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Count the commissioner neutral on the issue of the Jazz perhaps some day selling their nickname to the team that now toils in the city where Utah's Jazz were born.
"I don't even have a view on that," NBA commissioner David Stern said prior to the Jazz's regular-season opener against the New Orleans Hornets, who have relocated here from Charlotte. "That's up to (Jazz owner) Larry Miller."
But Stern does have a hunch as to whether or not the name will ever be sold.
And that is no-go.
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It is the duty of every newspaper to correct wrongdoings, expose injustices and publish the truth "without fear or favor."
In that light, and in the public interest, I will reveal, for the first time, the truth about Aaron James.
The man is innocent.
He never, ever said he wouldn't play in Utah.
May the rumor end here forever.
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Jazz Oct 2002 Archive
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Deseret News | Oct 31, 2002
Outside New Orleans Arena before the first regular-season NBA game the Big Easy has hosted since 1979, the spirits were at work.
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Times-Picayune | Oct 31, 2002
A standing-room sellout crowd of 17,668 rocked New Orleans Arena with deafening noise as they propelled the Hornets to a 100-75 victory against the Utah Jazz.
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Times-Picayune | Oct 31, 2002
More than an hour before tipoff, fans Morgan Stewart and Rick Laraway stopped dead in their tracks upon spotting an 8-foot-tall tomb marked: "Future Gravesite of the Utah Jazz.
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Times-Picayune | Oct 31, 2002
Karl Malone was in a pensive mood prior to taking on the New Orleans Jazz on Wednesday night.
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Times-Picayune | Oct 31, 2002
The doors of New Orleans Arena didn't swing open in 1999 specifically for Baron Davis.
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Standard-Examiner | Oct 31, 2002
The Utah Jazz on Wednesday exercised their fourth-year option on DeShawn Stevenson, a guard who jumped from high school to the NBA.
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Standard-Examiner | Oct 31, 2002
Baron Davis brought pro basketball back to the Big Easy with a dribbling, passing and shooting exhibition reminiscent of "Pistol Pete" Maravich.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 31, 2002
What a weird night.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 31, 2002
Hornets owner George Shinn wants his franchise to be the first pro team to include a prayer among its pre-game ceremonies.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 31, 2002
PLAYER OF THE GAME
Courtney Alexander
NEW ORLEANS The Hornets' energetic sixth man scored 19 points, 15 of them in the fourth quarter when the Hornets pulled away.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 31, 2002
The Jazz's last exit from Louisiana was voluntary.
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Deseret News | Oct 30, 2002
Like the Pacific, the Midwest Division looks like the Big Two and everybody else.
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Deseret News | Oct 30, 2002
Tuesday morning, the basketball decision was revealed: Twenty-one-year-old DeShawn Stevenson will start at shooting guard for the Jazz in their NBA regular-season opener at New Orleans Wednesday night.
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Deseret News | Oct 30, 2002
About to begin his 29th season calling play-by-play for the Jazz, Hot Rod Hundley has been with the franchise since the beginning.
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Deseret News | Oct 30, 2002
As a senior in high school, Tamia Trufant-Wade could get discount tickets for $5 at Shoe Town to see the New Orleans Jazz.
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Deseret News | Oct 30, 2002
Jerry Sloan suggests little, or nothing at all, should be read into it.
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Times-Picayune | Oct 30, 2002
The celebration will be twofold tonight.
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Times-Picayune | Oct 30, 2002
On October 24, 1974, there were toy trumpets in the hands, and the mouths, of most of the 6,450 fans at Municipal Auditorium.
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Times-Picayuue | Oct 30, 2002
The Hornets are considered one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference, and they have one of the toughest front lines with P.
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Standard-Examiner | Oct 30, 2002
The New Orleans Hornets will retire "Pistol" Pete Maravich's No.
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Standard-Examiner | Oct 30, 2002
How's this for depth? The Jazz bench this season will feature four players who were starters in the NBA a year ago.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 30, 2002
By the Jazz's math, DeShawn Stevenson should be a junior in college right now.
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Deseret News | Oct 29, 2002
Utah brought in several new players during the offseason, but the starting lineup — at least for Wednesday night's opener in New Orleans — will feature familiar faces to fans of last year's Jazz team.
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Deseret News | Oct 29, 2002
From a world away, ex-Jazz guard Quincy Lewis is venting about his experience in Utah.
