Utah Jazz Coaches - New Orleans Jazz Coaches, Utah Jazz Head Coaches, Jerry Sloan, Elgin Baylor, List of Utah Jazz Head Coaches, Tom Nissalke (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: New Orleans Jazz Coaches, Utah Jazz Head Coaches, Jerry Sloan, Elgin Baylor, List of Utah Jazz Head Coaches, Tom Nissalke, Frank Layden. Excerpt: Selected by Baltimore Bullets Gerald Eugene Sloan, better known as Jerry Sloan (born March 28, 1942) is an American Basketball Hall of Fame-inducted head coach with the Utah Jazz of the NBA. He is one of professional basketball's most successful coaches, with a career regular-season winloss record of 1137751 (as of the end of the 200809 NBA season), placing him fourth on the list of all-time most-winning NBA coaches. Sloan collected his 1,000th career win against the Dallas Mavericks on December 11, 2006, in a 10179 victory, which made him only the fifth coach in NBA history to reach the milestone. Sloan is the only coach in NBA history to record 1,000 wins with the same club, having reached that mark on November 7, 2008 with a win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. He has also coached for one team longer than anyone in NBA history. The 200910 season was his 22nd season (and 21st full season) as coach of the Jazz. However, he has not won an NBA Coach of the Year award, to the surprise of many, nor coached any team to an NBA championship. Nevertheless, he remains one of the league's most respected coaches. After Tom Kelly stepped down as manager of the Minnesota Twins in 2001, Sloan became the longest-tenured head coach in American major league sports with their current franchise. The only manager in any top professional league that has headed their current team for longer is Sir Alex Ferguson of English football team Manchester United. He married his high school sweetheart, Bobbye Sloan. They had three children and were married 41 years. After a well publicized six year battle against breast cancer, s... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=494643