SALT LAKE CITY — As a sports fan, President Thomas S. Monson’s attendance at local football and basketball games was well known.
President Monson, the decade-long president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who died Tuesday night at the age of 90, visited several Utah Jazz games during his tenure as a General Authority.
His regular attendance prompted the Jazz to honor President Monson with a moment of silence prior to Wednesday night’s game against New Orleans.
Usually, he sat in a suite owned by good friend Jon Huntsman Sr. But one night in 2008, the president of the LDS Church ventured closer to the action.