State senior. Chicago drafted him 14th that June, and he gave the NBA six seasons with the Bulls, Cavaliers and Jazz, finishing with Utah in 2021-22.
Jarred Vanderbilt
Injuries limited the McDonald's All-American to 14 games at Kentucky, and he slid to 41st in the 2018 draft. Vanderbilt rebuilt his value in Minnesota as a relentless rebounder and defender, then arrived in Utah in the July 2022 Rudy Gobert trade. Half a season later the Jazz sent him to the Lakers, where he won the NBA's first In-Season Tournament in 2023 and signed a four-year extension.
Brett Vroman
A seven-footer out of UNLV. A TCMA CBA card is in the archive unsigned, and no signed example has ever appeared.
Andre Wakefield
Sixty-two NBA games across the franchise's move west. A TCMA CBA card is on the shelf unsigned, and no certified autograph card of him has ever been made.
Neal Walk
Phoenix lost the 1969 coin flip for Lew Alcindor and drafted Walk second overall instead — a tag he shrugged off, and by 1972-73 he was averaging 20.2 points and 12.4 rebounds, still the only Sun besides Charles Barkley with a 20-and-12 season. Florida's all-time rebounding leader came to the New Orleans Jazz by trade, finished with the Knicks, then played in Italy and Israel.
Andy Walker
Niagara University sent Walker to the pros in 1976, when New Orleans claimed the small forward in the seventh round of the draft. He spent the 1976–77 season with the Jazz — his one year in the NBA.
Jamie Watson
Utah drafted the South Carolina forward 47th overall in 1994, and the 6-foot-7, 190-pound swingman spent most of his NBA time with the Jazz through 1997, plus a brief Dallas stop and three games for Miami in 1999.
Slick Watts
Shaving his head at 13 after a football injury left his hair growing in patches, Watts turned the look and an off-center headband into one of the NBA's most recognizable styles. Undrafted out of Xavier of Louisiana, he made Seattle as a free agent under Bill Russell and in 1975-76 became the first player ever to lead the league in both assists and steals, then was traded midseason to the New Orleans Jazz in 1978.
Kyle Weaver
His father LaMont played college ball at Wisconsin, and Kyle followed the bloodline out of Beloit Memorial High School to Washington State, where he once posted 25 points and 12 rebounds against Stanford at Staples Center. Charlotte drafted him 38th in 2008 and dealt him to Oklahoma City, and after long months in the D-League the Jazz signed him on March 30, 2011, for the season's final stretch.
Robert Whaley
Walsh University had never won a national title until Whaley, the 2004-05 NAIA Division II Player of the Year, delivered one — the last stop on a road through Benton Harbor High, Barton County Community College, and Cincinnati. The Jazz took him 51st in 2005, and as of 2018 no NAIA player had been drafted since. Knee trouble limited his rookie year to 23 games before Utah traded him to Toronto in the Rafael Araujo deal.
Eric White
One NBA game — for the Jazz in 1988-89. A single unsigned card exists and nothing else.
Jerome Whitehead
Marquette's 1977 national title ran through him — in the Final Four semifinal, Whitehead caught Butch Lee's length-of-the-court pass and scored the winning basket at the buzzer against UNC-Charlotte. Drafted 41st in 1978, the 6-foot-10 center passed through the Utah Jazz in the second half of 1979-80 on his way to an 11-year NBA career of 679 games and 4,423 points for six teams.
Hassan Whiteside
As a Marshall freshman Whiteside blocked 182 shots, a national freshman record, then went 33rd to Sacramento in 2010. When the Kings let him go he wandered through Lebanon, China and the D-League until Miami signed him in late 2014 and he became one of the league's great rim protectors, leading the NBA in blocks in 2016, rebounding in 2017, and blocks again in Portland. He closed his NBA run in Utah in 2021-22.
Jeff Wilkins
Illinois State's big man waited for his NBA shot. Drafted in the second round by San Antonio in 1977 but waived before the season, Wilkins put in time with the CBA's Hawaii Volcanos before the Utah Jazz signed him in 1980. He spent nearly all of his NBA career in Utah, six seasons at 8.1 points and 5.7 rebounds a game, until a mid-season trade returned him to the Spurs for his 1986 finish.
Aaron Williams
Xavier's undrafted big man got his first NBA shot from the Jazz in 1993–94 — and turned it into fourteen seasons across ten franchises. His peak came with New Jersey in 2000–01: all 82 games, 10.1 points, 7.2 rebounds, plus a league-leading 319 personal fouls, an honest workman's stat line. In 2004 he was part of the blockbuster trade that brought Vince Carter to the Nets.
Deron Williams
Two state wrestling titles came before basketball for Deron Williams, who grew into the point guard who led Illinois to the 2005 NCAA final and went third overall to Utah that June. By his second season he was second in the league in assists behind Steve Nash, once handing out 21 in a single game, and he pushed the Jazz to the 2007 Northwest Division title and back to the playoffs after a three-year absence.
