The sour notes luck of the Stockton/Malone/Sloan Jazz

How and why Utah never won an NBA title despite constantly contending for over a decade

By Cort Reynolds

For almost 15 years from the late 1980s through the early 2000s, the Utah Jazz were a legitimate NBA title contender every season. They made it to five Western Conference finals, two NBA Finals and posted the league's best record multiple times.

Yet des…