This high-interest title summarizes the history of the Utah Jazz professional basketball team, highlighting memorable events and noteworthy players such as John Stockton.
Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team's origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Utah Jazz professional basketball team's history from its 1974 founding in New Orleans, Louisiana, to today, spotlighting memorable players and events.
Utah Jazz is a beginner's history of the NBA's Utah Jazz. Beginning with the franchise's early years, readers will experience the team's highest and lowest moments, meet the team's best players and managers, and gain the inside track on information that completes the team's story. Mini-biographies, fun facts, anecdotes, fantastic quotes, and sidebars combine with full-color, action-packed photographs to round out the story of the Jazz, allowing your readers Inside the NBA! SportsZone is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Middle grade basketball fans are introduced to the extraordinary history of NBA's Utah Jazz with a photo-laden narrative of their greatest successes and losses.
Join the Utah Jazz On the Hardwood in this officially licensed NBA team book. From completely different backgrounds and upbringings, John Stockton and Karl Malone became teammates. The two didn?t just succeed, they became one of the greatest duos in NBA history, elevating basketball in Salt Lake City to a level that wasn?t thought possible. On the Hardwood: Utah Jazz details this unique partnership, a playmaker named Pistol, the current Jazz team and their pursuit of the city?s first championship.
"This high-interest title summarizes the history of the Utah Jazz professional basketball team, highlighting memorable events and noteworthy players such as John Stockton"--
Each NBA Teams title explores a National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball team. Readers will learn about a team's history, uniforms, accomplishments, statistics, modern players players, coaches, and more. Exciting photos and fascinating facts will help engage even reluctant readers as they learn about their favorite team.