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Deseret News | Oct 29, 2002
I was only half-way through my question about John Stockton's future when Brigitte David — Interpreter of Dreams, Teller of Fortunes, Oracle of Netherworld — opened her eyes wide and interrupted.
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Deseret News | Oct 29, 2002
The Utah Jazz rose from the French Quarter curb, playing in New Orleans for five seasons from 1974-79 before relocating, nickname and all, to the calm and quiet of Salt Lake City.
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UtahJazz.com | Oct 29, 2002
Utah Jazz Vice President of Basketball Operations, Kevin O'Connor, announced today that the Jazz has placed Curtis Borchardt, broken right foot, and Raul Lopez, torn ACL in left knee, on the injured list.
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Standard-Examiner | Oct 29, 2002
Back in 1984, before a couple of guys named Stockton and Malone had ever suited up for them, the Utah Jazz started an impressive streak that would bring this proud franchise 19 consecutive NBA playoff berths.
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Standard-Examiner | Oct 29, 2002
Old-school basketball is alive and well in the NBA for as long as John Stockton says so.
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Standard-Examiner | Oct 29, 2002
It truly is the end of an era.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 29, 2002
It hasn't even been a year since the torch was extinguished, and already the Jazz are reliving their Olympic experience.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 29, 2002
The NBA returns to New Orleans on Wednesday night when the transplanted Hornets play Utah.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 29, 2002
In its latest effort to improve the game, the NBA will use instant replay this season.
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Deseret News | Oct 28, 2002
If you're a Jazz fan and you don't have a cable or satellite system attached to your TV, your Thursday nights are going to be free this season.
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Deseret News | Oct 28, 2002
Starting lineups are a lot like statistics.
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UtahJazz.com | Oct 28, 2002
Nearly two decades after Karl Malone and John Stockton began their Sisyphean quest for an NBA championship, the duo is back to push the boulder up the hill another season.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 28, 2002
They waived a future Hall of Famer the day after the franchise's inaugural game, fired the coach after a month, missed a chance to take Magic Johnson and once drafted a pregnant woman.
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Deseret News | Oct 27, 2002
In depth look at each player on the 14-man roster.
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Deseret News | Oct 27, 2002
You hear the whispers virtually everywhere.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 27, 2002
As a collection of contracts, the 2002-03 Utah Jazz are already a huge success, maybe even championship caliber.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 27, 2002
Eight simple rules (along with attendant rumination) for staying sane while watching and rooting for the Jazz during the upcoming season .
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| Oct 27, 2002
Phil Miller of the Salt Lake Tribune reports that the Utah Jazz have saved money this off season, but wonders if they have improved.
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Deseret News | Oct 26, 2002
They can't take back the Utah Jazz's NBA nickname, so instead they're borrowing a Jazz franchise icon and claiming him as one of their own.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 26, 2002
If the Midwest Division had a theme song, it would be "Auld Lang Syne.
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Sports Network | Oct 25, 2002
It seems every season, the talk around Utah is if the pick-and-roll brothers, John Stockton and Karl Malone, are going to return for yet another season.
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Deseret News | Oct 25, 2002
For the second time in as many preseason games, Greg Ostertag gave Jazz coach Jerry Sloan something to think about.
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Standard-Examiner | Oct 25, 2002
Greg Ostertag came within four stitches of his first career triple-double Thursday night.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 25, 2002
Now that the Jazz seem to know what the puzzle is supposed to look like, it's time to figure out where all the pieces go.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 25, 2002
Hoping to gauge the Jazz's prospects for this season via a quick snapshot, I watched Calbert Cheaney and Matt Harpring take on Toronto at the Delta Center.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 24, 2002
The Utah Jazz finish their preseason tonight against Toronto.
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Deseret News | Oct 23, 2002
Still looking for work somewhere in the NBA, former Jazz backup point guard John Crotty paid a visit to Utah's team hotel while the club was in New York early this week.
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Deseret News | Oct 23, 2002
After a three-day stay in the Big Apple, it appears the Jazz have come to this conclusion: They have a big problem in the middle.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 23, 2002
Last week, Karl Malone hinted that this season might be his last.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 23, 2002
Matt Harpring scored 13 points as the Utah Jazz held the New York Knicks to just 24 percent shooting in the first half of a 94-89 exhibition victory on Tuesday night.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 23, 2002
Greg Ostertag pondered the nearly depleted month like a college student with a term paper due.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 22, 2002
The Jazz will retire Jeff Hornacek's number next month.
