SALT LAKE CITY — Roughly an hour ahead of the Utah Jazz’s tipoff against the Sacramento Kings, former Jazzman Thurl Bailey zeroed in on a stack of notes at the scorer’s table next to play-by-play announcer Craig Bolerjack on Friday night.
Although Big T’s professional basketball career ended two decades ago, the player-turned-analyst stays engrossed in the game through his current role on the AT&T SportsNet television broadcast team.
However, even at 57-years-old, those memories of competing on the hardwood aren’t close to fading from his mind.
Especially, on the 35-year anniversary of witnessing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar become the NBA’s all-time scoring leader on April 5, 1984 against the Jazz.