Take this story for what you will because ironically enough, it happened at Best Buy, but really isn't that so fitting?
A friend of mine works for the Geek Squad in the Sandy/Draper Best Buy. He went in for a normal day of work, fixing peoples virus riddled computers. Anyway, he turns on a laptop to see some awkwardly stretched and pixelated image of Jerry Sloan as the desktop background. "What kind of fan keeps a giant picture of Sloan as their background?" was his first thought, but being used to seeing all sorts of bizarre things on people's home computers (lots of porn) he went about his work. He finished repairing the issue with the computer, set it aside, and didn't think much else about it. Later that day, in walks a middle-aged blond woman. She gives him her information and instantly the laptop makes sense. It's Tammy Sloan. Being the forward person that he is, he makes small chat for a moment while explaining to her what they had to do to repair her computer, and then asks if it's okay if he talks about the Jazz with her because he is a big fan. She responds with "of course" so he proceeds to ask her why Jerry actually quit. Her answer came without hesitation "two words: Deron Williams." He was under the impression that since soon after Jerry had left D-will was traded, that maybe the media had blown the whole situation between the two out of proportion. He prodded a little more and she said that Jerry met after the game to tell the management that D-Will's behavior had gotten so out of hand that he felt they needed to step in. Management somewhat assumed that his frustration was heat of the moment, and tried to diffuse the situation. He resolved then that he had had enough, and that the team issues could be someone else's problem. She also said that the tension between the two had been building up for a long time and that Deron had a history of doing strange things like faking injuries to get out of practices and trying to undermine Jerry.
He wasn't sure why she was so candid about the whole thing. Maybe it's because if anyone tried to relay the story it would probably sound made up anyway. Take it for what you will, considering the whole point of view came from one side, and it's not like Jerry is an angel. I, for one, found it interesting though. Flame away.
A friend of mine works for the Geek Squad in the Sandy/Draper Best Buy. He went in for a normal day of work, fixing peoples virus riddled computers. Anyway, he turns on a laptop to see some awkwardly stretched and pixelated image of Jerry Sloan as the desktop background. "What kind of fan keeps a giant picture of Sloan as their background?" was his first thought, but being used to seeing all sorts of bizarre things on people's home computers (lots of porn) he went about his work. He finished repairing the issue with the computer, set it aside, and didn't think much else about it. Later that day, in walks a middle-aged blond woman. She gives him her information and instantly the laptop makes sense. It's Tammy Sloan. Being the forward person that he is, he makes small chat for a moment while explaining to her what they had to do to repair her computer, and then asks if it's okay if he talks about the Jazz with her because he is a big fan. She responds with "of course" so he proceeds to ask her why Jerry actually quit. Her answer came without hesitation "two words: Deron Williams." He was under the impression that since soon after Jerry had left D-will was traded, that maybe the media had blown the whole situation between the two out of proportion. He prodded a little more and she said that Jerry met after the game to tell the management that D-Will's behavior had gotten so out of hand that he felt they needed to step in. Management somewhat assumed that his frustration was heat of the moment, and tried to diffuse the situation. He resolved then that he had had enough, and that the team issues could be someone else's problem. She also said that the tension between the two had been building up for a long time and that Deron had a history of doing strange things like faking injuries to get out of practices and trying to undermine Jerry.
He wasn't sure why she was so candid about the whole thing. Maybe it's because if anyone tried to relay the story it would probably sound made up anyway. Take it for what you will, considering the whole point of view came from one side, and it's not like Jerry is an angel. I, for one, found it interesting though. Flame away.
