The rebuilt Utah Jazz will enter 2019-20 with as good a chance of winning a championship as any season in the last two decades. What better time, then, for the organization to hark back to its prior era of annual title contention?

The Jazz released a slick new video on Wednesday featuring stars of past and present – Donovan Mitchell, John Stockton, Rudy Gobert, Karl Malone, Mike Conley, and Jeff Hornacek among them – that unveiled their Nike Classic Edition uniforms for this season, throwbacks famously worn in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Utah was a Western Conference power for the majority of its time wearing the mountain-inspired jersey from 1996 to 2004.

Behind Malone, Stockton, and legendary coach Jerry Sloan, the Jazz met Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in both the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals, falling in six games on both occasions. The most famous moment in those uniforms came in Game 6 against the star-laden Houston Rockets during the 1997 Western Conference Finals, though, when Stockton punched his team's ticket to play for a championship for the first time ever by draining a buzzer-beating, series-winning three-pointer over Charles Barkley.

Utah is one of many teams with realistic championship aspirations this season after the dissolution of the juggernaut Golden State Warriors. The team traded for star floor general Mike Conley in late June, a long-awaited upgrade at point guard, and addressed its need for additional offensive firepower by signing Bojan Bogdanovic in free agency. They pair with Mitchell, Gobert, and stalwart wing Joe Ingles to give the Jazz their most talented team in recent memory – one poised to be the franchise's best since Stockton and Malone were wearing purple.