Utah into an area. It helped that they drafted Carl Malone and John Stockton.

And Utah went from insignificant to a perennial power. He later became a GM.

Anyhow, I had no idea if Frank Layden was still alive, to be honest with you.

But he passed away at the age of 93.

Just made me sad. He used to be in the bloopers videos on, you know, how the NFL and baseball would send out

bloopers videos.

The NBA did too.

And he was funny.

And he would wear these suits and he was gigantic.

Everybody else was like dressed to the nines, looking sharp as hell, you know,

dignified.

Pat Riley slicked back here.

And there's old Frank Layden glasses slovenly walking around the sidelines.

Horatious. And he would make fun of himself. It was great.

Rest of peace. Frankladen. Go back and look up Frankladen. You'll laugh.

You're like, well, that is different. You don't see that. You're used to seeing NBA coaches look sharp, look really like spiffy.

Well, I don't know.

I certainly not all of them.

He's wearing jackets and ties.

Oh, no, he dressed.

It's just that the game would get going and he would get emotive and then all

a sudden the shirt would be out and you coupled it with the weight and you're just like, oh, Frank, come on, buddy.

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