Carlos Boozer said there was no pressure replacing Karl Malone in Utah, because Andrei Kirilenko was already very good, he was joined in free agency by Mehmet Okur, and the team drafted Deron Williams a year later to form a talented core: “I had a blast here. I had a great time, man — this is one of the best teams I ever played on. We were like a family. Coach Sloan made sure of that, Larry Miller made sure of that. My kids would be running up and down the hallway, all our kids would be doing the same thing. We had a really unique team where everybody was an option.”
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Carlos Boozer: “There’s a couple …
Carlos Boozer: “There’s a couple coaches in my life that really stick out for me personally. Obviously my dad put the ball in my hands. My high school coach, who’s also here, really helped my development. Coach K gave me the foundation of the pro that I would be moving forward. And coach Sloan gave me a chance to be a star. He talked to me a lot — we talked on the phone maybe three or four times before I even got here, before I signed the contract. And then when I got here, [we had a conversation] where he felt like there were certain things I could bring to the table that no one else on the team had. So for me, he really took my career from here to here. I wouldn’t be sitting here now if it wasn’t for coach Sloan.”
Gregg Popovich, Steve Kerr among 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History
NBA PR: The NBA today unveiled the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History as part of the continuing celebration of the league’s 75th Anniversary Season. The list was selected by a panel of 43 current & former NBA head coaches in collaboration with the National Basketball Coaches Association.
Chicago Bulls all-time roster: See which legends made the cut
In honor of the NBA’s 75th anniversary, we present the best rosters in Bulls history.
As part of celebrating their 75th anniversary, the NBA is releasing a list of the greatest 75 players of all-time, which they’re calling NBA 75.
In honor of NBA 75, we have put together a similar list — the Chicago Bulls all-time roster. The roster is made up of the most important 15 players and three coaches in Bulls history, starting from 1966 to present day.
Now, for players like Dwyane Wade, who are undeniable Hall of Famers, don’t fit the bill of making the all-time roster for the Bulls with playing such small stints with the franchise.
Check out our Chicago Bulls all-time roster below.
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Eric Woodyard: Jazz Coach Quin Snyder …
Eric Woodyard: Jazz Coach Quin Snyder says “You can’t talk about the Utah Jazz without talking about Coach (Jerry) Sloan.” Snyder says in the time he knew him, he was a “great man.” He’s happy the Jazz will honor him in Orlando with the jersey patches.
After Sloan died last Friday at the age …
After Sloan died last Friday at the age of 78, several obituaries resurfaced his classic quote about C.J. Miles: “I don’t care if he’s 19 or 30. If he’s going to be on the floor in the NBA, he’s got to be able to step up and get after it. We can’t put diapers on him one night and a jockstrap the next night. It’s just the way it is.” In a phone interview, Miles called the quote “hilarious.” He remembers that Sloan said it during his second season, by which point he had plenty of experience with the coach’s brand of candor. He remembers that people thought his feelings would be hurt.
“People asked me about that,” Miles …
“People asked me about that,” Miles said. “I was like, no, it didn’t hurt my feelings. Because 1) he had said worse to me before, 2) I knew where he came from when he spoke to me. He wasn’t trying to embarrass me.” During his rookie season, Miles spotted Sloan and some other Jazz staffers while out with his agent and a couple of friends in New Jersey. He stopped by their table to exchange pleasantries. “You got some good size on you,” Sloan said to him. “You play ball?”
Miles credits Sloan for his …
Miles credits Sloan for his non-negotiable routine throughout the season, which he believes is the foundation for his entire career. As mentoring younger players has become part of his job description, he has found himself thinking back to his early days in Salt Lake City. “It might be in my own vernacular,” Miles said, “but I’m definitely repeating 80 percent of the stuff that he told me.”
Boston’s Gordon Hayward lauds Jerry Sloan’s role in his own career
Boston Celtic veteran forward Gordon Hayward shared his condolences for the loss of Jerry Sloan, who Hayward credits with his transition to the NBA.
Boston Celtics veteran forward Gordon Hayward didn’t play under then-Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan for very long, but the impression he left was a big one.
Hayward penned a short note he shared on Twitter about Sloan after news broke that the legendary Jazz coach had passed away at age 78 after fighting Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia for several years.
The former Bulldog — fresh out of being drafted by Utah out of Butler in the 2010 NBA Draft — played only a few months for Sloan before he would resign his post in February of 2011, ending a 24-season relationship with the franchise as its head coach.
“I didn’t get to spend a lot of time playing for Coach Sloan, but coming in as a rookie he had a major impact on my transition to the [NBA], Hayward would tweet. “I’m grateful for that. Prayers to his family, friends and loved ones. May he Rest In Peace.”
Unfortunately for the former Jazz coach and basketball lifer, the high-water mark of his tenure with Utah coincided with the peak of Michael Jordan’s career, twice denied a banner by His Airness in the 1997 and 1998 Finals.
Sloan coached the Jazz to a 1,127-682 record between 1988 and 2011, and was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 2009.
Rest in Power, Charlie Hustle.
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The Chicago Bulls legend with the …
The Chicago Bulls legend with the steely defense and the hard-nosed reputation walked into Frank Layden’s office, hoping the Utah Jazz head coach would hire him for a scouting job. Layden didn’t know it at the time, but the two would become attached at the hip and lifelong friends and lead a team together that would become one of the standards of small-market NBA franchises. Layden, already legendary in Salt Lake City for the work he had done with the Jazz to that point, could feel Jerry Sloan’s presence. It didn’t take more than a few minutes for Layden to know exactly what he was dealing with. He liked him immediately.