The Jazz dropped a new shirt which apparently was sold in their team store, but there was one glaring issue with it.
The gray shirt, which featured the Michael Jordan “Jumpman” logo was spread right across the front of it which appeared just above the team’s name, making it look like Jordan was dunking over it.
A Jazz fan posted to X on Saturday a photo of a gray shirt being sold in the Jazz team store that featured “Utah Jazz” in black letters with the black “Jumpman” silhouette above it.
The user, @lairddoman, tweeted: “Fire whoever allowed this design.”
Per Andy Larsen of the Salt Lake Tribune, a Jazz spokesperson confirmed that they pulled those shirts from the team store.
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As shared by The Salt Lake Tribune, the shirt is a league-wide design printed for a number of NBA teams, not just the Jazz.
The bad blood between Jazz fans and Jordan goes back to the late 1990s when he denied John Stockton, Karl Malone, and Jerry Sloan two titles in back-to-back years.
This shirt brings back terrible memories for the fan base that remember the 1996–97 and ’97–98 seasons in which Utah lost in the NBA Finals to Jordan and the Bulls both years.
The infamous “Flu Game” was in 1997 with Jordan scoring 38 points while battling the flu to lead the Bulls to a 90-88 win in Utah that gave Chicago a 3-2 series lead. Jordan later revealed it was actually food poisoning.
The Jazz have not returned to the NBA Finals Jordan denied them. They have only made the conference finals one time since.
