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The 1996-97 Utah Jazz are champions after all. Here’s how — and what — that legendary team won

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz couldn’t beat the Chicago Bulls for an NBA championship in the late 1990s as fans are painfully being reminded weekly with the airing of Michael Jordan’s documentary “The Last Dance.”

But the 1996-97 Jazz did just receive a consolation prize.

Utah’s first NBA Finals team has been recognized as the best NBA team to not win a championship by SBNation.com.

“Congratulations, John Stockton and Karl Malone. You (kinda) have a ring now!” Basketball writer Mike Prada wrote in the final article of a two-week-long series.