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Deseret News | Oct 22, 2002
Four up.
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Deseret News | Oct 21, 2002
With eight players in the final year of their respective contracts a season ago, it is little wonder coach Jerry Sloan thought distractions did in his Jazz during 2001-2002.
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| Oct 21, 2002
Phil Jasner of the Philadelphia Daily News reports that the negotiations between the Sixers and Matt Harpring earlier in the summer are a bit of a mystery.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer | Oct 21, 2002
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Deseret News | Oct 20, 2002
On a day like Saturday during the regular season — second half of a back-to-back set, both games on the road — the Jazz normally would sneak in a few extra winks, gather a little later in the morning and chow down on a catered breakfast before breaking down their evening opponent.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 20, 2002
When Allen Iverson enters a close game with 10 minutes left, it's a good bet a point guard will decide the outcome.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 20, 2002
The Utah Jazz turned to an unlikely hero to rescue them from a four-game preseason losing streak Saturday night.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 20, 2002
Zydrunas Ilgauskas scored 30 points - 20 after halftime - and Darius Miles had 15 points in his home debut for Cleveland, leading the Cavaliers to a 95-91 win Friday night over the Utah Jazz.
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Deseret News | Oct 20, 2002
Jerry Sloan says he is staying out of it.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 20, 2002
These days, the Jazz offense is like a cranky used car and Jerry Sloan is the crusty driver's-ed teacher, screaming at the teenagers about watching the road.
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| Oct 20, 2002
Every Rose has its' thorns
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Deseret News | Oct 18, 2002
Sometime soon, Karl Malone may announce that this, his 18th season with the Jazz, will be his last.
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ESPN | Oct 18, 2002
Karl Malone said Thursday he has "pretty much" decided whether he'll retire after this season, but refused to say when he would officially announce his decision.
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ESPN | Oct 18, 2002
That's going to be one impressive stage in Springfield in 2009.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 18, 2002
Karl Malone hinted strongly Thursday that this season would be his last.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 18, 2002
About the Jazz: They are 2-6 all-time in preseason games against the Cavaliers, but have won two of the past three meetings.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 18, 2002
Karl Malone doesn't speak Latin, but he clearly understands the philosophy carpe diem.
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| Oct 17, 2002
The Jazz aren't at the starting gate yet, but Karl Malone has already contemplated the finish line.
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Deseret News | Oct 17, 2002
On Wednesday, USA Today reported Jazz star Karl Malone is mulling retirement after the coming season.
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USA Today | Oct 17, 2002
Karl Malone, about to start his 18th season with the Utah Jazz, is talking like a player who has made up his mind about retirement.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 17, 2002
Did a kinder, gentler Karl Malone tip his hand about his future in the NBA?
In a Wednesday story on the USA Today web site, Malone told the newspaper"s Greg Boeck that he"s made up his mind about retirement.
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Deseret News | Oct 17, 2002
Four games into the preseason, the Jazz seem behind a bit.
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usatoday | Oct 17, 2002
Could this be the Mailman's final season?
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New York Post | Oct 16, 2002
Mark Jackson, John Stockton's backup for Utah, disagreed with Don Chaney's assertion the Knicks "had no leaders last season" and stuck up for banished Latrell Sprewell.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 16, 2002
If the Jazz are willing to pass the basketball, they showed Tuesday night they can be a pretty good team this year.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 16, 2002
Allan Houston had been in town only a few hours, and already the Knicks star could write a prescription for what ails the Jazz.
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Deseret News | Oct 15, 2002
Fortunately for a guy who has had two go-rounds with the Knicks, Mark Jackson maintains a New York state of mind.
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| Oct 15, 2002
It's too early, of course, to draw conclusions.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 15, 2002
As a human being, I think it was great.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 15, 2002
Long after the lights were turned out from Saturday's public scrimmage at the Delta Center, Jazz guard Raul Lopez hobbled onto the court with a basketball and a chair.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 15, 2002
They are 7-3 all-time in preseason games against New York, and have won three in a row at home and six of the last seven overall.
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Deseret News | Oct 15, 2002
He is one of those well-traveled sorts whose NBA resume ends prematurely, but whose passport is filled with stamps as plentiful as the odds stacked against him.
