July is a crazy month in Utah Jazz land. With an excess number of players past and present celebrating birthdays this month, it almost feels as if Jazz Nation itself ages as a collective every time the month rolls around.
In the last few weeks alone, current Jazzmen Derrick Favors, Alec Burks and Dante Exum each had a birthday. So too did Jazz legend Antoine Carr, the big “Brown Bear” Mike Brown, John Crotty and Stephen Howard–who joined the team together as rookies in 1992–and Calbert Cheaney.