Utah Jazz

Also known as New Orleans Jazz

American professional basketball team

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The Utah Jazz is an American professional basketball team that competes in the NBA (National Basketball Association). The team matters to fans and the community because it represents Utah in one of the world's premier sports leagues and provides entertainment through competitive professional basketball.

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Official website: www.nba.com/jazz

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Commons category: Utah Jazz
inception: 1974-00-00
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The Utah Jazz are an American professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City. The Jazz compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference. Since the 1991–92 season, the team has played its home games at the Delta Center, an arena they share with the Utah Mammoth of the National Hockey League (NHL). The franchise began as an expansion team in the 1974–75 season as the New Orleans Jazz, paying homage to New Orleans as the origin and cultural center of the jazz music genre. The Jazz relocated from New Orleans to Salt Lake City on June 8, 1979.

The Jazz were one of the least successful teams in the league in their early years as an expansion team. Although 10 seasons elapsed before the Jazz qualified for their first playoff appearance in 1984, they did not miss the playoffs again until 2004.