A lack of playing time in Game 1 of the Jazz-Rockets series left Utah's highest-paid player in tears.

"I want to play 48 minutes," Andrei Kirilenko said Sunday after practice in Houston. "I want to play and I want to be on the court."

Kirilenko, who was paid $12.3 million this season, played 16 minutes and scored two points in Utah's 84-75 loss to Houston on Saturday. Game 2 is Monday night in Houston.

Coach Jerry Sloan yanked the Russian from the lineup after he missed a jump shot from nine feet.