May 22 news, today, according to the official news of the jazz, jazz coach Jerry Sloan died of Parkinson's syndrome at the age of 78.
Jerry Sloan was born on March 28, 1942, and was drafted by the Baltimore Bullets (now the Washington Wizards) in the 1st round of the 1965 NBA Draft, moving to the Bulls after one year. Player Era was named to the NBA All-Star Team twice and to the NBA All-Defensive Team four times.
After retiring as a coach in 1976, he coached the Bulls and then the Jazz, and Sloan served as Jazz head coach for 23 years from 1988 to 2011, leading the Jazz to 1127 regular season victories. He is the only manager in NBA history to lead a team to a 1,000-win victory. In the 1996-97 and 1997-98 seasons, he led the Jazz to the Finals twice, but unfortunately lost to Jordan's Bulls. But Coach Sloan is the longest coach in the four major leagues on the same team.
In 2009, Sloan was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. In 26 years of coaching career, Sloan coached the 2024 games, winning 1221 and 803 losses, with a winning percentage of 60.3%.
Coach Sloan also made several appearances in this week's Michael Jordan documentary The Last Dance.
In the 1997 Finals G5 "Flu Battle", Jordan had food poisoning after eating pizza the night before the game, but the media reported that he had the flu, but Jordan still played 44 minutes and scored 38 points, leading the team to a 90-88 narrow victory over the Jazz. As soon as the game was over, Jordan collapsed and almost fell, but fortunately Pippen came up to help him off the field.
At the post-match press conference, a reporter asked Sloan, "Coach, how much do you know about Jordan's physical condition?" How did he look at first? How hard did he put in order to overcome his illness? ”
Sloane replied, "First of all, I didn't know he was sick. I think he played a great game and anyone else knows he's sick? I'm probably the last to know. ”
Coach Sloan finally laughed, and he used this humorous self-blackening method to defuse the media's difficulties.
In the fall of 2015, Coach Sloan was found to have Parkinson's syndrome and Lewy body dementia. In May 2016, Sloan made the announcement because patients with Parkinson's syndrome experienced symptoms that were easily detectable, such as physical shaking and insomnia.
Since then, the symptoms of the old marshal have intensified year by year.
In an interview, Mr. Sloane said with tears: "Jazz is really a happy family, and this is the thing I always miss now, because I am no longer a member of this family, because my life will go down another path." 」 I'm not afraid of illness, I'm just worried about my body that shakes every day. ”
On May 19, Jazz star Carl Malone participated in the "NBA '90s Reunion" live show, in which Malone talked about the physical condition of Jazz meritorious coach Sloane and wanted everyone to pray for Coach Sloan: "Finally I need to talk about this, stockton and I have been discussing this recently. As far as I know, Coach Sloan has not been in good shape lately. So, I want everyone to pray for him. ”
Unexpectedly, Coach Sloan died of illness so soon, let us send our final blessings: all the way!