Jerry Sloan
Hall of Fame Speech
The Life & Legacy of Jerry Sloan
Jerry Sloan Profile
One-on-One Interview
One-on-One Interview
Retirement Ceremony
Retirement Ceremony (Part 2)
Remembering the life and legacy of the legendary Utah Jazz coach
Jerry Sloan, the Hall of Fame coach who spent 23 seasons at the helm of the Utah Jazz, died in the early hours of Friday, May 22, 2020, at his Salt Lake home. He was 78. “Jerry Sloan will always be synonymous with the Utah Jazz,” the team said in a statement. “He will forever be a part of the Utah Jazz organization…
Rise & Grind: How Jerry Sloan Became An All-Time Great NBA Coach
Until the early ’80s, just one pro basketball game was televised nationally each week. The same with college contests. That seems impossible now, but it’s true: You had to wait until Saturday for the “Game of the Week,” and even then you only saw the marquee teams—UCLA or Notre Dame; the Celtics, Lakers or Knicks…
Jerry Sloan was ‘commonfolk’ — a kind, compassionate man
During my four decades as a sportswriter, I was never the full-time beat writer for the Utah Jazz, although I used to cover a lot of Jazz games back in the 1990s and beyond when Jerry Sloan was the coach. Of the hundreds of coaches I’ve interviewed over the years, I’ll admit a few were intimidating…
Utah Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan: Tragic Protagonist
They say that a boy never really becomes a man until his father dies. If this is true, Jerry Sloan became a man when he was four years old. This may have been the first major disappointment in his life, but it certainly wasn’t the last. Jerry was the first player to have his number retired by the Chicago Bulls…
Honoring Jerry Sloan, The Man Least Likely To Honor Jerry Sloan
Basketball is, and was, the most important thing in Jerry Sloan’s life. Except it wasn’t. When the banner is raised to the rafters tonight in his honor, bearing the number of his triumphs, his life’s work summed up in 1223 chunks of 48 minutes at a time, it will be a contradiction in terms…
Five Reasons Coach Jerry Sloan Has Continual Success
Jerry Sloan is About to Start His 22nd year at the helm of the Utah Jazz. Quite an accomplishment for any coach in any sport, but more amazing considering the current culture in sports of firing coaches at the first sign of trouble. With Sloan’s long tenure and success it has always been interesting to me…
Getting Straight
On Jan. 2, 1998, maybe the worst day of her life, Bobbye Sloan sat alone in a Salt Lake City hospital room, waiting for a surgeon to give her a new left breast. Well, she wasn’t actually alone. Her husband, Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan, was present, but even in the best of times he is not much of a talker…