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Deseret News | Oct 13, 2002
Greg Ostertag's bid to rebound from offseason organ-donor transplant surgery has hit a speed bump.
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Deseret News | Oct 13, 2002
DeShawn Stevenson doesn't doubt he can play.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 13, 2002
Jerry Sloan liked the first 10 minutes or so of Saturday's public scrimmage at the Delta center, but the Jazz coach didn't care much for what followed.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 13, 2002
Greg Ostertag did not participate in the scrimmage, and the possibility is increasing the 7-foot-2 center could open the season on the injured list.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 13, 2002
Jerry Sloan is trying to get DeShawn Stevenson to adapt to his sweat-and-toil teachings.
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Deseret News | Oct 12, 2002
If his surgically rebuilt knee improves as well as his English has the last few months, the Jazz should have no worries whatsoever about Raul Lopez.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 12, 2002
Doctors who performed knee surgery on Jazz rookie Raul Lopez are optimistic he will return to the basketball court stronger and quicker than before.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 12, 2002
Expect Raul Lopez to play basketball for the Utah Jazz.
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Deseret News | Oct 11, 2002
After spending his offseason in limbo, Mark Jackson figures he needs a couple weeks or so before his game comes together.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 11, 2002
Bobby Jackson scored 19 points and Chris Webber added 18 to lead the Sacramento Kings past the Utah Jazz 102-92 Thursday night in an NBA exhibition game.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 11, 2002
You can't have much of a duel if one side disarms.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 11, 2002
The name never sounded as funny as Colorado Nordiques or New Jersey Rockies would have, explaining why the Jazz remained the Jazz when the basketball franchise moved from New Orleans to Salt Lake City in 1979.
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Deseret News | Oct 10, 2002
If you logged on to the Chicago Bulls Web site last week, you might have been hard pressed to recognize the chubby new player in the photo gallery — Donyell Marshall.
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Deseret News | Oct 10, 2002
Reminders come in the form of muscle spasms like those that caused him to sit out practice Wednesday, and simple soreness like that which caused him to miss one session of training camp late last week.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 10, 2002
DeShawn Stevenson kept good company this summer, working out in Los Angeles with the likes of Lakers star Kobe Bryant and Orlando's Tracy McGrady.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 10, 2002
This is their first game in Reno, and the first time they have played in Nevada since they moved a handful of games to Las Vegas in 1985.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 10, 2002
The marvel of a 39-year-old man having virtually no body fat is surpassed only by the absurdity of that man complaining that he is not in shape.
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Deseret News | Oct 9, 2002
On an evening the Jazz's performance left coach Jerry Sloan rather sore, aches and pains were par for the course.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 9, 2002
Antonio Daniels scored 15 points and the Portland Trail Blazers opened their exhibition schedule Tuesday night with a 95-81 victory over the Utah Jazz.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 9, 2002
Their numbers will eventually flutter in the rafters of the Delta Center, and perhaps a statue could be commissioned.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 9, 2002
The bad-shooting disease that ravaged the Jazz's season a year ago already seems to have infected the new guys, too.
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Deseret News | Oct 8, 2002
Jazz faithful should be conditioned to reading about the huffing-and-puffing player who inevitably blows the roof off Jerry Sloan's ire.
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The Oregonian | Oct 8, 2002
All the questions, all the controversies, all the speculation revolving around the Trail Blazers will head toward resolution tonight when the team opens its exhibition season against Utah at the Rose Garden.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 8, 2002
This is the third time they have played a preseason game in Portland, and they won the other two, in 1993 (112-95) and '97 (98-77).
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 8, 2002
The Jazz got a look at some of their new faces on Sunday night.
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Spokesman-Review | Oct 7, 2002
Nate McMillan did his best Sunday night to give Spokane fans a good, long look at the guys who will do most of the heavy lifting for his Seattle SuperSonics this winter.
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Deseret News | Oct 7, 2002
The special thing about playing in front of the home folks is that they notice the little things.
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Deseret News | Oct 7, 2002
John Stockton can hear the words from Coach Kerry Pickett, muttered right around the time leisure suits were in style and gym shorts still landed well above the knee.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Oct 7, 2002
The Sonics wore white for last night's preseason game, but it was Utah's John Stockton who was at home at the Spokane Arena.
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Seattle Times | Oct 7, 2002
In these uncertain times when the source of point production is still undetermined, the Sonics lost the $60 Million Man who had been tabbed as their chief offensive threat and rediscovered an alternate source of scoring.
