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1991–92 Utah Jazz season

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The 1991–92 NBA season was the 18th season for the Utah Jazz in the National Basketball Association, and their 13th season in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1] It was also their first season playing at the Delta Center.[2][3] The Jazz had the 21st overall pick in the 1991 NBA draft, and selected point guard Eric Murdock out of Providence College.[4][5][6][7] The team played around .500 basketball with a 7–6 start to the regular season. In late November, the Jazz traded their long-time forward, and sixth man Thurl Bailey to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for Tyrone Corbin.[8][9][10]

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In December, during a home game against the Detroit Pistons, Karl Malone committed a flagrant foul on Isiah Thomas, in which Malone hit Thomas's forehead with his elbow, and Thomas had to receive 40 stitches; Malone was suspended for one game.[11][12][13] The Jazz held a 31–18 record at the All-Star break,[14] and won their final seven games of the season, finishing in first place in the Midwest Division with a 55–27 record, and earning the second seed in the Western Conference.[15] The team qualified for their ninth consecutive trip to the NBA playoffs.[16]

Malone averaged 28.0 points, 11.2 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game, and was named to the All-NBA First Team, and finished in fourth place in Most Valuable Player voting,[17][18] while Jeff Malone finished second on the team in scoring averaging 20.2 points per game, and John Stockton provided the team with 15.8 points, 13.7 assists and 3.0 steals per game, leading the league in assists for the fifth consecutive season, as he was named to the All-NBA Second Team, and to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team. In addition, Blue Edwards contributed 12.6 points per game, while off the bench, Corbin played a sixth man role, averaging 9.0 points and 5.8 rebounds per game in 69 games with the Jazz after the trade, Mike Brown provided with 7.7 points and 5.8 rebounds per game, undrafted rookie small forward David Benoit contributed 5.6 points and 3.8 rebounds per game, and starting center Mark Eaton averaged 3.3 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game.[19] Malone and Stockton were both selected for the 1992 NBA All-Star Game in Orlando, Florida.[20][21][22][23]

In the Western Conference First Round of the 1992 NBA playoffs, the Jazz defeated the Los Angeles Clippers in five games.[24][25][26] Then in the Western Conference Semi-finals, they defeated the 6th-seeded Seattle SuperSonics in five games.[27][28][29][30] However, the Jazz would lose to Clyde Drexler and the top-seeded Portland Trail Blazers, four games to two in the Western Conference Finals.[31][32][33][34] The Trail Blazers would lose in six games to the defending NBA champion Chicago Bulls in the 1992 NBA Finals.[35][36][37][38]

Following the season, Edwards and Murdock were both traded to the Milwaukee Bucks.[39][40][41]

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 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game

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