Brad Miller had more technical fouls than points Wednesday night, a sure sign Jarron Collins was doing his job.
Miller came into the game averaging 12.6 points per game but the Chicago Bulls center took just four shots, missed them all and went scoreless in 22 minutes.
For much of the night he appeared more concerned with getting at Collins than getting to the basket, at one point shoving Jazz forward Bryon Russell in frustration to draw a technical foul.
""I can tell when a guy gets frustrated because he starts throwing elbows and cheap shots," Collins said. ""You just keep playing. That"s when it"s fun."
When Collins, a 6-foot-11, 255 pound rookie center, sees the frustration simmering in an opponent, he knows to keep applying the pressure.
""He"s more worried about me than doing his job," Collins said. ""That"s what I try to do defensively."
Four days earlier, Sacramento All-Star Chris Webber went 4-for-16 from the field, getting so frustrated at one point he threw an elbow into Collins" chin, drawing a flagrant foul - and later earning a one-game suspension from the NBA.
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There was plenty of thievery at the Delta Center Wednesday night - along with yet another Karl Malone milestone - but there was nothing that reminded folks of the Jazz-Bulls rivalry in its heyday. Instead of Michael Jordan in No. 23 leading the way for Chicago, there was Eddie Robinson in No. 32 leading them with 18 points.
Instead of posturing for an NBA Finals rematch, the two teams were struggling simply to find their way.
Instead of intensity, there was apathy.
""It looked like we were just trying to get it over with," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said of his team"s 90-78 victory over Chicago, the worst team in the league.
The game featured 30 steals but many of those came from sloppy offense rather than great defense.
""When you"re not concentrating on playing basketball and looking to get the game over, that"s what you get from both teams," Sloan said, noting Chicago had 22 turnovers and the Jazz had 20.
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The NBA suspended Sacramento All-Star forward Chris Webber for one game and fined him $7,500 for deliberately throwing an elbow at the head of Jazz rookie Jarron Collins during the Kings' 114-90 win over Utah on Saturday at the Delta Center.
Webber also will lose about $155,000 of his $12.75 million salary because of the suspension, which will prevent him from playing tonight against Seattle.
With 9:58 left in the third quarter, Webber was called for a flagrant foul after running down the floor and -- away from the ball -- hitting a surprised-looking Collins in the face.
"The league makes those decisions," said Kevin O'Connor, the Jazz's vice president of basketball operations. "They review every flagrant foul and, just like last year, when Karl [Malone] backhanded Christian Laettner, they felt it was intentional and a blow to the head. . . . Based on that, they made the decision to suspend" Webber.
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Jazz Jan 2002 Archive
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| Jan 31, 2002
As the final minutes melted away in the Jazz's 90-78 win over Chicago on Wednesday night, only one question remained:
Would Karl Malone score the one point he needed to reach 34,000 in his career at the emptying Delta Center? Or would he wait to reach the milestone until the opening moments of Saturday's nationally televised game against Portland?
When Malone missed badly on back-to-back jumpers with just over six minutes remaining, the question lingered.
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| Jan 31, 2002
The NBA suspended Sacramento Kings forward Chris Webber for one game and fined him $7,500 for popping Jazz center Jarron Collins in the head with an elbow Saturday at the Delta Center.
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| Jan 31, 2002
As he does once or twice a season, Karl Malone reached another scoring milestone Wednesday.
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| Jan 31, 2002
Charles Oakley's consistent critique this season, one he reprised Wednesday night, is that teams can't win playing 10 to 12 guys.
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| Jan 30, 2002
Karl Malone would rather be picked to the All-Star team by the coaches than the fans anyway.
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| Jan 30, 2002
The Associated Press reports:
"Sacramento Kings forward Chris Webber was suspended Wednesday for one game and fined $7,500 for deliberately throwing an elbow to the head of Utah's Jarron Collins last week.
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| Jan 30, 2002
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan spent a good portion of Monday"s game with the Miami Heat hollering at Quincy Lewis.
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| Jan 30, 2002
Karl Malone is back in the NBA All-Star Game.
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| Jan 30, 2002
After missing four of the past six games with tendinitis in his left knee, the Jazz placed backup point guard John Crotty on the injured list before Monday"s game.
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| Jan 29, 2002
While Karl Malone will be going to his 14th All-Star Game, Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics and Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks were among seven reserves picked Tuesday for their first trips.
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| Jan 29, 2002
Guard John Crotty joined Donyell Marshall on the injured list Monday, and the Jazz announced they'll sign Rusty LaRue to a 10-day contract on Tuesday, provided he passes a physical.
