What a weird night.
   
Of course, that's what you come to expect in New Orleans, though usually it's after one too many hurricanes and an impaired decision to see just what all those places on Bourbon Street are showing "live on stage."
   
The Jazz instead encountered basketball incongruity on their first regular-season trip to their old home in the 23 years since they left for Utah. The NBA sold the season-opening game Wednesday in prodigal terms, with the Jazz returning to their hometown to meet the team that has finally replaced them -- supposedly to a public starved to have pro basketball again.