The five all-time leaders for the Utah Jazz

The Utah Jazz have played 31 playoff games since their franchise entered the league. However, they have never won a championship. Some of their best chances for a title came in the late 1990s, but they couldn’t get past Michael Jordan and the Bulls. Let’s take a look at their history and introduce the top five goalscorers of all time.

Talk about a consistency model. Malone played 18 seasons with the Jazz before ending his career with one season with the Lakers. With the Jazz, he averaged 25.4 points per game. Outside of the strike-shortened 1998-99 season, Malone never played fewer than 80 games per season for the Jazz. He also played an average of 37 minutes per game. During his career, he won two MVP awards and finished in the top five in MVP voting nine times.

2. John Stockton, 19,711 points

Stockton is best known for his passing ability, which has seen him average 10.5 assists per game in his career. However, his longevity and excellent health also helped him rise to second place on the Jazz’s all-time scoring list. Stockton was also an efficient scorer, shooting 51.5% from the field for his career. He also shot 38.4% from behind the arc but averaged just 1.5 three-point attempts per game.

3. Adrian Dantley, 13,635 points

Dantley played for seven different teams during his tenure in the league. He spent most of his time with the Jazz, for whom he played for seven seasons. In four of those seasons, he averaged at least 30.3 points per game. In none of his seasons with the Jazz did he average less than 26.6 points per game. Dantley was also efficient, shooting 56.2% from the field for the Jazz. His point total would have been higher had he not been limited to 22 games in the 1982–83 season and 55 games in the 1984–85 season.

4. Darrell Griffith, 12,391 points

Griffith played his entire career for the Jazz. He won the Rookie of the Year award in 1980-81, averaging 20.6 points per game. He then averaged at least 19.8 points in each of the next four seasons. Coming into the league, he only missed a total of 12 games in his first five seasons. He then had to sit out the entire 1985/86 season with a foot injury and was never able to return to the type of player he was at the beginning of his career. In the 1986/87 season he averaged 15.0 points, but then saw his points decline further. In his final season in the league, he averaged 5.7 points and played just 13 minutes per game.

Bailey spent ten seasons with the Jazz and was one of their premier scoring options off the bench. He averaged 19.6 points per game during the 1987-88 season and averaged 19.5 points per game the following season. During his entire tenure with the team, he averaged 14.0 points per game and shot 47.4% from the field.