JERRY SLOAN WITH UTAH JAZZ PICK-AND-ROLL GREATS, JOHN STOCKTON AND KARL MALONE
Back when I enjoyed NBA. I seemed to stop enjoying the sport after the millennium.
I wanted Malone and Stockton to get that ring. I loved watching them play even though I am an Eastern Conference guy and Sixers fan.
I saw Jerry Sloan play many, many times for my Chicago Bulls. One of my favorites. His mentor was Bulls’ coach Dick Motta, another Utah connection.
RIP.
Sloan is best measured by the cluster of men who would die for him. That would include Hall of Famers Stockton and Malone, but also his right hand assistant Phil Johnson and 7’4” Jazz center/restaurant owner Mark Eaton. Athletes either clung to Sloan in fierce loyalty or fled from him.