Sloan's focus on family
Wife's health has precedence for Jazz coach
Rather, the health of wife, Bobbye, will take precedence.
Sloan missed Monday's win over Dallas to be with Bobbye, a cancer survivor who has been ill with flu-like symptoms for the past several weeks.
"She has to have a biopsy done . . . to be more definitive with what is going on with her, so it's hard to tell you," said Sloan, who struggled with his brief comments before returning to practice Tuesday morning.
Bobbye, who was treated for breast cancer roughly 6 1/2 years ago, and 61-year-old Jerry Sloan were high school sweethearts growing up together in McLeansboro, Ill.
Longtime assistant Phil Johnson subbed for Sloan on Monday, but Sloan — who said he watched only "the last minute" of the win over the Mavericks on television — on Tuesday said he planned to be back on the sideline tonight.
One report later Tuesday suggested some test results had already been received, but Jazz officials said no update regarding those results would be made public until the Sloans are prepared to do so.
"Just hours before the Knicks, Suns trade went down, more rumors were flying that the Jazz and Suns were talking about a deal that would send Tom Gugliotta and draft picks to (Utah). In return, the Suns would net more cap space. Now . . . you have to believe that the Suns will be even more motivated to make this deal happen.
"The Jazz are roughly $8.7 million under the salary cap right now, meaning they can absorb a lot more salary than they have to send out in return. Since Gugliotta is in the last year of his contract, there are no long-term financial ramifications for the Jazz making the trade. They are essentially paying for draft picks.
"Two different scenarios have been flying around. One has the Suns swapping Gugliotta ($11.9 million this year), the Knicks first-rounder and a Cavs first-round pick (top 13 protected) owned by the Suns to Utah for Keon Clark ($5 million this year) . . . The other scenario has the Suns sending Gugliotta, Jake Voskuhl ($1.5 million), Casey Jacobsen ($1 million) and the Knicks first-rounder to Utah for Clark and DeShawn Stevenson ($1.6 million). That trade gives Utah a couple of young players in Jacobsen and Voskuhl who could actually help the team without cutting deeply into their cap space for next season."
And now, reality . . .
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