SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Jazz will retire Adrian Dantley's
No. 4 in April.
A ceremony to honor Dantley and raise No. 4 to the rafters is
scheduled for halftime of the team's April 11 game against the
Denver Nuggets.
Dantley is in his fourth season as an assistant coach with
Denver. He played for the Jazz from 1979-1986 and still holds the
team record for career points per game at 29.6 -- 4.2 more than Karl
Malone, whose No. 32 was the last number retired by the Jazz.
"Adrian was an important building block in the foundation of
the Jazz's playoff dynasty that lasted 20 years," Jazz owner Larry
Miller said in a release Thursday. "He is part of the legacy of
this franchise and we are pleased to retire his jersey."
Dantley ranks 18th on the league's all-time scoring list with
23,177 points during his 15-year NBA career.
He will be the seventh Jazz player to have his number retired,
joining Malone, John Stockton, Jeff Hornacek, Mark Eaton, Darrell
Griffith and Pete Maravich. The Jazz also retired No. 1 in honor of
former coach Frank Layden.