Sloan reaches 1,000th NBA win as Jazz overwhelm Mavs LAKE CITY -- As much as he wanted to treat it like any other victory, Jazz gave him his 1,000th win as an NBA coach. Sloan with a chant of "Jer-ry! Jer-ry!
" for the final two minutes, then I've had a few of those over the years," Sloan said. "The most well and I think they enjoyed that." After the buzzer, Sloan quietly shook hands with his players and assistant coaches, then started toward the locker room as if it were any other victory.
He had for a long time and I went over to congratulate him. He deserves it," said Johnson, who has 90 wins in his short coaching career. "He's been one of the most consistent coaches in the history of our game.
" Boozer led Utah with 31 points and 11 rebounds. He said after the game the Jazz players all signed the ball, then presented it to Sloan -- "That's how Coach is. Coach is one of those guys that's the same guy every day.
He's not going to celebrate a big win," Boozer said. "That's not who he is. He has bigger goals in mind.
" Sloan is the fifth coach to win 1,000 games. It "I'm glad it's behind us and now we can play basketball," said Sloan, who is 1,000-663 as a coach. led Dallas with 26 points and 11 rebounds.
No one else approached double figures on the boards for the Mavericks, who were outrebounded floor," Nowitzki said. "In the third and the fourth, we couldn't really get it down to 10, eight, to make it a ballgame. You've got to give them the credit.
" The Mavericks had won seven of their last eight game against the Jazz, but never held a lead in their first meeting this season. shot 26-for-69 from the field. Anthony Johnson was the only Maverick third quarter, cutting Utah's 51-39 lead to 55-47 on a shot in the lane Johnson as the shot clock expired, but the Jazz answered with a 10-2 run.
Kirilenko drove around Devean George for a layup, then dunked over converted a three-point play that put Utah up 85-65, then hit an 18-foot jumper to make the lead 22 with 8:07 left. Mehmet Okur added a quarter. Only 6:19 remained and the Mavs had already pulled their awesome," Nowitzki said, shaking his head.
"I'm not really happy that we got to be a part of it, but he meant so much to this league. He always gets the best out of his players.
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