SALT LAKE CITY — Welcome to the Delta Heart, the place Utah Jazz followers pay huge cash for the whole lot that comes with in the present day’s NBA expertise.
A really totally different expertise from this primary season at Salt Palace in 1979.
“The Jazz weren’t good,” Grant Harrison mentioned.
Harrison, whose first job was promoting season tickets for the Utah Stars, joined the Jazz that first 12 months. For a number of years, he and the staff’s small employees had the troublesome process of seating followers.
“I feel there have been about 11 folks within the entrance workplace,” mentioned David Allred, the Jazz’s former vp of public relations. “After which we had the gamers and the teaching employees, and that was it. So it was a really small group of individuals, and we needed to do the whole lot.”
Harrison mentioned these early days had been “a really tight time” and the group did not know “whether or not we had been going to open the doorways the next 12 months or not.” However a charismatic coach and a drive to generate income by turning into an innovator of the sport modified the way in which we seen the sport.
To see how Harrison and this small staff turned the whole lot round for the Jazz, watch the video above.
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