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Utah Jazz: Sloan returning for 21st season

臥龍知返

By Tim Buckley
Deseret News

When the 2008 NBA playoffs ended for the Jazz last month, coach Jerry Sloan —
 as he typically does — declined to say for certain that he would return for
yet another season.

上個月爵士這個賽季結束的時候，
龍哥一如往常拒絕透露是否仍會回來執教。

This morning, however, Sloan said he indeed will work for at least another
year in Utah.

不過今天早上，龍哥跟記者說他至少會再待一年。

"I'm planning on coming back, and looking forward to it," Sloan said by
telephone during a break in chores on his farm in southern Illinois.

「回來就回來。」趁著農忙的空檔他接了這通電話。

In doing so, Sloan will be fulfilling the final season that remains on his
current contract with the Jazz.

這麼一來，龍哥剛好可以履行他跟爵士最後一年的約。

It will be the 21st season in Utah for Sloan, who is tenured with the same
team longer than any another coach or manager in America's four major
professional leagues — the NBA, NFL, NHL and Major League Baseball.

這也將讓他創下在同一隊執教21年的紀錄，
是美國四大職業運動中最久的一個。

The decision to come back, Sloan suggested, was a relatively easy one —
 especially after he had some time to decompress following a season in which
the Jazz reached the second round of the NBA playoffs before being eliminated
by the Los Angeles Lakers.

做這樣的決定對龍哥來講並不困難，
特別是在農場沉潛了好一段日子之後。

"I think we have a good team, and they can get better," he said of a club
that also reached the 2007 Western Conference finals.

「這支球隊還可以更上一層樓。」龍哥這麼形容。

"And I think that's their ambition, based on what we talked about when we met
after the season ended."

「球季結束的時候你也看到了他們有多不甘心，」
「是鬥志感動了我。」

Sloan, who last week attended the league's annual pre-draft camp in Orlando
along with other Jazz officials, plans to return to Utah in time to watch
workouts next week in advance of the June 26 NBA Draft.

龍哥上禮拜也去奧蘭多參加了聯盟辦的選秀夏令營，
他計畫下禮拜回到鹽湖城觀看今年新人男優的測試。


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