I usually don't blog about basketball, because I haven't really been keeping up with the game for awhile now, just updating myself with major news, trades and stuff. I will however make this an exception, because this, this is possibly the the biggest news to hit the league this year, bigger than Bosh and Lebron, bigger than Carmelo going to whatever team he's going to, and bigger than any team that could win the Championship this year (okay, fine, barring the Cavs).
Jerry Sloan, possibly one of the greatest coach ever in the NBA, has resigned from the Utah Jazz.
He's been with the Jazz for 23 years, the longest ever tenure in any of the four major sports (Basketball, football, baseball, soccer). This man is third in career wins behind Don Nelson and Lenny Wilkens.
Ever since I was a kid watching basketball, this man has been coaching the Jazz. Back when AK47 was all the hype in Utah, back when Utah was mediocre after Stockton and the mailman retired, he was there. He was there for the glory days, and he was there for the low point. It's not crazy to say that Jerry Sloan was the Utah Jazz. I, like many others, will miss him. It will be extremely to weird to watch a Jazz game and not seeing that calm old man plotting on the sidelines of the Jazz, but then again I hardly watch basketball anymore so maybe it won't be as bad. (lol)
The sad part about his fairytale-like career is the lack of a ring, just like Stockton and mailman, Sloan won't be resigning with a ring on his hand. A tragedy really, but c'est la vie.
Coach Sloan will be missed.
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