Salt Lake City has an extraordinary love for the Jazz team.
In the 1980s, they almost lost the Jazz, when the team had already decided to move to Las Vegas.
If this relocation had materialized, the Jazz team might have become a completely different team.
After all, the difference between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas is just too great.
NBA fans find it hard to imagine how Karl Malone and John Stockton would continue to play for the Las Vegas Jazz.
Perhaps Stockton would have been traded after the Jazz lost in the first round to the Warriors, to get Tim Hardaway, and Malone would be sent to an Eastern team after losing to the Suns in the first round, in exchange for draft picks to get Larry Johnson from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the 1991 draft.
Larry Miller saved Salt Lake City's ownership of the Jazz, but what truly saved them was the fans' passionate love for the Jazz team and basketball.
