With legendary head coach Jerry Sloan gone, the Jazz enter a new era of change.
Greg Miller didn't want to believe what he was hearing. No, that's wrong. He believed it. He just wanted to do something to change it.
The new owner of the Utah Jazz is not troubled by transitions. He has been dealing with that for the last three years, as his father, the late patriarch of the Jazz, Larry H. Miller, struggled with the diabetes that would eventually take his life in 2009. But Larry Miller made sure that his children knew enough about his various businesses to take over. The Millers met weekly over the past few years as a family to discuss how things would go after Larry Miller's passing. (They still meet weekly.)
So Greg Miller had thought about what life would be like for his team after Jerry Sloan left. He would honor his father's wishes and hire assistant coach Phil Johnson to replace Sloan when the time came. Johnson had turned down chances to leave