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1993–94 Utah Jazz season

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The 1993–94 NBA season was the 20th season for the Utah Jazz in the National Basketball Association, and their 15th season in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1] During the off-season, the Jazz signed free agent All-Star forward, and former University of Utah star Tom Chambers,[2][3][4] and acquired Felton Spencer from the Minnesota Timberwolves.[5][6][7]

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The Jazz played competitive basketball with a 22–8 start to the regular season, but then lost five of their next six games, and held a 31–18 record at the All-Star break.[8] At mid-season, the team traded Jeff Malone to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for All-Star guard Jeff Hornacek.[9][10][11] With the addition of Hornacek, the Jazz posted a ten-game winning streak between February and March, and won nine of their final eleven games, finishing in third place in the Midwest Division with a 53–29 record, and earning the fifth seed in the Western Conference;[12] the team made their eleventh consecutive trip to the NBA playoffs.[13]

Karl Malone averaged 25.2 points, 11.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game, and joined the list in all-time points scored topping the 19,000 point mark, while John Stockton averaged 15.1 points, 12.6 assists and 2.4 steals per game, and Chambers played a sixth man role off the bench, providing the team with 11.2 points and 4.1 rebounds per game. In addition, Spencer averaged 8.6 points and 8.3 rebounds per game, while Tyrone Corbin contributed 8.0 points and 1.2 steals per game, Jay Humphries contributed 7.5 points per game, David Benoit provided with 6.5 points and 4.7 rebounds per game, and second-round draft pick Bryon Russell contributed 5.0 points per game.[14]

Malone and Stockton were both named to the All-NBA First Team, and selected for the 1994 NBA All-Star Game in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[15][16][17] Malone also finished tied in seventh place in Most Valuable Player voting, while Stockton finished tied in eleventh place.[18][19]

In the Western Conference First Round of the 1994 NBA playoffs, the Jazz lost Game 1 to the 4th-seeded San Antonio Spurs on the road, 106–89,[20][21][22] but managed to win the next three games, thus the series.[23][24][25] In the Western Conference Semi-finals, they took a 3–0 series lead over the 8th-seeded Denver Nuggets.[26][27][28] However, the Jazz would lose the next three games to the Nuggets,[29][30][31] then finally win Game 7 and advance to the next round.[32][33][34] In the Western Conference Finals, they lost in five games to the Houston Rockets.[35][36][37] The Rockets would go on to defeat the New York Knicks in seven games in the 1994 NBA Finals, winning their first ever NBA championship.[38][39][40]

Following the season, Corbin was traded to the Atlanta Hawks,[41][42][43] and Mark Eaton retired after missing the entire regular season due to a back injury.[44][45]

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  • Center Mark Eaton was on the injured reserve list due to a back injury, and missed the entire regular season.
  • Rookie center Luther Wright was placed on the injured reverse list for treatment of attention deficit disorder; Wright only played just 15 games during the regular season.[46][47][48]
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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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