1905.

Utah State School for the Deaf basketball team

1906.

LDS University men's basketball team.

1907.

LDS University men's basketball team.

1907.

Gordon Acadmeny girls basketball team.

circa 1908.

Girls playing outside at Rowland Hall school. Notice the lack of a backboard.

1909.

University of Utah men's basketball team

1909.

LDS University men's basketball team.

1909.

Lowell High School girls team

1909.

Henager business college team. J.C. Heneaar and and William McIntyre photographed.

1910.

West High School Girls basketball team. Banner says Salt Lake High.

1910.

Granite High men's basketball team, with one of the first African-American high school basketball players.

1910


Night and day views of the original Salt Palace. Originally built in 1899 the building hosted some of the very first basketball games in Salt Lake City. On August 29, 1910 it burned to the ground.

1911.

A ball game outside at what is now likely Liberty Park.

circa 1912.

Salt Lake City Fire Department's basketball team.

1913.

Deseret Basketball team

1916

A basketball team photo, possibly Southern Utah University.

1916

University of Utah Men's Basketball Team
1935.

Murray High school

1936.

Goodyear Service Basketball team. Most likely a semi-pro team which would have faced local barnstomers.

1937

Utah at BYU. The Utes won 41-40.

circa 1943.

A game between Civillian Conservation Corps during what looks like World War II. Location could be Fort Douglas.

1945.
Uptown Threatre with a banner of the 1944 NCAA champion Utah Utes. Threatre stood where ZCMI mall once was.

1948

Brigham Young High School Men's team
1949.

University of Utah coach Vadal Peterson and guard Arnie Ferrin.

1950.

Feild house at the University of Utah during a basketball game.

1966.

A Brigham Young High School player helps another player out
1969.

The Salt Palace II, the original home of the Utah Star from 1970-75 and the Utah Jazz from 1979-91. The Stars won Utah's first professional sports championship in 1971 (Real Salt Lake won the next one in 2009). Game 7 of the ABA finals between the Stars and Kentucky Colonels set an ABA attendence record.

1971.

Utah Stars fans rush the court after the team wins the 1971 American Basketball Association Championship.

1971.

Bill Sharmin's 1971 Stars Championship ring.

1972.
Merv Jackson of the Utah Stars.

1974.

Moses Malone of the Utah Stars. Malone would go on to be one of the greatest NBA players of all-time winning 3 MVP awards.

circa 1974.

Moses Malone tries to block a shot of a Spirit of St Louis Player. After the Stars folded in 1975 the Spirits of St Louis were to move to Salt Lake and become the Utah Rockies. The move never happened because the ABA and NBA merged and the Spirits/Rockies got one of the greatest buyouts in history. To this day the owners still recieve TV revinue from the NBA.

circa 1980.

The side of the Salt Palace introducing a game between the Utah Jazz and Boston Celtics. The Jazz first moved to Salt Lake City in 1979.

Sometime in the 1980s

The Salt Palace, home for the Utah Jazz from 1979-1991. Jazz played their last game there in 1991.

1985.

Adrian Dantley was the Utah Jazz's first star.

1999.

Karl Malone makes a hook shot against the Warriors. Karl Malone and John Stockton teamed up to make the Utah Jazz a basketball dynasty in the 1990s.

2001.

John Stockton drives to the hoop for a layup over Shawn Bradley. Stockton is considered by many in Utah to be the greatest NBA point guard ever.