The Rocky Mountain Revue, until 2008, was one of the NBA's premier summer leagues, along with the Vegas Summer League and the Orlando Pro Summer League. It was hosted by the Utah Jazz. The league was launched as a community outreach campaign to encourage interest in the Jazz in the summer of 1984 under the direction of Jazz public relations staffers David Allred and Kim Turner, who oversaw the league through 2004. Initially the league operated as a three week, pro-am league in July with alumni players from Utah, BYU, Weber State and Utah State. In 1990, after sending a team to the California Summer League the previous summer, Scott Layden, then the Jazz's director of basketball operations, invited the Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns, and Sacramento Kings to join the league and moved t