He has as many Titles as MDA and Marbury. One trip to finals.

Lets hire him so we can run him out also!

We can only hire coaches who have won titles!

Oh, we did that and that did not work! Twice. Lenny Wilkens coached a title also!

We need HOF coaches then!

Oh, Thats right, Lenny and Larry both in HOF!

Can we hire Joe Torre?

Or Announcers! Kenny the Jet, or Mark Jax! They got so many offers after Knicks didn't hire!

What about Oak! Jordans Yes man doing wonders for old Silas in Charlotte!

Nobody take crap from Oak!

Nalod wrote:Why egocentric nature of him leaving being even a possibility for knicks?

Sloan is supposed to be a very tough coach and it looks like some of them couldn't take it. I doubt after all these years Sloan suddenly became a diva.

nyshakespeare wrote:This generation of diva players sucks...Sloan is one of the pillars the NBA was built on...sad day.

Guys get old and fall off. It's life. Popovich adapted his style which is why he is still around.

AnubisADL wrote:

nyshakespeare wrote:This generation of diva players sucks...Sloan is one of the pillars the NBA was built on...sad day.

Guys get old and fall off. It's life. Popovich adapted his style which is why he is still around.

No one on the Spurs would disrespect Pop by calling him out in the press...and Pop usually has way more weapons in his arsenal than Sloan.
Sloan never picked & chose which star players he'd ride to a championship. He took whatever the Utah front office would patchwork together
and spin it to gold on the court.

I have all the respect in the world for Phil Jackson & Pop, but they are two opportunistic mf'ers.
Sloan is the TRUTH...f**k Pierce.

fishmike wrote:on a serious note screw Deron Williams. Sload is one of the great NBA coaches and his resume speaks for itself. Sloan took good teams (not great ones) to the finals. He took below average teams to the playoffs. Dude knows his stuff. Sloan isnt someone you quit on.

Take it easy...We dont even know all the facts unless you believe all these so called "Sources".

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=A2KIRzbcm1RNgUIBSQG8vLYF?slug=aw-sloanretiring021011

After repeated clashes with star point guard Deron Williams and a belief he had become undermined with ownership, Jerry Sloan resigned as the Utah Jazz coach after 23 seasons, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

The increasingly contentious relationship between Sloan and Williams boiled over when they clashed at halftime of a loss to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night. The showdown between Sloan and Williams became so heated on Wednesday, at least two Jazz players feared that the coach and star could come to blows – even though the confrontation ended before reaching that point.

Sloan, 68, had agreed to a one-year contract extension in the past week but his growing frustration became public after a long meeting with Jazz general manager Kevin O’Connor following the team’s loss to the Bulls in Salt Lake City.

Sloan, the NBA’s longest-tenured coach, and his longtime assistant, Phil Johnson, resigned together on Thursday.

Sloan’s relationship with Williams had grown progressively worse over the course of the season, league sources said, and the coach had tired of dealing with the team’s best player. The frustration escalated on Wednesday night when Sloan and Williams clashed in the locker room at halftime.

“He decided right there in halftime that he was done,” a league source told Yahoo! Sports. “He felt like ownership was listening more to Williams than they were to him anymore. He was done.”

One source said Sloan had become tired of Williams “blaming everything on everyone else.” Still, Williams, who can become a free agent in the summer of 2012, has remained the Jazz’s best and most consistent player after the departure of several key teammates. Williams has always had a reputation for wanting to win badly and being a strong leader.

After feeling undermined, one source said Sloan told Jazz owner Greg Miller that if this is how he wanted to run a franchise, he could do it without him as coach.

Assistant coach Ty Corbin has been named acting head coach, and league sources expect the team will move to secure him as Sloan’s long-term replacement in the near future.

Uptown wrote:

fishmike wrote:on a serious note screw Deron Williams. Sload is one of the great NBA coaches and his resume speaks for itself. Sloan took good teams (not great ones) to the finals. He took below average teams to the playoffs. Dude knows his stuff. Sloan isnt someone you quit on.

Take it easy...We dont even know all the facts unless you believe all these so called "Sources".

its very very much out there now. Despite the spin Williams is trying to pull. Very strange that the day BEFORE he steps down, there were reports of him and Williams almost coming to blows during half time. A report that has been validated.

Read a **** load of statements about him being FED up with the sense of entitlement today's players have.