Don't bother asking

MINNEAPOLIS ‘ With Jerry Sloan about to celebrate ‘ or at least reach, as he’s not one to commemorate much of anything ‘ his 20th anniversary of head coach of the Jazz on Tuesday, questions abound.
How has he lasted so long when so many others have not? How does he feel when someone else is fired? What keeps him going?
Those and others prompt memories of this classic exchange, which came last month in New York, a few short days after Sloan had won his 1,000 game as the Jazz coach.
Even before the Big Apple scribe couldn’t finish his query, Sloan ‘ whose 13-9 Jazz visit the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday night ‘ bit.
The question: ‘Coach, will there be a time where you sit back and reflect on ”’
Sloan’s interrupting response, sans pause: ‘Probably not. I’ll probably still be in basketball.”
The point:
Sloan, who has been hashing out details on a one-year contract extension for next season with Jazz management/ownership ever since training camp for this season was getting away in early October, is a basketball lifer.
If mind, body and soul all agree to allow, there will never, ever be a day that he settles into a chair, rocks and ponders what was.
Work ‘ toiling somehow, some way in the only game he knows ‘ will keep him much too busy for that.

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