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| Jan 29, 2002
Sometimes a team can turn things around with a little luck, or a gamble that pays off.
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| Jan 29, 2002
This was supposed to be the new and improved Heat.
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| Jan 29, 2002
This was supposed to be the new and improved Heat.
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| Jan 29, 2002
HIGH POINT
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan went with an eight-man rotation and it paid off.
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| Jan 29, 2002
Bryon Russell was not making any shots, and the Jazz were not winning any games.
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| Jan 29, 2002
It wasn"t anything Jerry Sloan thought about before hand but for one night anyway, the Jazz youth movement was in full swing.
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| Jan 28, 2002
Karl Malone was in a pensive mood Saturday evening, pondering the fate of his team after a second discouraging loss in a row that afternoon.
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| Jan 28, 2002
If coach Jerry Sloan ever wished he was 30 years younger, it was probably Saturday during the Jazz's humiliating 114-90 loss to Sacramento.
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| Jan 28, 2002
The point is not that DeShawn Stevenson cannot make a good one.
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| Jan 28, 2002
Will the stars re-align in 2002? Maybe.
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| Jan 27, 2002
Initially, it appeared as if history would repeat Saturday afternoon at the Delta Center.
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| Jan 27, 2002
Believe it or not, the Jazz actually looked good when no one was watching.
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| Jan 27, 2002
The Sacramento Kings embarrassed the Jazz on Thursday night at Arco Arena.
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| Jan 27, 2002
Another cruel chapter of a tale of two teams was slammed into the books Saturday evening at the Delta Center, the plot now becoming as lopsided as a Morganna cartwheel, as a set of Firestones, as a Bryon Russell jump shot.
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| Jan 27, 2002
The rematch leaves no doubt.
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| Jan 27, 2002
The man with the gray hair and even grayer face has never been here before, a stranger in a strange land.
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| Jan 26, 2002
One problem for the Jazz is the team that whipped them Thursday night — the same team they play again this afternoon at the Delta Center — is awfully dang good.
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| Jan 26, 2002
The Jazz have been very up and down lately.
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| Jan 25, 2002
A bruised and swollen left knee kept John Crotty from playing at Sacramento on Thursday night, marking the third time in five games the Jazz's backup point guard has been unable to go.
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| Jan 25, 2002
A 33-point loss, their biggest of the season.
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| Jan 25, 2002
The Spurs can only hope that holds true.
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| Jan 25, 2002
Watching Kings coach Rick Adelman's screams, spins and exhortations during the first half, one might have thought his squad was in trouble Thursday night -- not leading by 19 points at halftime.
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| Jan 25, 2002
Thursday afternoon, The Salt Lake Tribune learned the Jazz were actively working to make a deal before the NBA's Feb.
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| Jan 24, 2002
Utah Jazz fans, do not dismay.
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| Jan 24, 2002
It took a desperation shot to get Steve Smith going Wednesday night, but before long, the Jazz were desperate to figure out how to stop him.
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| Jan 24, 2002
If John Amaechi showed the same agility, athleticism and motivation on the court that he showed leaving the Jazz locker room Wednesday night, he'd be an All-Star.
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| Jan 24, 2002
Sunrise, sunset.
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| Jan 24, 2002
After giving them two tough games in a week's time, the Jazz are confident they can spar with the San Antonio Spurs.
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| Jan 24, 2002
The old men of the NBA are coming to town.
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| Jan 24, 2002
As the waning minutes of Tuesday's game against New Jersey ticked away, Steve Smith waited patiently on the bench for Spurs coach Gregg Popovich to call his name.
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| Jan 24, 2002
The deafening thud heard in the vicinity of South Temple and 300 West on Wednesday night was the beginning of the second half of the Utah Jazz season.
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| Jan 24, 2002
Somehow, Utah still had a chance.
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| Jan 24, 2002
Smith made all five of his 3-pointers and scored 29 points — on only 10 shots — as the Spurs ended their two-game losing streak by beating Utah for the eighth straight time, 98-92 in front of 19,623 at the Delta Center.
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| Jan 23, 2002
Midway through the Jazz's 2001-2002 season, so much is so down for the Jazz.
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| Jan 23, 2002
It could be better.
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| Jan 23, 2002
After all these years, it's time to change the question.
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| Jan 23, 2002
The Jazz might have a hard time believing it, but San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich thinks his team lacks toughness.
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| Jan 22, 2002
And so the Not Quite There tour continues.
