SALT LAKE CITY — Ever since John Stockton and Karl Malone were immortalized in Salt Lake City with bigger-than-life statues, a question has been asked around Jazzland.
When will Greg Ostertag get his statue?
Oops. That’s not the question.
The real one: How about a statue for Hall of Fame coach Jerry Sloan?
Or at least an honorary John Deere tractor?
Sloan’s reluctance to have a statue and attention brought to himself might be one of the main reasons. He did, after all, resist to allowing the franchise to host a special banner-raising ceremony after he retired in 2011 with 1,223 overall victories with the franchise.