The white paint on the cement walls is fairly new and the Westminster College varsity lacrosse team occupies the locker room the Jazz once used for practices. Otherwise, the basement of Payne Gym looks just as it did 30 years ago, when the Jazz cut Billy Donovan a second time and sent him in another vocation.
“I love playing,” Donovan said that day in October 1988, “but I think sometimes you should let a dream go.”
That’s why Billy The Kid went from the campus on 1300 East in Salt Lake City to Wall Street in New York, only to discover after six months of working for an investment firm that he missed basketball.