Remembering former Utah Jazz coach Frank Layden
You’re locked on to Hans Soulson and Scotty Chin Ch. That’s right. Yeah. On 975, the KSL Sports Zone. Hands and Scotty 975 the KSL Sports Zone. By the way, tough story came out yesterday. Uh the news broke. Uh Frank Leighton passing away at the age of 93. 93 years old. The legend of Frank. Yeah. legend laden. He’s an incredible dude. Oh, you know, absolutely. All the different videos that have come out. And the thing is is you’ll never know. I don’t I don’t know if Barbara ever kept track or if he ever kept track of how many different charity events he was a part of. up until he was hospitalized and and immobilized. He would attend every charity event that anybody asked. Yeah. I don’t know if that man ever said no in his entire life. I don’t think he did. And which shows the heart of Barbara. Yeah. and she’d show up with the, you know, those big glasses of hers and her huge personality and she’d make sure that Frank’s got everything that he needs to be comfortable and it’ll be a lasting memory of mine. I think it’s really cool to see on Twitter, everybody’s got a picture or a story of Frank Clayton. Everybody does. Why? Because he would talk to everybody and treat everybody equally. I mean, it’s just it’s amazing. Like you can’t you can’t hop on X right now and not have somebody be like here’s a picture of me and Frank Leaden and he did this for my family and and he did this for my kids or something along those lines. I mean he’s got everybody’s got a story. You and I probably host whatever you know 15 events every year. Like you’re hosting one tomorrow, aren’t you? Yeah. Yeah. Where you get up, you hit the mic and you always got the notes. I’d say 70% of the events I’ve hosted in my time here in the state of Utah, 70% maybe 80% in the notes. It’s please acknowledge, please recognize and it’s not on his request. It’s the event just knows, okay, Frank’s there. Please recognize former Jazz head coach and legend Frank Leaden here in attendance. And it’s like this guy’s at every event. And not only is he at every event, he’s present. Oh, yeah. And like Scotty mentioned, you’re seeing so many pictures of him because he’d go hug anybody, talk to anybody. I was on the phone with Kevin White last night and uh talking about a bunch of stuff and Kevin’s like, “Oh man, I’m just brokenhearted over the Frank Leaden and he went on this story about cuz he was the director of the Top of the Mountains Bowl, that uh Junior College bowl game.” And uh he goes, “Two years in a row we’d have our big banquet and Frank Leighton be the one to show up and be the keynote speaker.” said he put on a jock strap and wrote it over the top of his head and said, “I’m be an athletic supporter.” Did that. The last event uh I saw him at was it was Ron McBride’s birthday and it was the yo man, I love you. What is that? Yeah. Yeah. Yo uh I love you man. I love you man. Yeah event. And um I co-hosted that. And I brought Frank up and Frank pulls out this oversized jock and I’m like oh here we go. And he always had some, you know, funny gag or some way to make a crowd laugh because the last thing Frank wanted to do was be boring. Yeah. And just be another voice and just, you know, have people be like, “All right, get this guy off the stage.” Every time Frank took the mic or stepped in front of you, he had something funny. He had some energy. He had a different angle. Like you you you never wanted to get away from Frank. Like there are people that talk that you’re like, I just got to get away from this guy. You never wanted to leave Frank’s side. You just wanted to be by him and like hear his stories and he’d make you laugh with that crazy accent that he’d throw at you. But Frank was he was so good to you and I. Oh, the best. The absolute best. Uh and again, uh Phil Johnson, longtime Utah Jazz assistant coach, uh will be joining us coming up today at 205 and he’ll share some, I’m sure, incredible Frank Leaden stories. 975, the KSL Sports Zone.
• Remembering former Utah Jazz coach Frank Layden
