Ep. 189 - Randy Rigby - Former President Of NBA Basketball's Utah Jazz

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

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4.5 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Randy Rigby is the former President of the Utah Jazz basketball team as well as former President of the Larry H. Miller Sports and Entertainment Group. In the episode we talk about growing up in Northern Utah, how he developed his lifelong love of sports, his mission to Italy, gaining a strong testimony through an experience with his Mother, his time at BYU, meeting his wife, getting into business, dealing with the murder of his friend and business partner, going to work for the Utah Jazz, and eventually running the organization as the President. Randy has led an amazing life. He is so smart and yet so humble. You will love his story.

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
0:12.0	Day Saints.
0:13.0	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests
0:17.3	and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:26.2	Hello, friends. Welcome to episode 189 of the Latter-day Lives podcast. I'm your host, Sean Rupier.
0:32.5	Thank you so much for joining us again this week. We are so glad to have you here. Before we get into this week's
0:38.3	episode, I do want to thank a new reviewer on Apple Podcasts. Special thanks to Jill J4.1
0:45.7	for your wonderful review and your five-star rating. We really appreciate it. These reviews help us so
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0:56.5	We have an average on Apple podcasts of 4.7 out of 5 stars with 543 ratings.
1:03.9	And again, thank you so much to all of you who leave us reviews.
1:08.7	This week on the show, my guest, Randy Rigby, is the former president
1:12.5	of the Utah Jazz, as well as former president of the Larry H. Miller Sports and Entertainment
1:18.6	Group. And Randy is one of the most amazing guys I've ever talked to. He is brilliant and has
1:26.0	such wonderful life experience. Working with the NBA,
1:30.4	if you are a listener of any time of this show, you know that I am a mega fan of the NBA.
1:38.8	I absolutely love it. And you also know that I am a huge Laker fan. And funny enough, Randy knew coming into
1:47.0	the interview that I was a big Laker fan and gave me a hard time about it, rightfully so.
1:51.9	But what you may not know is living here in Utah and being an NBA fan, I love the Utah Jazz.
1:58.7	And years ago, Jason Bringhurst, who's a former guest on the show, he and I actually bought season tickets together.
2:06.8	So I'm a former season ticket holder.
2:08.6	I've been to tons of games up there.
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