![]() It was time to move, thought Sam Bettistone and Larry Hatfield of Santa Barbara, who were now the co-owners of the team. The next season the Jazz won only 26 games, which included a 4–37 record but even more crippling for the franchise was the mammoth rent. ![]() It was later revealed that Lucy Harris was pregnant, prompting quips the Jazz had actually drafted the rights to her firstborn. That was also the year Maravich wrecked his right knee, Louisiana businessman Andrew Martin sold his 20 percent of the club to the Californians, and the Jazz drafted Lucy Harris of Delta State, the first woman ever picked in the NBA draft. 500 ball even though they did win 39 games in 1977–78. In their five years in New Orleans, the Jazz never played. The Jazz won only 23 games in 1974–75 seasons. The Jazz lost their first eleven games, and coach Scotty Robertson was fired four games later. State hero Pete Maravich, college basketball’s all-time leading scorer at LSU, was acquired for a high price from Atlanta and the fledgling Jazz were ready for the inaugural season. The colors of the Mardi Gras-purple, green and gold-were chosen as the Jazz colors. In 1974 a nine-man group, mainly Californians, spent $6.15 million to form the expansion New Orleans Jazz, the eighteenth franchise in the National Basketball Association. After the move from New Orleans in 1979, the Utah Jazz spent six years living on the edge, a customary position when the club was in New Orleans, where the story begins. But more than a century later he could have. ![]() Although the story of Jazz basketball is a tale of two cities-Salt Lake City and New Orleans-Charles Dickens did not have the Jazz in mind when he wrote of the best of times, the worst of times. ![]()
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