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Utah Jazz big question: What were your favorite memories from the 1996-97 season?

Editor's note: Throughout this season, the Deseret News' top contributing Jazz analysts will be tackling the big questions surrounding the Jazz.

Today the Utah Jazz will honor the 1997 NBA Finals team. What are your favorite memories from that season?

Garrett Faylor: I had moved from California a couple years before. We worshipped Michael Jordan there, at least where I was from. When the 1997 Finals came around, I was at a youth conference at BYU. The room was packed with white teenage boys with botched bowl haircuts, saying things like fetch and frick. We were all huddled around a big-screen TV watching one game in the series.