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| Jan 22, 2002
At the halfway point of the Jazz's 2001-2002 season, some truths still seem to hold up.
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| Jan 22, 2002
"You don't get any whistles until you improve," the Warriors coach said.
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| Jan 22, 2002
Steve Luhm of the Salt Lake Tribune writes, "Bryon Russell isn't making many shots these days .
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| Jan 22, 2002
Warriors point guard Larry Hughes is convinced that his slumping team is close to a breakthrough.
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| Jan 22, 2002
Bryon Russell isn't making many shots these days.
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| Jan 21, 2002
Cheryl Ford's emergence as a powerful part of the Louisiana Tech women's basketball team may be of interest to NBA fans who follow her father, Jazz star Karl Malone.
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| Jan 21, 2002
They exit Moody Coliseum together, strolling side-by-side.
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| Jan 21, 2002
With so many home games to plan for over the course of an 82-game NBA season, franchise employees can't always keep up with the Jazz as much as they'd like when the team is on the road.
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| Jan 21, 2002
JAZZ UPDATE: Center Jarron Collins, the rookie from Stanford, gives an infusion of youth to one of the oldest teams in the league with 39-year-old John Stockton (he turns 40 in March), 38-year-old Karl Malone and 36-year-old John Starks.
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| Jan 21, 2002
The NBA draft in June separated twins Jarron and Jason Collins for the first time in their lives.
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| Jan 21, 2002
Two of the oldest players in the NBA have started every game for the Jazz this season, spending a good portion of their time playing alongside some of the league"s youngest players.
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| Jan 21, 2002
Today at The Arena in Oakland, Calif.
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| Jan 21, 2002
Only a few years ago, Karl Malone could not have imagined the kind of afternoon he enjoyed on Sunday.
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| Jan 20, 2002
DALLAS - Mavericks coach Don Nelson admitted it was difficult for him to remain focused leading up to Saturday's game against the Utah Jazz.
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| Jan 20, 2002
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar set the record with a sky-hook.
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| Jan 20, 2002
Jazz officials will meet this week to hammer out working details with a man who might hold the keys to making Andrei Kirilenko, DeShawn Stevenson, Quincy Lewis and others much better than they are.
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| Jan 20, 2002
Mavericks coach Don Nelson admitted it was difficult for him to remain focused leading up to Saturday's game against the Utah Jazz.
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| Jan 20, 2002
There are certain undeniable truths in life: Winter means cold weather.
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| Jan 20, 2002
Teams that get caught up in the catch-up game too often live dangerously.
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| Jan 20, 2002
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan's day started miserably and got worse.
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| Jan 20, 2002
The Dallas Mavericks have gotten so accustomed to playing without Michael Finley that they were almost able to blow out the Utah Jazz with their injured team leader watching in street clothes.
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| Jan 19, 2002
As a second-round draft choice trying to make a veteran team, Jarron Collins knew that the best way to get noticed wasn't by trying to score a lot of points.
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| Jan 19, 2002
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that John Stockton and Karl Malone will run in the Olympic Torch Relay, but their specific role hasn't been announced yet.
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| Jan 19, 2002
Add veteran shooting guard John Starks to the Jazz's growing cast of walking-wounded.
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| Jan 19, 2002
Will Russell be spending the Winter Olympics away from Salt Lake?
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| Jan 18, 2002
In a departure from seasons past, the Jazz went into this season with only two pure point guards.
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| Jan 18, 2002
Perhaps it was the picture of John Stockton with a cotton-wad up his nose, blocking the blood.
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| Jan 18, 2002
It hurt much worse, Martin concedes, to be tagged as fragile last March, when a fractured right leg halted what might have been a Rookie of the Year season with the Nets.
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| Jan 18, 2002
Duncan scored 10 of his 35 points in the final quarter as the Spurs overtook the Jazz to beat their longtime rivals for the seventh straight time.
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| Jan 18, 2002
The game was all but over and Karl Malone didn't want to hear it.
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| Jan 18, 2002
No disrespect intended, but the Jazz would just as soon forget the Alamodome.
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| Jan 17, 2002
Going into Wednesday night's contest at the Delta Center, the Utah Jazz and the Seattle SuperSonics were enjoying eerily similar seasons.
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| Jan 17, 2002
Matchups, system, karma, whatever, sometimes a team just owns another team.
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| Jan 17, 2002
The idea was to sit back and enjoy, one more time, the seemingly age-old, cat-and-mouse confrontation between the old-guard guys: the Jazz's John Stockton vs.
