Longtime Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan is dead at 78 (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File) Tony Gutierrez/AP Sloan died Friday morning, May 22, 2020, the Jazz said, from complications related to Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia. The Utah Jazz have announced that Jerry Sloan, the coach who took them to the NBA Finals in 19 on his way to a spot in the Basketball Hall of Fame, has died. 11, 2010, file photo, Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan is shown during an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks in Dallas. In his first season in Baltimore, he guided the team to a 57-25 record – 21 more wins than the prior year – and led the Bullets to their first-ever playoff appearance.Īveraging 13.8 points and 18.2 rebounds per game his rookie season, Unseld won both the Rookie of the Year and regular season Most Valuable Player awards, becoming the second NBA player after Wilt Chamberlain to capture both awards in the same season.įILE - In this Dec. Selected with the second overall pick in the 1968 draft by the Baltimore Bullets, Unseld made an immediate impact and changed the fortunes of the franchise – now known as the Washington Wizards.
Rest easy, Wes ♥️ /NwEtuofgG9- Washington Wizards June 2, 2020 “He was our hero and loved playing and working around the game of basketball for the cities of Baltimore and Washington D.C., cities he proudly wore on his chest for so many years.”
“He was the rock of our family – an extremely devoted patriarch who reveled in being with his wife, children, friends and teammates,” his family wrote. Unseld’s family said he passed away surrounded by relatives and following lengthy health battles, most recently with pneumonia. Wes Unseld, the burly Hall of Famer who led the then-Washington Bullets to the franchise’s only NBA championship, died Tuesday morning, his family said in a statement.
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