Monday's season-ending playoff loss to Sacramento in the Delta Center was the last NBA game ever for Utah guard John Stockton.
Or not.
You don't think he'd tell anyone in a somber Jazz post-loss locker room what his plans might be now that his most recent one-year contract has played itself out, do you?
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Throughout the regular season, the Jazz were one of the worst turnover-committing teams in the NBA, committing an average of 16.5 per game.
In their final game of the postseason, Monday's first-round Game 4 playoff loss to the Sacramento Kings, miscues again doomed the Jazz.
Utah committed 21 turnovers in all, and the Kings converted them into 30 points in a 91-86 victory.
"Any time you play a team that is this talented (and commit that many turnovers) you don't have much of a chance to win," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said.
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If Greg Ostertag played during the regular season anything even remotely close to the way he played in the Jazz's playoff-ending loss to Sacramento on Monday night, he'd be much more appreciated in Utah than he is.
The Jazz backup center seems to know it, too.
"I haven't played worth a damn this year," Ostertag said Monday night. "Y'all saw it."
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Jazz Apr 2002 Archive
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Deseret News | Apr 30, 2002
Having finally put away a Utah Jazz team that simply refused to expire on command, Sacramento Kings forward Chris Webber wasn't sure what to make of the experience.
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Deseret News | Apr 30, 2002
If you squinted just right — or hoped enough — while watching Monday night's NBA playoff game between the Utah Jazz and the Sacramento Kings, you could sense some similarities to the last time a bright spotlight shone on a Delta Center sporting event.
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Deseret News | Apr 30, 2002
After Game 1, Vlade Divac declared the Jazz "done.
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Deseret News | Apr 30, 2002
Weird thing is, it was interesting.
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ESPN | Apr 30, 2002
Here's a completely subjective look at five players who are, for various reasons, always worth watching:
Donyell Marshall, Jazz: Just because I remember his Warrior days, when they didn't know what to do with him and he didn't seem bothered by it.
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ESPN | Apr 30, 2002
All along, Vlade Divac believed the Sacramento Kings would outlast the Utah Jazz.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 30, 2002
Vroom, vroom.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 30, 2002
The first time he shot the ball.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 30, 2002
Chris Webber: "I'm not taking any negatives from this series.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 30, 2002
Nobody said a possible run to the championship was going to be easy.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 30, 2002
There, all done.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 30, 2002
If you're a Utah Jazz fan, despite the disappointment of a second straight first-round playoff defeat, you should still be mighty proud of your team today.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 30, 2002
It couldn't have been much closer, but Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko eked out a spot on the NBA"s All-Rookie first team.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 30, 2002
Peja Stojakovic's nightmare shooting slump came to a rousing end Monday night.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 30, 2002
Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko became the club's first All-Rookie selection in 16 years Monday, barely making the five-player first team.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 30, 2002
Glory Hallelujah.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 30, 2002
Anyone who knows the Jazz, who knows John Stockton and Karl Malone, who knows the tenacity of coach Jerry Sloan and who knows the franchise -- how ever early it has exited from the playoffs before -- shouldn't be surprised that Utah fought to the bitter end Monday night against Sacramento.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 30, 2002
Another close game, another close loss.
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| Apr 29, 2002
John Stockton insists he hasn't given it any thought yet, but tonight's game could be the last of his storied 18-year NBA career.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 29, 2002
If the Kings didn't already have a sense of urgency regarding tonight's opportunity to end their first-round playoff series against the Utah Jazz, they might have found some added motivation following an NBC promotion Sunday.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 29, 2002
Say what you will about Vlade Divac, that he could apply a little more elbow grease around the basket, contribute a few more field goals and assists than he did Saturday (none of each) and perhaps should consider curbing his tongue when the refs are within hearing distance.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 29, 2002
The moment arrived as if cued by the God of Suggested Themes.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 29, 2002
Bobby Jackson, Scot Pollard and Hedo Turkoglu aren't exactly the aptly named "Bench Mob" of the Kings teams a few seasons ago.
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Standard-Examiner | Apr 29, 2002
Peja Stojakovic, the Sacramento Kings" second-leading scorer this season, averaged 21 points a game to earn his first All-Star selection.
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Standard-Examiner | Apr 29, 2002
Donyell Marshall didn"t get a crack at the Sacramento Kings until late in the regular season but once he did, everything changed.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 29, 2002
For the Jazz, Game 4 of their first-round playoff series against Sacramento could be their last one this season.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 29, 2002
This playoff series between the Jazz and Kings is evolving into a passing of the torch, a postseason handoff from one small-market wonder to another.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 29, 2002
Bryon Russell and the Jazz are waiting for his breakout game.
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Standard-Examiner | Apr 28, 2002
Chris Webber heard the call of the fans.
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Standard-Examiner | Apr 28, 2002
Finishing games, or rather their frustrating inability to do so, is an agonizing weakness that has haunted the Utah Jazz all season long.