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| Jan 17, 2002
There are few certainties in life, but Jazz-SuperSonics seems to be one.
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| Jan 17, 2002
Now comes the real test.
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| Jan 17, 2002
-- The Jazz knew they were gambling when they entered the season with just two point guards on their active roster.
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| Jan 17, 2002
The Sonics exuded confidence during their best stretch of the season.
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| Jan 17, 2002
The Sonics exuded confidence during their best stretch of the season.
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| Jan 16, 2002
To some observers it appears Jazz star Karl Malone is pacing himself through games — holding a bit back early so he is sure to have something extra left late.
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| Jan 16, 2002
When: Today, 6 p.
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| Jan 16, 2002
Nate McMillan returned to Seattle on Monday to lead Sonics practice yesterday, his expressionless face and attention riveted on his players as they prepared for tonight's game at Utah.
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| Jan 16, 2002
More than any other player in the NBA, Karl Malone knows what Shaquille O"Neal went through Saturday night.
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| Jan 16, 2002
Power Forward will be on display tonight.
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| Jan 15, 2002
With only one sellout in 21 home games, fans aren't exactly flocking to the Delta Center these days.
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| Jan 15, 2002
For years, the buzzards circled the Utah Jazz.
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| Jan 15, 2002
NBA executives had guys like Chris Andersen in mind when they formed a development league this season.
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| Jan 15, 2002
Once again, the Jazz were allowing an opponent to hang around Monday night at the Delta Center.
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| Jan 15, 2002
The bad news is the Nuggets lost their 12th consecutive road game, 106-97 to the Utah Jazz on Monday night at the Delta Center.
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| Jan 15, 2002
NBA executives had guys like Chris Andersen in mind when they formed a development league this season.
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| Jan 14, 2002
Monday, January 14, 2002 - Malone scored a game-high 23 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and dished out seven assists Saturday night during Utah's double-overtime loss to visiting Memphis.
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| Jan 14, 2002
Some nights, the Jazz's starters play with purpose from beginning to end.
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| Jan 14, 2002
In four of the Jazz's five outings so far in 2002, they have trailed when coach Jerry Sloan made his first substitution of the game:
vs.
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| Jan 14, 2002
Tom McEachin of the Ogden Standard Examiner writes, "[Scott Padgett] played in just four of Utah's first eight games.
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| Jan 14, 2002
Steve Luhm of the Salt Lake Tribune writes, "These are certainly trying times for the Denver Nuggets, but assistant general manager David Fredman knows it could be worse.
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| Jan 13, 2002
Rookie Jarron Collins' contract with the Jazz became guaranteed for the season last week, and for good reason.
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| Jan 13, 2002
The Jazz approached their matchup with the self-described "worst team in the league" Saturday night like they wanted to be home watching the NFL playoffs on television.
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| Jan 13, 2002
The Vancouver Grizzlies needed six seasons and 23 tries to beat the Jazz just once.
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| Jan 13, 2002
Cheap shot of the week?
That's easy.
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| Jan 13, 2002
What seemed unlikely just last month now appears to be a sure thing: The Jazz will make the playoffs.
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| Jan 13, 2002
John Starks has played in the NBA long enough to have been a hero and a goat, and he knows the difference.
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| Jan 13, 2002
The Jazz played Memphis on Saturday night without starting small forward Donyell Marshall, who is nursing a bruised hip.
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| Jan 12, 2002
In a six-night span, the Jazz edged Chicago and Houston in tug-of-war games that were not decided until the final moments.
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| Jan 12, 2002
The Jazz are never quite sure what"s going to happen when rookie Andrei Kirilenko steps on the court, but they usually like what they get.
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| Jan 12, 2002
A bruised right hip has Jazz starting small forward Donyell Marshall listed as "questionable" for tonight's game against Memphis.
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| Jan 12, 2002
He scored 30 points the other night.
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| Jan 11, 2002
Not everything went the Jazz's way Thursday night.
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| Jan 11, 2002
Unlike Sixers coach Larry Brown, who was unhappy with the way his star player was treated at the Delta Center a couple weeks ago, Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich wouldn't bite on an opportunity to vent on the officials.
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| Jan 11, 2002
Things got a little turned around Thursday night at the Delta Center.
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| Jan 11, 2002
Steve Francis had put on a show, rare and spectacular.
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| Jan 11, 2002
A game ultimately won by the Utah Jazz was decided early in the third quarter by referee Joey Crawford, according to Clutch of Clutchcity.
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| Jan 10, 2002
From his first interview with Kevin O"Connor in 1999, Jazz owner Larry H.
