Former Utah Jazz 7-foot-4 star center Mark Eaton, seated while Utah's Jeremy Evans leaps over him for a dunk in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest, has died at age 64, the Jazz announced Saturday AFP/RONALD MARTINEZLOS ANGELES: Mark Eaton, a two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year with the Utah Jazz, has died at age 64, the club announced Saturday .
Eaton was drafted by the Jazz in the fourth round of the 1982 NBA Draft. He played 11 league seasons, all with the Jazz, and was known as one of the game's top defensive big men.Eaton had been working as an auto mechanic in Arizona in 1977 when a community college basketball coach noticed him and talked him into enrolling at Cypress College. Eaton later transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles and learned the game under legendary coach John Wooden.
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