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Standard-Examiner | Apr 28, 2002
The search continues.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 28, 2002
Who'd have thunk it?
The team with one of the sweetest offenses in memory is shooting an abysmal 85 of 223 (38.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 28, 2002
It pretty much comes down to this: The Kings won't let Peja Stojakovic bail out.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 28, 2002
Mike Bibby played the Jazz like a set of drums, tap, tap, tapping until he found the rhythm, the preferred mood, the timely stroke.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 28, 2002
The Kings better not need any more luck, no matter how far they go in the playoffs.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 28, 2002
The Sacramento Kings can count their lucky stars -- and they know they were lucky Saturday afternoon -- that they drew the Utah Jazz in the first round of the playoffs.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 28, 2002
JAZZ PLAYOFF NOTES
Ballyhooed during the regular season and maligned for the last week, the Sacramento Kings' bench players finally made a playoff contribution.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 28, 2002
It was grim.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 28, 2002
John Stockton fouled out of an NBA playoff game for the first time his illustrious, 18-year career.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 28, 2002
With 1:19 left in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series with Sacramento on Saturday, the Jazz could not have been in better position.
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Deseret News | Apr 28, 2002
It's the kind of glaring statistic that leaps off the page of a boxscore, the sort of disparity that makes one wonder how on earth the game ended up close.
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Deseret News | Apr 28, 2002
Though he fouled out, went 0-for-5 from the field and was the focal point of Jazz fan ire Saturday, Kings center Vlade Divac left the Delta Center content.
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Deseret News | Apr 28, 2002
Besides being upset with themselves for their Game 3 playoff loss to Sacramento, the Jazz didn't seem real thrilled with the refs Saturday.
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Deseret News | Apr 28, 2002
How many times over the years have Jazz fans seen John Stockton hit the big shot at the end of a game? For the past 17 years, Stockton has been one of the best clutch shooters in the NBA.
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Deseret News | Apr 28, 2002
Strange as it seems, improbable as it sounds, it is small things that have been the Utah Jazz's downfall in this year's NBA playoffs.
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Deseret News | Apr 28, 2002
Like a coup waiting to happen, the team that couldn't come close to Sacramento in the regular season nudged close to the Kings.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 27, 2002
According to Kings reserve forward Chucky Brown, his team's candy has been taken by the Utah Jazz in the first two games of their best-of-five Western Conference playoff series.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 27, 2002
Not to go all Mister Rogers on you at a time when blood-lust and personalized sets of mace cans are swinging into postseason vogue, but has anybody seen the joy?
You remember it.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 27, 2002
Short shorts.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 27, 2002
When the Maloof family took over the Kings in 1999, they got a call from Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller, who had prophetic advice:
"He said (the NBA) is unlike any business because your livelihood is in the hands of 25-year-olds," said Joe Maloof, who runs the Kings with his brother Gavin.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 27, 2002
The way adjustments are made over the course of a series, playoff basketball often gets compared to a chess match.
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Deseret News | Apr 27, 2002
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan has used just 10 of his 12 players for each of the first two games of Utah's opening-round playoff series with Sacramento, leaving second-year guard DeShawn Stevenson and veteran big man John Amaechi to sit and watch.
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Deseret News / Sacramento Bee | Apr 27, 2002
In the course of an otherwise disappointing Utah Jazz season, Andrei Kirilenko, the Twiggy-thin rookie with the thick Russian accent — and heavy on the humor — may have pulled off the coup of a generation.
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Deseret News | Apr 27, 2002
I was watching a "Biography" piece about actor Jack Palance the other night on A&E.
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Deseret News | Apr 27, 2002
Getting Karl Malone to watch game film is a lot like dragging macho men to a chick flick.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 27, 2002
The Jazz have Sacramento in a "trick-box," as coach Jerry Sloan likes to say.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 27, 2002
OK, wake up, everybody.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 27, 2002
In the NBA, there are always games within the game.
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ESPN | Apr 26, 2002
Let's not forget .
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ESPN | Apr 26, 2002
The Utah Jazz hasn't grabbed control of the first-round matchup against the heavily favored Sacramento Kings.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 26, 2002
There may not be a more emotional team in the land than the Kings.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 26, 2002
The first-round playoff series between the Kings and Utah Jazz is suddenly intriguing for some and downright scary for others.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 26, 2002
Problem: Great, now the Utah Jazz is in the driver's seat and the Kings have punted home-court advantage.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 26, 2002
In the course of an otherwise disappointing Utah Jazz season, Andrei Kirilenko, the Twiggy-thin rookie with the thick Russian accent -- and heavy on the humor -- may have pulled off the coup of a generation.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 26, 2002
Dick Motta has a message for two of his prized pupils, the old coach still passing the good word.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 26, 2002
Not only did the Jazz hush the loudest arena on the NBA with their Game 2 victory at Sacramento, they managed to bring a little electricity to their own home court.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 26, 2002
Jerry Sloan might not find any satisfaction in the compliment, but Sacramento star Chris Webber says the Jazz coach deserves credit for the Kings" success.
