Top 10 Draft-night blunders in Utah Jazz history

5) The infamous Larry Knight pick (1979)

This list features several former first-round draft picks that failed to live up to the hype during their Jazz careers. However, their pick at No. 20 in the ’79 NBA Draft  — Loyola big man Larry Knight — didn’t even have a career, for the Jazz or any other NBA team.

According to former Jazz coach and GM Frank Layden, Knight was a hard worker and great rebounder in college. But when he showed up for training camp, it became clear he just couldn’t hack it, even for a Jazz team with little talent that languished in the league’s cellar.

Years later, Tom Nissalke, who coached the Jazz at the time, told the Deseret News that Knight was “so inept” offensively. He may have lacked some of the mental fortitude to succeed in the league as well.

Here’s Nissalke on severing ties with Knight —

"Nissalke remembers delivering the news that he’d been cut. “I just said, ‘You’re not gonna make the team,” Nissalke said. Knight’s reaction? “No reaction,” Nissalke said."

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