Sloan tells players be home by midnight
After the incident in Portland, Coach Sloan makes the decision to impose a
road curfew
By Phil Miller
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 01/23/2007 01:59:41 AM MST
Nobody was charged with any crimes after a Portland police investigation into
some Jazz players' late-night encounter with an exotic dancer last October,
but that doesn't mean the incident had no repercussions.
For the first time in his 19 years running the Jazz, Jerry Sloan has
instituted a blanket curfew during the team's road trips, the coach said
Monday. When traveling with the team, every player is required to be in his
hotel room by midnight, Sloan said, or face punishment, presumably fines or
suspension.
"I've never done that before, not for the whole season, but I just felt
we needed to have some rules," the coach said. "This team has a lot of young
guys. After what happened in Portland, we just thought, 'Let's try to keep
things under control.' "
A report by the Multnomah County district attorney earlier this month
said police found no evidence of a crime in the Oct. 23 incident. But the
report said the four Jazz players under investigation had returned to their
hotel at 2:30 a.m. on the morning of a preseason game, after spending several
hours at a nightclub.
Apart from the issue of criminal wrongdoing, that got Sloan's attention,
too. The following week, he said, he established a curfew.
Sloan said he has not conducted bedchecks to assure the curfew is being
followed, and he would not say if there have been any violations since. But
if he discovered a player in violation, he would assess a punishment.
"I don't want to be in every guy's personal life, [so] every time they
turn around they see me trying to police everything they do," Sloan said.
"Hopefully, they understand basketball is what we're here for. It's not
totally entertainment off the floor."
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