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Deseret News | Apr 26, 2002
Because the first two playoff games were in Sacramento, you undoubtedly watched from the comfort of your living room.
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Deseret News | Apr 26, 2002
All the talk between Games 1 and 2 of the first NBA playoff series between the Jazz and the Kings — besides Sacramento center Vlade Divac mumbling something about the Jazz being "done" and Utah suggesting otherwise — centered on how supposedly physical things had become.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 26, 2002
Andrei Kirilenko enjoyed his second NBA playoff game much more than the first.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 26, 2002
During Sacramento's 89-86 victory in Game 1, Malone apparently sensed his teammates were being hesitant.
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| Apr 25, 2002
No, Vlade, that was their best shot.
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Yahoo! | Apr 25, 2002
Charlotte won a drawing with Orlando and Utah for the 17th pick, and Orlando then edged Utah for the 18th selection, leaving the Jazz with the 19th pick.
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Yahoo! | Apr 25, 2002
Karl Malone and the Utah Jazz are not ignoring the script.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 25, 2002
Film does not lie, and Wednesday afternoon each member of the Kings was subjected to the misery that was Game 2 against the Utah Jazz.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 25, 2002
Right, let's tally up the damage, since "lost a lousy game on a weeknight in the first round" doesn't precisely cover it.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 25, 2002
There were more questions than answers floating around the Kings' practice facility Wednesday afternoon.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 25, 2002
Reports of their demise having been greatly exaggerated, for only the 8,473rd time in the last calendar year, a prideful roster rose and answered without saying a word, leaving the talking to Vlade Divac and the boldest comment of all to the Arco Arena scoreboard.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 25, 2002
Memo to Vlade Divac: It looks like the Utah Jazz are NOT -- uh, how do you say -- done.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 25, 2002
The Sacramento Kings had probably forgotten all about Greg Ostertag.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 25, 2002
And on the fifth day, they rested.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 25, 2002
The first thing you need to know about Kings backup center Scot Pollard is this: He's not as weird as he looks.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 25, 2002
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan gave his players a morning off Wednesday.
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Yahoo! | Apr 24, 2002
Magic Johnson made the headlines but also nominated as players were Portland Trail Blazers coach and former 76ers guard Maurice Cheeks, scoring star Adrian Dantley, defensive ace Bobby Jones, seven-time All-Star Chet Walker, who played with the Chicago Bulls and 76ers, and James Worthy, one of the game's greatest fastbreak finishers.
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Yahoo! | Apr 24, 2002
Gasol, a native of Spain, is the first European to win top rookie honors.
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Deseret News | Apr 24, 2002
Jazz rookie Andrei Kirilenko had an off-day in Game 1, though in limited minutes he did help hinder Sacramento small forward Peja Stojakovic.
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Deseret News | Apr 24, 2002
Cowbells a-ringin', the Sacramento Kings' Arco Arena crowd is normally a raucous one.
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Deseret News | Apr 24, 2002
If you're a Kings fan, you could blame the Jazz's surprising 93-86 playoff win Tuesday night on the re-emergence of players such as Andrei Kirilenko, Bryon Russell and Donyell Marshall.
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Deseret News | Apr 24, 2002
Pull the fork out of 'em.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 24, 2002
Jerry Sloan and John Stockton led the undermanned Utah Jazz into the NBA's toughest arena and emerged with a startling victory.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 24, 2002
Didn't someone say this series was over?
Ooops.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 24, 2002
A simple question.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 24, 2002
Then again .
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 24, 2002
So the Kings once beat the Utah Jazz by 33 points this season .
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 24, 2002
The Kings would have believed a million other things before this: That their offense has begun to resemble that of the New York Knicks.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 24, 2002
Sacramento's vaunted bench was a no-show again on Tuesday.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 24, 2002
Arctic glaciers move faster than the Utah-Sacramento playoff game Tuesday night.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 24, 2002
It wasn't a beautiful thing.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 24, 2002
Almost unanimously, the Kings credit their playoff experience against the Jazz in 1999 as the start of their rise to the NBA's elite level.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 24, 2002
The series nobody thought the Jazz could win turned in their favor Tuesday night.
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ESPN | Apr 23, 2002
Rarely does a player miss two chances to send a playoff game into overtime and walk away standing somehow taller in the mind's eye.
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Deseret News | Apr 23, 2002
If the Kings were worried about Vlade Divac lighting a fire under the Jazz with his "They're done" statement, they can relax.
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Deseret News | Apr 23, 2002
While managing the legendarily dreadful 1963 Mets, Casey Stengel at one point lamented: "Can't anybody here play this game?"
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan hasn't reached that point, but he is wondering — to paraphrase: "Can't anybody here shoot this ball?"
If not for some woeful perimeter shooting — a failing that has plagued the Jazz all season — they might be 1-0 in their first-round playoff series against the Sacramento Kings, a series that resumes Tuesday night at Arco Arena.
