Behind their decade-long supremacy were tired and worn-out knees and joints. The two titans played way before the load management era, which meant that they often suited up hurt. As long as they could ...
Jerry Sloan, the coach who led the Utah Jazz to back-to-back appearances in the NBA Finals, died Friday at the age of 78. The Jazz confirmed Sloan's death in a statement. "Jerry Sloan will always be ...
While many attribute the Utah Jazz’s rise to prominence in the Western Conference during the 1990s to head coach Jerry Sloan, the HoF coach himself credited John Stockton as the true cornerstone of ...
Sloan was a two-time All-Star as a player with the Chicago Bulls, led his alma mater, Evansville, to a pair of NCAA college division national championships and was an assistant coach on the 1996 U.S.
Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals did not turn out how the Utah Jazz wanted it to. Down 2-3 in the series, the Jazz had the chance to even the series at home and set up a winner-take-all Game 7, also on ...
— -- SALT LAKE CITY -- When Jerry Sloan was the head coach of the Utah Jazz, no one ever doubted who was in charge. "We all knew who was running the show. We respected him because he was the same ...