'He was hard-nosed but also had that softer side that I'll always remember. He treated people right.'
Michael Wilbon shared a story on ESPN on Friday of a fight between Sloan and Cincinnati's Norm Van Lier that spilled into the concourse. The Bulls wanted to trade for Van Lier but ran it by Sloan first.
“All we knew of him as a player were the stories we heard,” Collin Wood said. “But they were great stories. It goes back to his upbringing. I think one thing we always knew about him was that he came from a hard-working family and brought himself up from nothing. He was a humble guy. Every time you would hear him talk, he would say he was grateful for his opportunities. He was always such a down-to-earth type of person.
The Woods remember traveling to Jazz games prior to Sloan’s retirement and watching behind-the-scenes action up close. “There was a softer side to him that people didn’t see as much. He cared a lot about his family and friends. And he had a sense of humor to him that was easy to see if you were around him.”
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