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Deseret News | Apr 23, 2002
The rest of the Kings are being a little more careful with what they say than Vlade Divac has.
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Deseret News | Apr 23, 2002
His first NBA playoff experience was Saturday, making jitters a reasonable explanation for his Game 1 struggles.
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Deseret News | Apr 23, 2002
The DJ on the clock radio, last Saturday morning, informed me the playoffs were about to begin.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 23, 2002
If there's one man especially eager to get things started tonight, it's Vlade Divac.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 23, 2002
This just in from the Department of You Maybe Knew That Already: It's all about the big whistle.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 23, 2002
Basic arithmetic reveals the importance of tonight's Western Conference playoff game between the Kings and the Utah Jazz at Arco Arena.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 23, 2002
Bryon Russell would like to forget Game 1 of the Sacramento series.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 23, 2002
Bulletin-board fodder rarely works beyond high school or college, but for a team like the Jazz, where focus and concentration have been a problem all season, that might be what gets their attention.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 23, 2002
If the Jazz are bothered by an apparent lack of respect from the Kings, it doesn't show.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 23, 2002
Scott Padgett has known his best friend, Mike O'Connell, since grade school.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 23, 2002
Jonathon Severs slips out from behind the sandwich counter at Capitol Cafe, on the corner of J and 13th streets in downtown Sacramento, feeling fine about his place in the universe right now, feeling good about life, thanks, in large part, to a basketball team that just a few short seasons ago was a bane and a curse.
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Deseret News | Apr 22, 2002
A day later, it still didn't feel like a moral victory.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 22, 2002
This is what happens on off days if you're out-of-town media: Before finding the best golf course and watering hole, you scrounge through press clippings to find a morsel to toss to the wolves -- or in this case, the Kings -- to get a juicy sound bite.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 22, 2002
Five players remain.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 22, 2002
The glass half-full: Sacramento leads its first-round playoff series 1-0 over Utah despite having played what easily qualifies as its worst effort at full strength in the past three weeks.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 22, 2002
This is what happens on off days if you're out-of-town media: Before finding the best golf course and watering hole, you scrounge through press clippings to find a morsel to toss to the wolves -- or in this case, the Kings -- to get a juicy sound bite.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 22, 2002
Five players remain.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 22, 2002
The glass half-full: Sacramento leads its first-round playoff series 1-0 over Utah despite having played what easily qualifies as its worst effort at full strength in the past three weeks.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 22, 2002
The NBA requires three wins before declaring a victor in the first round of the playoffs.
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| Apr 22, 2002
The NBA requires three wins before declaring a victor in the first round of the playoffs.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 22, 2002
Andrei Kirilenko has played basketball all over the world, but nothing prepared him for what he experienced Saturday in Sacramento, Calif.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 21, 2002
If the Kings were hoping for a sweet, one-sided little series, for a fast sprint to the opening-round finishing line, they can forget about it.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 21, 2002
And then there was the dagger that didn't miss.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 21, 2002
Whew!
By now, the Kings have probably discarded the "formula" they used to defeat the Utah Jazz 89-86 Saturday afternoon at Arco Arena as Sacramento took a 1-0 lead in the first-round, best-of-five Western Conference playoff series.
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Deseret News | Apr 21, 2002
A week ago, he was stashed on the Jazz's injured list, his future in Utah, and perhaps even the NBA, in peril.
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Deseret News | Apr 21, 2002
For John Starks, the final act was as frustrating as the whole two years.
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Deseret News | Apr 21, 2002
The effort is still there.
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Deseret News | Apr 21, 2002
Four times during the regular season, they said they could play with the Sacramento Kings.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 21, 2002
Quincy Lewis was the most improbable player of all to be on the court for most of the fourth quarter Saturday afternoon.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 21, 2002
In the aftermath of Utah's tense 89-86 loss to Sacramento in Game 1 of their Western Conference playoff series on Saturday, a couple of nagging questions must still linger in the minds of many fans: Was this a moral victory for the Jazz, one which could help boost their confidence for the remainder of this first-round matchup with the heavily favored Kings.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 21, 2002
John Stockton's Arco Arena magic apparently expired in 1999.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 21, 2002
There's an old saying in basketball: You can't run without the ball.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 21, 2002
The Jazz's John Starks spent most of an up-and-down season coming off the bench.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 21, 2002
After the blue lights during the pregame intros had been turned off, after the sweat had been mopped off the floor, after the emotions of the fans here in Sacramento's Arco Arena had been tossed into a blender for 48 minutes on Saturday, after the Kings and Jazz had sumo wrestled and belly-bronced and played Twister with each other through an entire playoff game, flopping and scrumming and colliding, after the Jazz failed to tie the score with two clear shot attempts in the closing seconds, including a three-pointer by John Stockton that dipped into the throat of the basket and then swirled around the rim like a Spalding on a string, after the Jazz had lost 89-86 when another Stockton three barely missed the bottom of the net as time finally huffed and puffed and sputtered out, something was restored to the losers.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 21, 2002
Separated from Sacramento by 17 victories during the regular season, Utah looked as if it did not belong in the same league.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 20, 2002
And so it turns out that the most difficult part is admitting it.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 20, 2002
The Kings have amassed quite a few statistical achievements this season.
