The Utah Jazz will hold a press conference today that will be streamed at www.utahjazz.com. Obviously, I will have to direct link up in this post when they start the stream. Jerry Sloan, John Stockton, Karl Malone, Mart Eaton, Mehmet Okur, Byron Russell, Matt Harpring, Thurl Bailey, Hot Rod Hundley, Ron Boone and others including the ownership and big wigs of the LHM Group of Companies have been having a number of events today. Also Mark Jackson too, I presume.The next one will be the press conference.
And yes, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, wrote a hand written letter to Jerry Sloan.
PIC - Here is the handwritten letter from @BarackObama to Coach #JerrySloan pic.twitter.com/R4aWP7joB3
— Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) January 31, 2014
The press conference will be starting at 5:00 pm MT.
EDIT: The Live link is here:
http://www.nba.com/jazz/2014/jerrysloan
Here are some tweets you may have missed if you are not on twitter:
Jerry Sloan Press Conference #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/zp5uhRWlmE
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Jazz played short video before press conference, same video will be shown at Halftime #GSWatUTA #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/wdGIf4Nl1v
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Video ends with this image #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/L3Buj8vdtk
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Greg Miller is the first to talk #bodylanguage #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/OLs741SqpL
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Greg Miller mentions things he has learned from Sloan: sticking to plan, execution, hosing off dirty fishing boats #JerrySloanDay
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Greg Miller expresses desire to take it "half a step further" and win an "NBA Championship" #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/G1hNqK4CNN
— Amar (@AllThatAmar) February 1, 2014
The great @TheDeliverer_32 speaks next, name drops twitter sensation @mamail and Jazz fans on twitter #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/bXjDFggKfJ
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
And @TheDeliverer_32 relates stories of wanting to play hard for Sloan, and never disapoint him #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/pRxtxFDWQt
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
John Stockton droping dimes, mentioning all the teammates there, and guys who are missing #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/WLSE7IsqGE
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Stock talking about the positive relationships between former coaching staffs and Jazz players #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/dndj98Uqs9
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Jerry talking about how Gail Miller stuck a knife in his back, Frank L photobombs #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/GRfilXyobs
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Jerry Sloan talking about fighting back and his players "paying the price to be good." Rips on Frank #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/gYbw7HDpbH
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Jerry talks about his college and pro coaches, talks about Dick Motta influence. Sloan reads SLCDunk it seems #JerrySloanDay : )
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Sloan feels having number retired with Jazz is a great honor. A "Utah person now, through thick and thin." #JerrySloanDay
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Jerry Sloan jokes that he thought #1223 was for how many technical fouls he recieved as a head coach. #JerrySloanDay
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Sloan talks about John and Karl helping him 'get through the day' #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/8X6RLuzz0X
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
On regrets: Would have called a different play against Chicago down the stretch #JerrySloanDay
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
John, Karl talk about clean Jerry Sloan stories. John about vacation, Karl about playing Hard for mins #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/l5hGljwwNr
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Karl and Jerry joke around about always calling the plays for Karl vs Karl carrying team #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/bdLAg1Earp
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
John surprised Jerry by writing an autobiography, has read it twice #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/IBWifXbAf3
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Talking about stepping down, and not being around the team anymore #Allofthefeels #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/NPtRfarQL8
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
"These guys are going to be pretty good." re: Stockton and Malone #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/IPoWHNwGTb
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Stockton suggests Jerry's doctrine of "getting rid of the nonsense," helped keep things on even keel #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/eay5F5LAV0
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Karl talks about how Jerry taught him to respect teammates and opponents. And to never make excuses #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/dJ6P8Mgiov
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
"Tuck your shirt in, no one want to see your behind, and be ready when I call your name" - Malone recounting Sloan-ism #JerrySloanDay
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Group Picture Time! #JerrySloanDay pic.twitter.com/uk3RwoaJ1b
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014
Thank you so much to the @utahjazz for streaming this for all of Jerry's fans all over the world #JerrySloanDay
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) February 1, 2014