You may very well be correct. I do not know anyone in the organization, all I really know iswaht I read. but at the time the story was:
"After repeated clashes with star point guard
Deron Williams and a belief he had become undermined with ownership, Jerry Sloan resigned as the
Utah Jazz coach after 23 seasons, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
The increasingly contentious relationship between Sloan and Williams boiled over when they clashed at halftime of a loss to the
Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night. The showdown between Sloan and Williams became so heated on Wednesday, at least two Jazz players feared that the coach and star could come to blows – even though the confrontation ended before reaching that point."
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AvMBIQ_OPb.Ygo3vJI3eyCS8vLYF?slug=aw-sloanretiring021011
And of course the media frequently gets tings wrong.