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Deseret News | Apr 20, 2002
The Jazz presented about as much of an obstacle for the Kings this season as the rest of the league presented for the Lakers in last year's playoffs.
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Deseret News | Apr 20, 2002
STOCKTON'S MINUTES — It's no secret that since John Crotty went down with an injury, the Jazz's productivity at backup point guard has fallen off.
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Deseret News | Apr 20, 2002
Odds are stacked high against the eighth-seeded Jazz in their quest to upset the NBA Western Conference's No.
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Deseret News | Apr 20, 2002
No team in the NBA gave the Jazz as much trouble as the Kings did during the regular season.
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Deseret News | Apr 20, 2002
In the movie "Dumb and Dumber," chronic goofball Jim Carrey approaches the beautiful Lauren Holly and asks her about the possibility of winning her heart.
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Deseret News | Apr 20, 2002
Erasing the memory of four ugly losses to the Sacramento Kings is like losing weight.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 20, 2002
Any one of four Western Conference teams could win this year's NBA championship.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 20, 2002
That epic seven-game series with the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1988 Western Conference semifinals proved to be a coming of age party for the Utah Jazz.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 20, 2002
It started with an overtime loss to Milwaukee on opening night.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 20, 2002
So, the Jazz today commence their 19th straight playoff run.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 20, 2002
Karl Malone (6-9, 256)Chris Webber (6-10, 245) Webber averages 24.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 20, 2002
The Jazz face two formidable opponents in the first round of the playoffs: the Sacramento Kings and history.
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Deseret News | Apr 19, 2002
The Jazz's participation in the NBA playoffs should come as no great shock.
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| Apr 19, 2002
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 19, 2002
Rain, sleet, snow and dead of night is one thing, but the part about a selfish locker room, teammates out of shape and going down with the ship never came up in the oath.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 19, 2002
Seldom have so many been so willing to be exploited.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 19, 2002
When does the NBA's best regular-season record and four victories over a tough conference opponent mean absolutely nothing?
When you're the Kings and you have to face the Utah Jazz in a first-round, best-of-five playoff series beginning Saturday at Arco Arena.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 19, 2002
The Utah Jazz have had a tough time keeping up with the best in the West this season.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 19, 2002
The Jazz set their 12-man playoff roster on Thursday with two decisions and one surprise.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 19, 2002
For the Jazz to have any chance in their first-round playoff series with the Sacramento Kings, they need to find a way to turn off the turnovers.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 19, 2002
In 11 minutes Wednesday night, Quincy Lewis ended the John Starks era in Utah.
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San Antonio Express-News | Apr 18, 2002
The Spurs had been tied with Midwest rival Dallas going into their respective last games.
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Deseret News | Apr 18, 2002
Disappointed he did not have arthroscopic surgery sooner than he did, Utah Jazz backup point guard John Crotty said Wednesday night his still-painful left knee will render him unavailable to the team during the upcoming NBA playoffs.
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Deseret News | Apr 18, 2002
In future years, the 2002 Jazz may well be the answer to this trivia question: Which team was responsible for the demise of those endless playoff television specials?
The Jazz closed out the regular season Wednesday the way they began nearly six months ago — failing to finish.
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Deseret News | Apr 18, 2002
To a man, the Jazz spoke of starting the NBA playoffs with a clean slate.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 18, 2002
The teams played four times, if you can call it that.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 18, 2002
The Kings did find out they will play the Utah Jazz in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.
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San Antonio Express-News | Apr 18, 2002
It should have come as no surprise that after a preseason filled with uncertainty and a turbulent season, the Spurs waited until their final shot to decide their playoff future.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 18, 2002
Ready or not, the Jazz are Sacramento-bound.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 18, 2002
For a few shining moments, on a cool April night at the Delta Center, it felt like 1997 all over again.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 18, 2002
The Jazz put up a nice fight Wednesday night, but they couldn't figure out a way to beat the San Antonio Spurs.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 18, 2002
Review the numbers, break down the individual matchups, compare each team -- any way you look at it, the Jazz's playoff experience this season is expected to get ugly.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 18, 2002
A rookie point guard from San Antonio via France punched Utah's ticket to Sacramento.
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| Apr 17, 2002
NBA legend Jerry West to NBA old-timer John Stockton: "Please, don't retire.
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USA Today | Apr 17, 2002
The Utah Jazz close out their 17th consecutive winning season Wednesday night at San Antonio.
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Deseret News | Apr 17, 2002
After having fluid drained from his surgically repaired left knee on Monday, Jazz backup point guard John Crotty fully intended to play Tuesday night at Dallas.
