How Jerry Sloan helped save one woman’s life

Scott G Winterton, Deseret News Utah head coach Jerry Sloan talks with the media after practice for Game 2 on Sunday at the Toyota Center in Houston on April 22, 2007.A story written in the Chicago Tribune by Melissa Isaacson during the 1997 NBA Finals between the Utah Jazz and the Chicago Bulls illustrates the kind of person the late Jerry Sloan was.

In the article, Isaacson relays the story of a 15-year-old girl who attended a girls basketball camp run by Sloan in Chicago. Her mother didn’t have enough money for the camp, but Sloan took an understanding approach, admitting her to the camp for free and even driving her home afterward because her mom wasn’t off work by the time the camp…