Jerry Sloan was a Hall of Famer, the Original Bull and a Jazz legend, a dirt farmer and a folk hero, a hardnosed and sharp-elbowed defender, a coach who carved teams up with the pick-and-roll ...
If you missed part one of this two-part series, we covered the amazing impact coach Jerry Sloan had, not only on the Jazz teams he coached but on the city in which he coached them. Here in part two, ...
However, before all of them, only one player had his number retired by the storied franchise, Jerry Sloan. Born and raised in Illinois, Sloan stayed close to home for his schooling, going so far ...
The quote, of course, is from Jerry Sloan. And maybe he didn’t mean it in a larger sense at the time – the Jazz had been down 12 in the second half before mounting a comeback culminating in Stockton’s ...