How to play the Utah Jazz franchise timeline

Each card is a moment from Jazz history, described in a line under its headline, and you're putting them in order by year. A starting card is placed for you with its year visible. Look at each new card and slot it before, after or between the cards already down. Correct placements reveal the year; incorrect ones still send the card to its true spot and use up one of your three lives.

The Jazz didn't begin in Utah, and the deck includes their time somewhere else. After the move, a long stretch of stability under one coach and one famous duo dominates the cards, with conference finals and Finals trips that are hard to separate. Career records and award cards from that era sit close together. The rest follow rebuilds around new stars and draft picks, and those blur easily.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Founded as the New Orleans Jazz An expansion team debuts and trades for hometown star Pete Maravich
Maravich scores 68 points Pistol Pete drops a career high on the Knicks
Relocated to Salt Lake City The Jazz move west and keep their name
Drafted Darrell Griffith Dr. Dunkenstein from Louisville is taken second overall
Drafted John Stockton A little-known Gonzaga guard is taken 16th overall
Drafted Karl Malone The Mailman from Louisiana Tech is taken 13th overall
Hired coach Jerry Sloan The coach who would stay 23 years takes over midseason
Delta Center opens The team moves into a new downtown arena
Reached the West finals behind Stockton and Malone Stockton and Malone lead a run that falls to Portland
Reached the conference finals again A deep playoff run ends against the Rockets
Stockton becomes the all-time assists leader The guard passes Magic Johnson atop the career list
Reached the NBA Finals; Malone wins MVP Stockton's buzzer-beater over Houston sends them to face the Bulls
Reached the NBA Finals again A rematch with Chicago ends in a second straight Finals loss
Malone wins his second MVP The Mailman earns another MVP in a lockout-shortened season
Stockton becomes the all-time steals leader The guard adds another career record to his assists mark
Stockton retires and Malone leaves The legendary duo splits as Malone signs with the Lakers
Signed Boozer and Okur Two free agents arrive to begin a new era
Drafted Deron Williams The Illinois point guard is taken third overall
Reached the West finals behind Williams and Boozer Williams and Boozer lead a run that falls to the Spurs
Drafted Gordon Hayward The Butler star who nearly won an NCAA title is taken ninth overall
Jerry Sloan abruptly resigns The long-tenured coach steps down and the team trades Deron Williams
Drafted Rudy Gobert The French center is acquired in a draft-night trade
Drafted Donovan Mitchell The Louisville guard arrives via a draft-night trade
Earned the NBA's best record A franchise-record 52 wins secures the top overall seed
Traded Gobert and Mitchell Both All-Stars are dealt to launch a rebuild