Former Jazz player Greg Ostertag: 'Tagged for a comeback

By Steve Hunt

For the Deseret News

Published: Wednesday, Jan. 4 2012 9:06 p.m. MST

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Greg Ostertag admits he was fed up with basketball. That was why in 2006, after his 11th season in the NBA, including 10 in Utah, he walked away at age 33.

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Cedar Hills, UT

the biggest dissapointment of an employee that I have ever seen. "wants to see if I still got it." Word to Ostertag...You never had it! Karl and John worked their tails off while you lazed around.

7:25 a.m. Jan. 5, 2012
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Jazzledazzle

Provo, UT

I think Ostertag was one of the more entertaining players this franchise has ever seen.

-False teeth
-Fights with Sloan
-Got slapped by Shaq
-Played in the movie "Eddie"
-Fumbled passes out of bounds, got More..

8:07 a.m. Jan. 5, 2012
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sandrus

cedar Hills/ utah, UT

I sat next to Greg Ostertag on a flight four years before he retired and we had a lengthy conversation, he kept complaining about Jerry Sloan and Karl Malone constantly criticizing him, I remember thinking that he just didn't get it. He didn't More..

4:29 a.m. Jan. 5, 2012
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