Where does this story even begin? The D-Will / C-Booz years? The Stockton and Malone years? I honestly don’t know. But for the longest time the Utah Jazz seemed to be a team that was forced to lean heavily on their starters. That’s really a no brainer when two of your starters are among the best players at their respective positions. During the reign on John Stockton and Karl Malone the Jazz did exactly that. And could because those two guys never got injured.
That wasn’t the case when the team was relying upon Deron Williams, Andrei Kirilenko, Carlos Boozer, and Mehmet Okur.