Jazz Hall of Famer

All-time NBA coaching victory leaders

1. Lenny Wilkens  1,332
2. Don Nelson*  1,199
3. Pat Riley*  1,158
4. Larry Brown  1,010
5. Jerry Sloan*  999

* active

-Of his 999 career victories, 905 have come with the Jazz. The other 94 came as coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1979 to 1982.
-The Hall-of-Fame combination of John Stockton and Karl Malone played for Sloan for 15 seasons and helped amass 781 victories and two trips to the NBA Finals (1997 and 1998).
-The Jazz reached the postseason 15 times in Sloan's first 18 seasons. They appear to be on their way back to the playoffs this season after a three-year hiatus.

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Peja, Darko, Krstic to play for Serbia in EuroBasket '07

BELGRADE, Serbia -- Good news has come in threes for Serbia, with NBA stars Peja Stojakovic, Nenad Krstic and Darko Milicic all confirming their intention to play in EuroBasket 2007.

Both Stojakovic and Krstic missed the World Championship this summer with a young Serbia & Montenegro side -- competing as one for the final time -- exiting in the round of 16 with a loss to eventual champion Spain.

But newly independent Serbia will be far stronger at next September's EuroBasket following the commitment from their leading players.

Speaking to the Sportska Centrala agency, Milicic, a reserve center for Orlando Magic, said he is "desperately waiting to play in the jersey of Serbia" next year.

He added that Dragan Sakota -- who coached Serbia & Montenegro in Japan this summer -- had told him Stojakovic also will travel.

"Sakota told us that Peja will be at EuroBasket 2007," said Milicic, the second overall pick in the 2003 draft. "It will be the first but also the last competition he'll participate in as a member of the Serbian national team."

Serbia's return to independence for the first time in 88 years has awoken new emotions in the nation's athletes, and the basketball players are no exception.

Stojakovic's return is not a complete surprise. The New Orleans Hornets forward stated his intention to play at EuroBasket when excusing himself from World Championship duty due to a knee problem.

However, there were no guarantees with Krstic, the starting center of the New Jersey Nets who agonized over whether to play in Japan but ultimately remained in the United States over the summer to concentrate on his NBA career.

Although the decision created doubts about his international future, Krstic has committed himself to the Serbian cause.

"It was hard for me not to be (in Japan) with my friends and teammates," he said. "I had a lot of doubts about whether to go to Japan or not, but that story is behind us now. From now on, I would like to be a member of Serbian national team."

The youngest player to appear in the NBA Finals, Milicic was the only member of the trio to play in Japan and was the team's most consistent player. He has renewed enthusiasm about representing an independent Serbia.

Political upheaval saw Milicic's nation win the 2002 World Championship as Yugoslavia and compete in the 2006 Worlds as Serbia & Montenegro, falling on hard times in the interim. It will be known simply as Serbia in the future.

"I don't have anything against the past, but since we changed our country's name to Serbia & Montenegro after the other Yugoslav republics got their independence, everything started to collapse in our basketball," he said.

"We were sixth at EuroBasket 2003 and then second-last at the Olympics in Athens, and finally we crashed out of the European Championships in our own country and then this year in Japan.

"But now, with our old coat of arms and national anthem, forbidden during the Yugoslavia era, it will be different, I'm sure."