SALT LAKE CITY — Larry H. Miller is sitting, his arms folded like they so often were in interviews, during this old sit-down from the late 1990s. There was the man who was tasked with saving professional basketball from leaving his home state. He’s asked that when they eventually write the epitaph of Miller’s stewardship of the Utah Jazz, what would he want it to say?
How would he want to be remembered? After all, he was the ultimate hands-on owner who went through pregame drills with Jazz players, who barked at officials and stormed up and down the sidelines when a call was, at least in his mind, subpar. The answer was easy because he’d been asked that same question earlier that decade when Utah’s new arena, then the Delta Center, was finally built.
As soon as he starts explaining his dream hypothetical scenario, one 50 years into the future, a grandfather walking by the arena with his grandson, who asks him who Larry H. Miller was,…