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Deseret News | Apr 17, 2002
The Jazz could have made it simple for everyone.
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Star Telegram | Apr 17, 2002
The Mavericks still believe they can win the Midwest Division title.
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San Antonio Express-News | Apr 17, 2002
The Spurs, seeking their second consecutive season series sweep, have won eight straight games over the Jazz .
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Standard Examiner / Associated Press | Apr 17, 2002
Their bid to win the division title is going down to the last day of the season, but the Dallas Mavericks might not have their leading scorer and rebounder for the finale.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 17, 2002
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan continues to search for a smoothly operating rotation.
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Deseret News | Apr 16, 2002
The Jazz on Tuesday put backup point guard John Crotty back on the injured list and activated guard Quincy Lewis from it.
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Deseret News | Apr 16, 2002
With two games to go in their own regular season, the Jazz maintain a half-game lead over Seattle in the battle for seventh place in the NBA's Western Conference.
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Deseret News | Apr 16, 2002
The true incentive for edging Seattle and winning the No.
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Seattle Times | Apr 16, 2002
We basically have stopped playing and are happy with reaching the playoffs," said Coach Nate McMillan, whose Sonics had won four straight on the road against the Lakers.
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Dallas Morning News | Apr 16, 2002
With a fate not completely in their hands, the Mavericks have come to an irrefutable conclusion about their playoff seeding.
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Standard Examiner / Associated Press | Apr 16, 2002
Shaquille O'Neal had 41 points and 11 rebounds, and Kobe Bryant scored 15 of his 19 points in the decisive third quarter Monday night as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Seattle SuperSonics 111-104.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 16, 2002
Only two days remain in the regular season, but the Western Conference playoff picture is still a jumbled mess.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 16, 2002
At the worst possible time, Karl Malone is struggling.
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Deseret News | Apr 15, 2002
Utah Jazz guard John Crotty had fluid drained from his left knee Monday morning, but he's expected to be available for the Tuesday night's game at Dallas.
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Oakland Tribune | Apr 14, 2002
The missed layups, the bad passes, not passing on 2-on-1 fast breaks, defensive breakdowns.
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San Francisco Chronicle | Apr 14, 2002
These are the kind of games you expect the Warriors to bungle -- the late- season matchups with playoff powers.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 14, 2002
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan says it makes sense for John Stockton, 40, and Michael Jordan, 39, to continue playing because they love the game so much.
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Standard Examiner / Associated Press | Apr 14, 2002
John Stockton had 26 points and nine assists as the Utah Jazz moved into a tie for seventh place in the Western Conference, beating the Golden State Warriors 109-101 Saturday night.
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Deseret News | Apr 14, 2002
Before the Utah Jazz even tipped off Saturday night, some of them knew they could move into a tie with Seattle for the seventh spot in the Western Conference standings.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 14, 2002
If John Stockton had known it was going to be like this, he would have turned 40 several years ago.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 13, 2002
Andrei Kirilenko won't win Rookie of the Year honors this season, but the Jazz forward is getting noticed.
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Deseret News | Apr 13, 2002
Jerry Sloan doesn't normally reserve such high praise, or so much playing time, for those so young and inexperienced.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 13, 2002
The Kentucky Derby is three weeks away and Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller does not have a horse entered in the Run for the Roses.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 13, 2002
It's as obvious as using the wrong fork during a black-tie dinner.
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Deseret News | Apr 12, 2002
Tickets for the Jazz's first home game of the 2001-2002 NBA playoffs go on sale 9 a.
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Deseret News | Apr 12, 2002
With one's royal pain subsiding and the other's supposedly acting up, the Jazz have undergone a changing of the guards.
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Deseret News | Apr 12, 2002
For the first time in long time, everything seemed to come together for the Jazz.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 12, 2002
Three weeks past his 40th birthday, John Stockton went 8-for-8 from the field, scored 18 points and handed out 11 assists Thursday night as the Utah Jazz snapped a three-game losing streak by beating Phoenix 97-96.
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The Arizona Republic | Apr 12, 2002
The Suns nearly stole a game from the Utah Jazz, but in the end there was just too much John Stockton and Karl Malone for the Suns to overcome.
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The Arizona Republic | Apr 12, 2002
During a timeout with 1:37 to play Thursday night and the Suns trailing the Utah Jazz 97-88, coach Frank Johnson had a simple message for his team.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 12, 2002
Steve Luhm reports on the Jazz's close win over Phoenix.
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Yahoo! | Apr 11, 2002
The Utah Jazz activated point guard John Crotty on Thursday and placed Rusty LaRue on the injured list with an inflammation of the left shoulder.
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The Arizona Republic | Apr 11, 2002
Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan isn't sure why everybody is making such a fuss over John Stockton's 40th birthday.
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Deseret News | Apr 11, 2002
The Mailman has been a tad dour this week.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 11, 2002
In addition to avoiding a first-round playoff series with the white-hot Sacramento Kings, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan can think of another reason for his players to win games during the final week of the regular season.