Duck Williams
One line in the NBA register is nearly all that survives of Duck Williams' career: Utah Jazz, 1979–80. Born Donald Edgar Williams in Demopolis, Alabama, in 1956 and raised in Washington, D.C., he reached the league for a single season.
Elliot Williams
Bad luck stalked Elliot Williams at every turn. A five-star recruit who played at Duke before finishing at Memphis, he went 22nd overall to Portland in 2010 — then lost his rookie season to a knee injury, much of the next to a dislocated shoulder, and all of 2012–13 to an Achilles tear. Utah gave him two 10-day contracts in January 2015.
Freeman Williams
Twice the NCAA scoring champion at Portland State, Williams stands third in Division I history in career points, behind only Pete Maravich and Antoine Davis. The Celtics drafted him eighth overall in 1978, but San Diego was where he shone, including a 51-point game against Phoenix in 1980. Utah acquired him with John Drew in the September 1982 trade for draftee Dominique Wilkins, who had refused to sign with the Jazz.
Marvin Williams
Williams never started a game in his lone North Carolina season, yet his tip-in broke a 70-70 tie in the closing minutes of the 2005 NCAA final and sent the Tar Heels to the championship. Drafted second overall by Atlanta, he gave the Hawks seven seasons before a 2012 trade for Devin Harris brought him to Utah, where he spent two steady years at forward.
Mo Williams
Jackson, Mississippi produced him, Alabama refined him — a freshman starter on a 27–8 SEC championship team — and Utah drafted him 47th in 2003. The Jazz declined to match Milwaukee's offer sheet after his rookie year, then watched him become a 2009 All-Star in Cleveland. He came back to Utah late in his career and won the 2016 championship with the Cavaliers before retiring in 2017.
Nate Williams
History remembers the 6-foot-5 swingman from Utah State as the first name called in the NBA's 1971 hardship draft, a supplemental draft created for college underclassmen. He made the chance count: eight seasons with the Cincinnati Royals and Kansas City-Omaha Kings, the New Orleans Jazz, and the Golden State Warriors, totaling 7,709 career points.
Rickey Williams
Forty-four games for the Jazz in 1982-83 and no signed item of any kind on record.
Vince Williams Jr.
Six games for the Jazz. An on-card signed example with game-worn material is known to exist.
Nigel Williams-Goss
Report cards mattered as much as box scores to him — a 4.0 student at Findlay Prep, where his teams went 124–8 with two national championships, and later an Academic All-American at Washington with a 3.74 GPA while leading the Huskies in scoring and assists as a sophomore. He transferred to Gonzaga in 2015, and Utah drafted the poised point guard 55th overall in 2017.
Jeff Withey
Shot-blocking made his name at Kansas — his 31 rejections in the 2012 NCAA tournament broke Joakim Noah's record, and he was twice Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year before sharing national defensive player honors in 2013. Drafted 39th, he spent two seasons in New Orleans and then two in Utah, where he once paired 11 points with a career-high 12 rebounds as a starter.
Nate Wolters
South Dakota State had never seen anything like him — a 2013 All-American who carried the Jackrabbits to two NCAA tournaments and passed 2,000 career points. Drafted 38th overall and traded twice by the next day, Wolters landed in Milwaukee, where a roster thinned by injuries pressed him into 30 minutes in his NBA debut. He later signed a two-way contract with the Jazz in September 2017, appearing in five games before being waived that December.
Howard Wood
East Hampton High School won a New York state championship with Wood in 1977, and at Tennessee he teamed with future pros Reggie Johnson and Dale Ellis, earning first-team All-SEC honors as a senior and helping the Volunteers to their first Sweet Sixteen in 1981. The Utah Jazz drafted the 6-foot-7 power forward in the second round that year.
Sam Worthen
New York playground royalty, named one of ESPN's Elite 24 Rucker Park legends, Worthen became an All-American point guard at Marquette. The Bulls drafted him in the second round in 1980, and his two NBA seasons ended with the Utah Jazz in 1981-82.
Luther Wright
A 7-foot-2 center from Jersey City, Wright played for Bob Hurley at St. Anthony and two seasons at Seton Hall before the Jazz made him the 18th pick of the 1993 draft. He arrived in Utah out of shape at 325 pounds, on a roster already stocked with Mark Eaton and Felton Spencer, and his NBA career lasted 15 games.
Justin Wright-Foreman
Hofstra's coach spotted him scoring 48 points in a Las Vegas tournament game and offered him a scholarship — years later Wright-Foreman tied Hofstra's single-game record with another 48 against William and Mary. Twice the Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year, the Queens guard was drafted 53rd by Utah in 2019 and signed a two-way contract.
Ömer Yurtseven
Born in Tashkent to Turkish parents, Yurtseven was playing EuroLeague minutes for Fenerbahçe as a teenager and became, at 17, the youngest player at the time to appear in an NBA preseason game. He left for college at NC State and Georgetown, went undrafted, and earned his way onto the Miami team that reached the 2023 NBA Finals. Utah signed the center to a two-year deal in July 2023 and waived him after one season.