Ex-Utah Jazz coach Frank Layden dies
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Two things most outsiders, fans and admirers of all kinds of the former Jazz coach and team president, failed to realize and understand about Utah’s funny man: 1) He was three-fourths serious for every one-fourth humorous, and 2) Basketball wasn’t all that important to him. Living was.
Frank Layden, a Niagara graduate who became one of the Purple Eagles’ legendary coaches, and whose career catapulted him to working in the NBA and WNBA as a coach and as a general manager, has died at 93.