Their grandfather, Jerry Sloan, the Utah Jazz coach for two NBA ... Sloan, after graduating high school in 1960 at McLeansboro, made his name as a star player at the University of Evansville ...

MCLEANSBORO, Illinois — 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 ...

Hamilton County High School named its gymnasium after hometown hero Jerry Sloan on Saturday night. Sloan was a big enough high school star to draw the attention of the University of Illinois.

But it was his small-town roots that made Jerry Sloan all the more genuine. He would return to McLeansboro several times in 1984 —the year he became an assistant with the Utah Jazz— to watch his high ...

MCLEANSBORO, Ill. (AP) - 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 ...

Jerry Sloan, the Hall of Fame basketball coach who ... in a one-room school and sometimes had to walk or hitchhike to high school basketball practice. Sloan became an all-state player in high ...

Indeed, Jerry Sloan always told it how it was ... In 1960, Sloan graduated as one of the best high school basketball players in Illinois. After briefly attending the University of Illinois ...

Don Nelson, left, and Jerry Sloan, center, both played high school basketball in Illinois before embarking on their long NBA careers. Rocky Widner/NBAE/Getty Images Though Sloan logged 11 rugged ...

For C.J. Miles and Jerry Sloan, it was tough love at first sight. In 2005, Miles was a skinny 18-year-old on the verge of jumping from Dallas' Skyline High School to the NBA, Sloan a coaching ...

There was a story about Sloan's mother, Jane, after Jerry's team lost a high school playoff game. Moms weren't in the stands then. There were chores. "How had you done?" she asked that next ...

Jerry Sloan often was at his best when circumstances weren’t. Winning was one thing for the ultra-competitive, no-nonsense NBA lifer, a Hall of Famer who was on the scene for more than 50 years ...