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Former Baylor coach Kim Mulkey, now at LSU, points to someone in the audience at the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame awards tip-off celebration and awards gala, Friday, May 14, 2021, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) May 14, 2021 - 6:38 PM
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) â Mike Breen remembers the way he was taught the game of basketball, and quickly learned that it is best when the five players on the floor work as one.
He took the same approach into his career.
Breen â the longtime voice of the New York Knicks as well as the NBA on ESPN and ABC â was one of the honorees Friday night by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, one of the Curt Gowdy Media Award winners that pay tribute to the game s best storytellers in various mediums.
Legacy of Utah Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan, his late wife, lives on in their Illinois hometown
Legacy of Utah Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan, his late wife, lives on in their Illinois hometown
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MCLEANSBORO, Illinois â When you pull into this town, one of the first things you can see is Hamilton County Junior/Senior High School.
It sits on Jerry Sloan Drive. And if you follow the drive around to the back of the school, you find the gymnasium named for the late Utah Jazz Coach.
âI probably first met Coach Sloan in the fourth grade at his basketball camp here in town,â said Doug Miller, the boyâs basketball coach for Sloanâs old team, the Hamilton County High School Foxes.
Letter: A few questions about the title-bound Utah Jazz
Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) lays the ball up while guarded by Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic (27) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Isaac Hale)
By Marty Bernstein | The Public Forum
| May 13, 2021, 12:00 p.m. | Updated: 2:06 p.m.
So glad to see our Utah Jazz on their way to our first NBA championship and it’s great to see fannies in the stands again.
I just have a couple questions. Who are the staff members of the teams, usually 10-15 of them who travel with the teams to all the games. You see them sitting next to or behind the teams! Are they assistants, trainers, medics, analysts, analytics techies, hairdressers, cheerleaders who don’t cheer, or what? Seems like an unnecessary expense.
May 7, 2021
Steve Kerr, ever the statesman, won’t say which team or which player the Warriors chose to torment one fine evening back in January only that he saw a chance to unleash Stephen Curry, one of the greatest offensive weapons in basketball history, on some poor, overmatched defender.
“We wanted to pick on a certain matchup,” Kerr recalls. “And so the first four or five minutes of the game, we said, ‘Let’s run pick and roll against this guy for five straight minutes.’ ”
For five straight minutes, Curry feasted, scoring at will. It all worked brilliantly … except for one problem: The rest of the Warriors drifted out of the offense, out of sync with each other. “We sort of lost traction with the game itself,” Kerr says. “It was not the right strategy.”
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Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder talks with Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) during a timeout in Salt Lake City on Friday, April 2, 2021. Snyder is among the top candidates for the NBA’s Coach of the Year award this season.
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Not only does the Friday night game between the Utah Jazz and Phoenix Suns have major playoff implications, but it will feature two coaches in the Jazz’s Quin Snyder and the Suns’ Monty Williams who are thick in the conversation for the NBA’s Coach of the Year award.
Earlier this season, Snyder was widely seen as the heavy favorite to win it. Utah was largely expected to be a mid-tier playoff team or worse in the preseason, so the fact it had vaulted to the top of the ridiculously strong Western Conference made Snyder’s case.