Lee Benson, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Maybe it was because he’d been a basketball junkie from the time he could walk and he didn’t figure anything associated with a game he played could be considered work.
Maybe it was because it was 1986 and the Utah Jazz, seven years into their Utah tenure, were holding on by their financial fingernails.
Maybe the fact that the Jazz’s sales department consisted of exactly one full-time employee had something to do with it.
Whatever it was, when Utah’s entry in the National Basketball Association offered Mike Snarr a job selling sponsorships, he was skeptical.