While admitting the escalation of salaries "boggles my mind," Utah Jazz owner Larry H. Miller staged a news conference to announce new multiyear agreements with star players Karl Malone and John Stockton. Although exact terms of the contracts were not disclosed, Malone's contract is an eight-year deal worth an estimated $24 million, while Stockton's is a six-year contract believed to be worth as much as $14 million.
Until they bring rings to Salt Lake City, [Deron Williams] and [Carlos Boozer] never will rate with John Stockton and Karl Malone. Maybe Williams, who drives down John Stockton Drive a couple hundred times a year, would say that's obvious. Except that he wouldn't. His favorite point guard: Jason Kidd. His take on Jazz fans: "They didn't retire with John and Karl. They're hungry for a championship just like we are.
SALT LAKE CITY -- When his pass set up an Andrei Kirilenko layup in the third quarter Monday, Deron Williams earned an entry into some extremely exclusive groups of players who've dished out 3,000 assists. Scoot over John Stockton, Karl Malone and Rickey Green, there's a new assists-cranking machine in your club.
As much as things change, the more they remain the same for coach Jerry Sloan and the Utah Jazz. John Stockton and Karl Malone, one of the greatest teammate duos of all-time in the National Basketball Association, have retired and the Jazz have gone from being one of the powers in the Western Conference to a team that has to scratch and scrape for every victory.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Karl Malone, John Stockton and the rest of the original Dream Team can now circle a date on their 2010 calendars and write "Hall of Fame" in the little square. Malone, as an individual player, and the entire 1992 Olympic Dream Team have officially been nominated to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame -- as was first reported in the Deseret News in November -- and will likely be enshrined into hoops immortality in Springfield, Mass., in August.
Kris Humphries started his career in Utah playing for Jerry Sloan and was shocked to learn his former coach resigned suddenly Thursday Oh yeah," Humphries said. "After 23 years, you'd like to see a guy like that go out the right way. I'm sure next year they'll put up a little statue next to [Karl] Malone and [John] Stockton and give him the right ovation he deserves. But it's tough to see him go out like that during the year.
OAKLAND -- Retired numbers honoring former Jazz players John Stockton, Karl Malone, Jeff Hornacek, Mark Eaton, Darrell Griffith and Pete Maravich -- plus another for retired coach and general manager Frank Layden -- hang at EnergySolutions Arena. One has been noticeably absent for quite some time.
SALT LAKE CITY -- After 23 years, 20 playoff appearances, two NBA Finals and nine division championships, it could be argued that Jerry Sloan and Phil Johnson were the true dynamic duo of the Utah Jazz. John Stockton and Karl Malone weren't bad, either. But someone had to draw up the plays.
Years before any of the professional sports championships were won there, and long before the likes of John Stockton and Karl Malone overwhelmed opponents on its floor, the Salt Palace hosted its first major event. Forty years ago today -- on July 12, 1969, just a night after a huge venue-warming party and a month after its completion -- Glen Campbell crooned his Western-style tunes to a sold-out audience of 13,420 inside a sparkling, new, odd-shaped arena.
DENVER -- They spent 12 seasons as a trio -- point guard John Stockton, power forward Karl Malone and coach Jerry Sloan -- before finally getting where they wanted. To the NBA Finals, that is.
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