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| Jan 10, 2002
The NBA rewarded rookie Andrei Kirilenko on Wednesday.
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| Jan 10, 2002
I was with the family at the Epcot Center three summers ago, near the end of one of those OK-we-saw-it, can-we-go-home-now? kind of days.
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| Jan 10, 2002
The commitment shown to Kevin O'Connor on Wednesday means a man who has bounced around climbing the career ladder for most of his professional life can finally settle down now.
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| Jan 10, 2002
Even for someone who rushed to the NBA by the time he was 19, things have moved quickly.
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| Jan 9, 2002
They're the new fan darlings, the shock troops Jazz coach Jerry Sloan sends into games to stir things up, energize a stagnant offense.
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| Jan 9, 2002
Based on current fan balloting, the Jazz won't have any starters in this year's NBA All-Star Game.
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| Jan 9, 2002
The Jazz were down early, seemingly headed for a loss.
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| Jan 9, 2002
The Deseret News reports that Jazz Vice President of Basketball Operations Kevin O'Connor has been given a multi-year contract extension.
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| Jan 9, 2002
HIGH POINT
Scott Padgett stayed hot.
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| Jan 9, 2002
Utah Jazz guard John Stockton, left, chases Phoenix Suns guard Stephon Marbury, right, asMarbury drives to the basket in the second quarter Tuesday, Jan.
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| Jan 9, 2002
It wasn"t that long ago Scott Padgett couldn"t get into a game.
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| Jan 9, 2002
The bench party that began in Portland two weeks ago is still going strong for the Utah Jazz.
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| Jan 8, 2002
One peek at their handy-dandy pocket schedule should be all it takes to make the Jazz drool.
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| Jan 8, 2002
Anyone who saw the look on Jerry Colangelo"s face when those home runs sailed out of Yankee Stadium during the World Series would have recognized his facial expressions this past week.
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| Jan 8, 2002
John Crotty has seen the disrespect in the eyes of opponents and he hates it.
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| Jan 8, 2002
Andrei Kirilenko comments on the last two games, versus the Minnesota Timberwolves and Chicago Bulls in an interview with the Sport Express, translated by Serge of the message boards.
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| Jan 7, 2002
For a few moments, Scott Padgett was back at the University of Kentucky.
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| Jan 6, 2002
Jazz rookie Andrei Kirilenko recently did a question-and-answer session with the Russian sports magazine Sports Express.
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| Jan 6, 2002
It wasn't exactly a picture of perfection.
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| Jan 6, 2002
History will forever link the Jazz and Bulls for the back-to-back championship series they staged in 1997 and 1998.
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| Jan 6, 2002
Scott Padgett could have lived without the final seconds of regulation.
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| Jan 5, 2002
He stomped.
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| Jan 5, 2002
Somewhere between the first half and the final few minutes Friday night, the bellows of "Wally!" from the Timberwolves bench gave way to the chants of "Wal-ly! Wal-ly!" from the Target Center rafters.
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| Jan 5, 2002
With 19 points and 15 rebounds Friday night, Kevin Garnett was not exactly kind to the Jazz.
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| Jan 5, 2002
A couple of cold starts and one very hot scorer conspired Friday night to do in the Jazz, who looked less than lukewarm in their first game back after a five-day break.
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| Jan 5, 2002
According to the NBA schedule, the Jazz played in Minnesota on Friday night.
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| Jan 5, 2002
The third part of an interview with Andrei Kirilenko, translated by Serge of the message boards.
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| Jan 4, 2002
The notion of playing Greg Ostertag for the sake of playing him is something Jazz coach Jerry Sloan has passed on long ago.
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| Jan 4, 2002
Jazz coach/gentleman farmer Jerry Sloan was right.
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| Jan 4, 2002
They have been called old.
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| Jan 4, 2002
The weather never started getting rough, the tiny ship wasn't really tossed.
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| Jan 4, 2002
They have been called old.
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| Jan 3, 2002
More of the interview with Andrei Kirilenko in the Sports-Express, translated by Serge of the message boards.
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| Jan 3, 2002
Tim Buckley of the Deseret News writes that Karl Malone is the NBA's new favorite target.
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| Jan 2, 2002
In an interview with the Russian paper Sports-Express (translated by Serge of the JazzFanz.
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| Jan 2, 2002
SALT LAKE CITY -- Karl Malone is the biggest sports name in town.
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| Jan 2, 2002
Steve Luhm of the Salt Lake Tribune writes that the Jazz have recently been awakened from their troubles.
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