Utah Jazz Tickets

Utah Jazz

The Energy/Solutions Arena is home to incredible basketball with Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer running the patented pick and roll to perfection. Find Utah Jazz tickets at www.TheSeats.com, the best online resource for sporting events of any kind.

Utah Jazz 2008 Outlook

The Utah Jazz finished the 2007-08 season at the top of the Northwest Division standings with the number four seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Deron Williams had another great season as the point guard and Carlos Boozer did mih best imitation of Karl Malone. The two have quickly mastered the pick and roll that was a staple with Stockton and Malone. The Jazz have outstanding help with center Mehmet Okur and his outside shot, Andrei Kirilenko and his tenacious defense, and Matt Harping bringing hustle of the bench. The team looks set for the future as the only real weak spot is at the 2-guard position.

Utah Jazz Team History

The Utah Jazz joined the NBA as an expansion team in 1974 in New Orleans and immediately brought in “Pistol” Pete Maravich through the expansion draft. Maravich’s entertaining style of play could not bring the team out of the cellar and after five disastrous seasons the Jazz picked up and moved to Utah. The move did nothing more than bring a losing team to a new city.

It was not until Maravich had left and John Stockton and Karl Malone were drafted in back-to-back drafts (1984 and 1985) that the team finally made the playoffs. The team exited in either the first found or the Conference Semifinals throughout the rest of the ‘80s, but started making consistently deep playoff runs in the ‘90s.

Stockton and Malone ran the pick and roll with support from Jeff Hornacek, Byron Russell, Antoine Carr, and Greg Ostertag and made the conference finals five times in the decade. Twice (1997 and 1998) the Jazz made it to the finals, but the Chicago Bulls beat them in hard fought series that both went six games.

Though the Stockton/Malone connection remained intact until 2003, the Jazz’ time had passed and the club lost three first round series in a row. With Stockton retired and Malone elsewhere pursing a championship the Jazz struggled to even make the playoffs. The 2005 draft gave a team brimming with post players a quality point guard in Deron Williams. The Jazz forget an injury-ridden season in 2005-06 and made the playoffs with an impressive 51-31 year in 2006-07.