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Standard-Examiner | Apr 11, 2002
According to Tom McEachin, the Jazz don't look like they're ready for the playoffs.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 11, 2002
Jerry Sloan is trying a new motivational tactic, writes Steve Luhm.
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Deseret News | Apr 10, 2002
The Sonics had lost.
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Deseret News | Apr 10, 2002
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Los Angeles Times | Apr 10, 2002
There were moments Tuesday night of pure Kobe Bryant, when he was the most athletic man on the floor, on any floor, and when his creativity and ferocity unhinged every jaw in a town unjaded by two other generations of basketball greatness.
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Standard Examiner / Associated Press | Apr 10, 2002
Kobe Bryant scored 12 of his 22 points after Shaquille O'Neal was ejected in the third quarter of a close game Tuesday night, and the Los Angeles Lakers rolled to a 112-82 victory over the Utah Jazz.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 10, 2002
Given a perfect opportunity to beat the Lakers on Tuesday night, the Jazz meekly declined.
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Deseret News | Apr 9, 2002
Do you wonder how much difference there is between the Jazz and the best teams in the Western Conference?
Monday night, on Utah's home floor, with Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki not playing in the second half and Steve Nash suffering from the stomach flu, the Jazz still couldn't beat the Mavericks.
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Deseret News | Apr 9, 2002
Karl Malone's years-long quest to find Something Else To Do took a 360-degree turn recently when he announced that he wanted to be governor.
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Deseret News | Apr 9, 2002
Speaking after his first game back following a one-game absence due to a swollen right knee, Karl Malone sounded like a camper who has had better outings than the one he had Monday night.
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Deseret News | Apr 9, 2002
The Clippers' loss, significant as it was for Utah, actually was a gift the Jazz perhaps could have done without.
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Star Telegram | Apr 9, 2002
The Mavericks were able to maintain their half-game lead in the Midwest Division over the San Antonio Spurs.
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Dallas Morning News | Apr 9, 2002
Even with their leading scorer, the Mavericks' self-imposed challenge is a daunting one.
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| Apr 9, 2002
According to Tom McEachin, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said he didn't want to back into the playoffs, but that's exactly what happened Monday night.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 9, 2002
All right, Jazz fans, it's time to play NBA playoff roulette, an interesting little game that has passed through the Beehive State every April for the last 19 years.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 9, 2002
The Jazz are winding down the season the same way they began, playing competitively against the top teams -- but still not finding ways to win according to Tom McEachin in this report.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 9, 2002
Gordon Monson does some searching in Utah's latest loss to a Western Conference power.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 9, 2002
The Western Conference playoff picture became more focused Monday night according to Steve Luhm in this report.
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Deseret News | Apr 8, 2002
Starting lineups and other intersting notes about tonight's Utah Jazz game against the Mavericks.
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Deseret News | Apr 8, 2002
They just got through a stretch of seven games in 12 nights, just finished their winless season series with NBA-leading Sacramento Kings.
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Deseret News | Apr 8, 2002
Tim Buckley writes about Karl Malone's missing Saturday's game against the Kings.
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| Apr 8, 2002
Karl Malone has never missed more than two games in any of his 17 NBA seasons.
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Sporting News | Apr 8, 2002
Expectations for the once-contending Jazz have now fallen to the point where eight-point home losses are almost considered moral victories according to Loren Jorgenson in his weekly column.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 8, 2002
Tom McEachin looks at Utah's matchup tonight in Dallas - another playoff foe?
Just what the Jazz need - another high energy, high octane offense headed their way.
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Dallas Morning News | Apr 8, 2002
Jodie Valade writes about the newest Dallas player, Raef LaFrentz and tonight's game against the Utah Jazz (NOTE: Link requires an account with the Dallas Morning News).
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Deseret News | Apr 7, 2002
With a little bit of a different twist, the Deseret News wants to test your knowledge.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 7, 2002
Columnist Gordon Monson writes about Greg Ostertag - Does he really not care what the fans think?
Even after so much troubled water flowed under the bridge, assistant coach Gordie Chiesa said that for the Jazz to reach their peak, they must get their center with the Fred Flintstone tattoo on his leg somehow to "recapture himself, mentally and physically.
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Deseret News | Apr 7, 2002
Andrei Kirilenko is up for Sixth Man of the Year, but Rich Evans reports that the Jazz do better when he starts.
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| Apr 6, 2002
Governor Malone.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 6, 2002
Kings small forward Peja Stojakovic's status had been day-to-day for so long, he might as well have been a calendar.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 6, 2002
The scary-good portion of the program commenced shortly after 7 p.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 6, 2002
If it seems as if the Kings establish a franchise record every time they step onto the court these days, it's because they do.
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Deseret News | Apr 6, 2002
Reality is four losses in as many meetings this season.
