Remembering Larry H Miller

The thing that will always stand out to me about LHM was his passion. Whether it was for his businesses, his charities, the Jazz, or his family, you know that LHM invested 100% of his energy into whatever he did.

I said almost exactly this in a Twitter last night. Such passion was his rarest and most valuable characteristic.

some others have said that they feel like they lost a member of their own family, and i’m the same. when john and karl retired and i cried, larry did too. when the jazz made me want to bang my head against the wall, larry yelled at them for me. when i wanted to slap carlos upside the head, larry’s response to [boozer’s] comments made me feel better and vindicated for feeling the way i did. whatever i was going through with the jazz, i always felt like larry was too and that’s possibly why i feel as much as i do right now. who else had an owner like us?

seeing the way he built his empire and doing what he did to keep the jazz in slc—just fighting, fighting all the time—i was sure he was going to make it through and win the battle against illness.

apart from the jersey retiring and his courtside seat remaining his, i’d like to see the arena named after lhm (once the energysolutions contract expires). after all, larry built it.

I’m from Mavs Moneyball. During the Dallas v Utah game a few weeks back, I made a number of comments, I made a number of poor-taste comments relating to Mormons that came as a result of a mix of things, which included being slightly inebriated, pissed that the Mavs were playing poorly and a bias which had developed a number of years ago when I came across a group of Mormons in Sydney preaching some points that I thought as racist.

Not long afterwards, Basketball John happened to pop in and denounced it as classless. Now with the passing of Larry Miller, I thought it would be an appropriate time to come here and apologize.

Although Miller followed religious beliefs I do not quite agree with, that is moot now in death. Like many people in Utah will, I will mourn for him. It’s a shame that such a debilitating disease was what claimed him in the end.

In all respects, there is no doubt that Larry Miller was a great, dedicated owner. He built a franchise which has been constantly successful for the last couple of decades and whom employs a coach whom I greatly admire. John Stockton will probably remain my favorite player ever, no matter who puts on a uniform for the Mavericks in the near or distant future.

RIP, Larry H. Miller and may the next life be good to you.

As for all you Jazz fans, good luck with the rest of your season.

But I think the contribution of Larry Miller is too great to ignore. Not once has the Jazz been mentioned of moving, despite playing in a small market that was from it’s inception the smallest in the NBA. He made it work.

There is too much to say about Larry Miller, that as I a Kings fan don’t really know, but the respect he garners says a lot about him and his respective approach. (However, as a Kings fan, I hope Gavin, and Joe especially, doesn’t believe that emulating Larry Miller. You know the sayings about someone who is one of a kind? That’s definitely true in Miller’s case.)

RIP Larry H Miller