Utah Jazz: 'Hot Rod' Hundley ready to go quiet

He heads toward the rafters, zippered briefcase in hand.

In it is the hand-made scoresheet he personally fills out before each game, the format so old it has room to list only two referees — and the NBA began using three back in the late 1980s.

He's relied on it since he got his start in broadcasting, and he even got ex-partner Chick Hearn — the late, legendary Los Angeles Lakers play-by-play man — to use one as well.

It's not old-fashioned paperwork, though, that's pushing him to part in a world of blogs and Twitter.

Rather, the long journey up is the bane of his existence — and the chief reason 74-year-old Hot Rod Hundley figures that, after 35 years as broadcast voice of the then New Orleans and now Utah Jazz, he's about ready to call it a career.

"Radio," a rather melancholy Hundley said, "is not what I thought it would be."