SALT LAKE CITY — The year was 1992.
Jae Crowder wasn’t quite 2 years old but basketball was already becoming his obsession.
Every night before he went to bed, Jae had a routine with his father, Corey, who was a member of the Utah Jazz at the time.
It would go something like this:
“He would line up like he was hiding and I would have to say ‘No. 15 Corey Crowder’ and he’d run back and forth like he was in a layup line and that’s a true story,” Corey recalled. “He did that every single night when he was 1 years old.