Richard Anderson was a Utah Jazz superfan, renowned doctor, doting grandpa, and ‘absolutely a trip’
Some of those who knew the rubber chicken-swinging irritant best, and some who only met him a time or two, share their favorite stories of the man who was the closest thing the Jazz had to a celebrity fan.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dr. Richard Anderson cheers on the Utah Jazz vs the Chicago Bulls in game 5 of the NBA Finals, 1998.
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Eric is a West Valley City native and a graduate of Granger High School and the University of Utah who joined The Tribune in 2003. He hoards rescue cats and guinea pigs, reads historical fiction, watches British baking shows, and obsesses over 1980s hair-metal bands in his spare time.