Dressed in street clothes, 2001 first-round draft choice Raul Lopez watched Utah's Rocky Mountain Revue win over Portland on Friday night from the Jazz bench.
     
Still needing approval from FIBA (basketball's international governing body) of his recent buyout from a contract with Real Madrid of the Spanish League before he can sign with the Jazz, Lopez is now headed home to practice with his national team in preparation for the upcoming World Basketball Championship in Indianapolis.

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Jazz center Jarron Collins, a restricted free agent, is assuming he will be with the Jazz next season.
     
Still unsigned, he says he dearly wants to return to Utah in 2002-2003 ? and won't even talk about other teams that may have contacted him so far this summer.
     
Jarron's twin brother Jason, of the New Jersey Nets, however, isn't so shy.
     
"I know the Knicks have definitely expressed interest (in Jarron)," Jason told the New York Post earlier this week.