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Show d TIIE SAMPLER !Hlt from IHlypdlB Story by Steven Hoover In 1954 o sharp-shootikid by the name of Rod arrived at the Hundley, University of West Virginia campus. ng . Bom and raised in Charleston, Hundley became a favorite of the Mountaineer fans and press. Because of his popularity during that freshman year he picked 't up the nickname Hot Rod". NOW, 27 years later, he is still known as Hot Rod. But instead of playing on the court he is seeing the game from the broadcast booth. Hundley is currently the voice of the Utah Jazz. He has licen with them since the franchise first came into the National Basketball Association seven years ago as the New Orleans Jazz. After his four years at U WV he was drafted by the Lk Aneeles lakers where he nlaved for six years. great While a senior at UWV he played with all-tifreshman. Later a was at the who time Jerry West, thev were teammates on the Lakers together. HOT ROD" took a roundabout way getting into broadcasting. fflhi Hundley sees no change for himself in the near future because he enjoys what hes doing now. I will always enjoy doing radio and television sports. Ive been with basketball all my life as a player and now with broadcasting. IF THEY CAN come up with one of those two, to go along with Griffith and Dantley, wed have a The present owner of the Jazz was a good friend of mine, and when he got his franchise in New Orleans he gave me the job with them, he said. And when they moved here I just came along. pretty good ball club, because we have some pretty good young players with Carl Nicks and Ricky Green. They have to realize that you Cant change Hundley has been broadcasting NBA games for 14 years now. In all the years he has been associated with basketball he feels that Jerry West and Oscar Roliertson were the two best guards to ever play the game. HE STILL makes his home in Phoenix but lives here during the winter in a condominium. He has three daughters. One goes to the University of Utah and the other two are still in Phoenix.- - everything overnight and not to trade draft picks. Thats what hurt them while they were in New Orleans. When you talk about basketball fans many of the names that come up are Indiana or North Carolina but he feels that the Utah fans are just as good. THE FAN support is very good, particularly on the college level. BYU and the University of Utah sells out all the time. The old Utah Stars did very well here also. They want a franchise here, but like any other city you have to win before you get the support. FROM OCTOBER to April he is constantly on he the go covering the Jazz. During the does public relations work for them and also does the 4:30 p.m. sports for KSL radio. off-seas-on . I guess I do things backwards, he said. I spend the winters here and part of the summer in Phoenix. It really doesnt matter where he works and lives because the name Hot Rod Hundley and basketball will always be synonymous. Although the Jazz haven't been contenders since moving to Salt Lake ther have been a few bright spots with his year's team. They sport the leagues leading scorer in Adrian Dantley who averaged over 30 points per game and Rookie of the Year Darrell Griffith. V' Potentially, Griffith has enough talent to be one of the greatest. He leaps well, shoots well, but needs to have more of a head for the game, he said. "After retiring from the Lakers I went back east to North Carolina to work in public relations for Converse," he said. "I was with them for about lf years. During my last year with 4 AFTER GETTING off to a quick 12-- 6 start the Jazz began to struggle and finished the season at three-and-a-ha- them they transferred me back to Southern California which put me back in the Los Angeles area. The Lakers offered me a job of doing color for 28-5- 4. ' . . a their radio and television broadcasts. The big reason the Jazz fell so low was that they were all pretty new to playing with each other and it is really tough to win on the road in this league, he It seemed like the right thing to do so I took the job with the Lakers, he adds. said. AFTER TWO vears with the Lakers, he took a step up careerwise by becoming a broadcaster with Phoenix Suns. Then, after five the newiv-fonne- d vears with the Suns he made another move. He feels that if the Jazz are to make a run at the playoffs next year, they need a big center or power forward, or both. broadcasting with Sampler journalist, Sp4 Hot Rod Hundley, the voice of the. 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