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Deseret News | Apr 6, 2002
"The dishing out of suspensions is not my domain," Amaechi, a prim-and-proper Brit, said when asked if he was OK with the one-game suspension Sloan doled following a verbal spat between the two in Utah's Wednesday night win over the Los Angeles Clippers.
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Deseret News | Apr 6, 2002
Not so long ago, the Sacramento Kings were nothing for the Utah Jazz to worry about.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 6, 2002
Tom McEachin writes about the Utah Jazz almost pulled off something magical -- a win over the Kings.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 6, 2002
Dick Rosetta writes about what ifs.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 6, 2002
The Jazz didn't have Karl Malone.
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Deseret News | Apr 5, 2002
Tim Buckley writes about Utah's game with the Kings.
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| Apr 5, 2002
Andrei Kirilenko talks about who the Jazz don't want to face in the playoffs, his great play this month, and his Sixth Man nomination in an interview with the Sport-Express, translated by Serge of the JazzFanz.
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Sacramento Bee | Apr 5, 2002
Karl Malone is not rebounding or scoring as as he once did, but the Kings cannot overlook talent, according to Martin McNeal.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 5, 2002
Tom McEachin writes about how the players (and fans) want to try and avoid the NBA's best team in the first round.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 5, 2002
The Salt Lake Tribune's beat-writer Steve Luhm weighs the importance of tonight's big game against the Sacramento Kings.
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Deseret News | Apr 4, 2002
"You never want to say you're out until you're mathematically out," Eric Piatkowski told Rich Evans in this report.
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Deseret News | Apr 4, 2002
The Utah Jazz have suspended John Amaechi for a game as "another big man is in a little trouble with Jazz coach Jerry Sloan".
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Deseret News | Apr 4, 2002
Tim Buckley writes about Utah's victory over the Los Angeles Clippers Wednesday and the impacts it caused.
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| Apr 4, 2002
Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan suspended reserve center John Amaechi for Friday's game against the Sacramento Kings after the two had a heated exchange late in a victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 4, 2002
It wasn't pretty, but the Jazz got a lot accomplished Wednesday night at the Delta Center.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 4, 2002
The Associated Press writes about the Seattle Supersonics falling in San Antonio moving Utah and Seattle in to a tie in the loss column.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 4, 2002
Apparently there was quite a sideshow to last night's game with the Clippers.
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Los Angeles Times | Apr 4, 2002
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Deseret News | Apr 3, 2002
Malone was hit pretty hard on Tuesday night in Denver and even left the game for a few moments.
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Deseret News | Apr 3, 2002
Tim Buckley tells it like it is in this recap of the disappointing loss to the Nuggets on Tuesday.
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The Denver Post | Apr 3, 2002
Denver beat Utah 98-90 in last nights contest at the Pepsi Center.
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| Apr 3, 2002
Five questions from a Denver sports reporter to Karl Malone about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (or something).
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Apr 3, 2002
The Sonics lost a heartbreaker in Houston last night but luckily for them, Utah screwed up as well.
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| Apr 3, 2002
"Seventeen years ago, if I would have said I would play 10 years, I would have surprised myself," Malone told Aaron Lopez of the Rocky Mountain News Tuesday before Utah played the Denver Nuggets.
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Denver Post | Apr 3, 2002
Irv Moss writes about how the Nuggets' route through the season hasn't been along the expressway.
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Rocky Mountain News | Apr 3, 2002
Kyle Ringo writes about how Utah's Sloan is unhappy to see his team get outhustled by Denver.
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Standard Examiner | Apr 3, 2002
The Associated Press writes about how the Jazz are so giving in this non-giving season.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 3, 2002
Ugh! With a stellar opportunity to try and avoid the Sacramento Kings in the first round, the Jazz fall apart.
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HoopsHype | Apr 2, 2002
Stephen Siegel published a Q&A interview with Andrei Kirilenko last week.
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SlamOnline | Apr 2, 2002
Watching him play, it would be easy to assume that Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko is on the wrong team.
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The Denver Post | Apr 2, 2002
Marc Spears talks to Jerry Sloan about the differences in the Utah Jazz and the Denver Nuggets since the 1994 playoff match-up.
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Deseret News | Apr 2, 2002
The Utah Jazz are now closer to fifth place out west than they are to missing the playoffs according to Tim Buckley.
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The Rocky Mountain News | Apr 2, 2002
Utah comes to the Pepsi Center to take on the Nuggets tonight.
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Denver Post | Apr 2, 2002
Marc J.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 2, 2002
- Tonight at the Pepsi Center, Denver
- Tip-off: 7 p.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Apr 2, 2002
Steve Luhm writes about the first decent play of Greg Ostertag over a sustained period since .
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Standard Examiner | Apr 2, 2002
Tom McEachin writes about how many scouts seem to think that Andrei Kirilenko could (and will) lead this team very soon.
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HomeCourt Magazine | Apr 1, 2002
Dan Sorenson writes about the classy and funny Andrei Kirilenko.
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Sporting News | Apr 1, 2002
Loren Jorgenson in his weekly Sporting News column.
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