Head Coach Jerry Sloan to resign today :(

[calijazz]

WojYahooNBA:

"A dark day for the NBA with Jerry Sloan gone," Jeff Van Gundy just told me. "There won't be another like him."

https://twitter.com/#!/WojYahooNBA/status/35779018506768384

 

[fargon_sneaky_bastage]

I have not done a ****ing thing at work since this happened. I'm just stunned.

Me neither. I've been answering questions from coworkers and family members while simultaneously trying to pick my jaw up off the floor.

 

[AlaskanAssassin]

I sure hope it wasn't Deron's doing. The day the Jazz allow the a player to dictate such things is the day they lose all they once stood for.

I couldn't have put it any better myself. What a sad way for a HOF coach to walk away. Maybe we'll get a better explanation as to what happened at the press conference.

 

[VINYLONE]

I agree, but let the guy finish the damn season, geez. This isn;t how it should have ended. I hoped for a retirement at season's end, but not this.

The longer Sloan stayed on board the higher the chances it would happen like this...he should have retired last year. I agree, it sucks its the middle of the season but everyone is ****ing frustrated.

 

[GVC]

I want Horny or Stockton to be the next coach. Not Corbin

Too black?

 

[fallenchicken]

KOC should resign with him.

 

[zman1527]

Shocking. Surprising. Never in my wildest did I ever think this would happen. I always figured that they would let Jerry hang around until he wanted to quit and he would never quit mid-season. Was he forced or did he just decide it was time?

And it is time. Jerry did not seem to have any solutions this year and things were getting worse, not better. Time to move on. We all come to the end at some time and Jerry had a helluva run. As one of the so-called "haters" my hat is off to him for the time and effort he put in, the teamwork style he insisted on, and the disciplined team that he ran.

 

[Fakers Luck]

Wow, I just remembered I had a dream about Sloan two nights ago...just wow.

 

[VINYLONE]

Still no stories or announcements on the major sport networks.

 

[fallenchicken]

Still no stories or announcements on the major sport networks.

If this was Miami, CNN would have stopped all regular programming.

 

[reignman40]

When I first saw it on the news a few mins ago I couldn't believe my eyes or want to grt my hopes up. I couldn't distinguish if it said re-sign or resign. I think this a long time coming Sloans coaching is to 70's before there was a 3 point line to guard. Surprised to see Johnson go as well. I don't see him being to different than Sloan anyway.

 

[Siro]

Okay, let's just agree that the way he walked is sad (if it is indeed after a fight with KOC). Now that the sadness is out of the way, the Jazz needed a major change like this. Great news.