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Seattle Times | Oct 7, 2002
Don't let John Stockton fool you.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 7, 2002
The Utah Jazz opened the NBA preseason on a positive note Sunday night.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 7, 2002
The Jazz's point guard played like he was trying to impress his hometown crowd.
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Seattle Times | Oct 6, 2002
For Kei Madison and Reggie Evans, there's not enough hyperbole to define tonight's exhibition meeting between Seattle and Utah.
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Deseret News | Oct 6, 2002
This is the preseason opener for both teams, and the first NBA game of the exhibition season.
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Deseret News | Oct 6, 2002
Remember the first time time you saw one of those Kentucky Fried Chicken/A&W combination restaurants, and did a double-take?
You mean I can get a three-piece crispy chicken dinner AND a frosty mug of A&W?
Wow.
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Deseret News | Oct 6, 2002
The hoop still hangs at John Stockton's boyhood home here.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 6, 2002
The Jazz could be greatly improved at the center position this season, even though they essentially return with the same cast from a year ago.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 6, 2002
As much as he would like it to be just another exhibition game, John Stockton admits tonight's preseason opener in Spokane, Wash.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 6, 2002
This is [Utah's] fifth visit to Spokane, and fourth since John Stockton joined the team.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 6, 2002
If the Utah Jazz's 2002-03 season is a farewell tour for John Stockton, it's fitting that it begins here in his hometown.
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Deseret News | Oct 5, 2002
He won't solve their need for shooting help at shooting guard.
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Deseret News | Oct 5, 2002
All sorts of good things typically come in twos.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 5, 2002
Jeff Hornacek was back on the court for the Jazz Friday morning - but as a teacher, not a player.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 5, 2002
Calbert Cheaney's 10th NBA training camp has been a little different from the other nine.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 5, 2002
Jeff Hornacek rejoined the Jazz on Friday, but it's not what you're thinking.
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Deseret News | Oct 4, 2002
Now 29 years old, Joe Vogel realized the window on his dreams of playing in the NBA was closing quickly.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 4, 2002
A good way to learn about Matt Harpring the basketball player is to learn about his family.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 4, 2002
Basketball has taken Anthony Bonner to the Spanish Riviera, the Greek Isles, and the seventh game of the NBA Finals.
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Deseret News | Oct 3, 2002
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan is concerned about forward Andrei Kirilenko, and it's not just because of the ankle problems that have now caused him to miss most of the Rocky Mountain Revue, most of the recent FIBA World Basketball Championship and all of Wednesday morning's third session of training camp.
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Deseret News | Oct 3, 2002
As they stood together as teammates for the first time, Karl Malone towering over the Jazz's latest acquisition on just the second night of training camp, the Mailman posed a question or two.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 3, 2002
The Jazz were a bit alarmed to see forward Andrei Kirilenko in a walking cast on Wednesday, even if it was a one-day thing.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 3, 2002
Mark Jackson had plenty of bad things to say about his new teammates Wednesday night.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 3, 2002
Just what the Jazz needed: Another player sitting on the sidelines, wearing a boot around his foot.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 3, 2002
One of the best things about backing up John Stockton, according to Mark Jackson, is it means never having to guard him.
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Deseret News | Oct 2, 2002
The Jazz have reached an agreement in principle on a one-year contract with veteran free-agent point guard Mark Jackson, basketball operations vice president Kevin O'Connor said Tuesday night.
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Deseret News | Oct 2, 2002
For the past two seasons, Donyell Marshall did the deed.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 2, 2002
Veteran point guard Mark Jackson headed to Utah on Tuesday, ready to make a new home with the Jazz.
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Stnadard Examiner | Oct 2, 2002
Greg Ostertag is lugging old baggage over new obstacles as he enters his eighth season with the Jazz.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 2, 2002
Patience is a valuable commodity in a point guard.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 2, 2002
Minutes and millions.
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| Oct 2, 2002
Phil Miller of the Salt Lake Tribune reports that the Jazz have signed veteran point guard Mark Jackson to a one-year, $1 million contract.
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Deseret News | Oct 1, 2002
Crutches by his side and right foot still in a cast, Jazz rookie center Curtis Borchardt appeared the picture of frustration on the eve of training camp.
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Deseret News | Oct 1, 2002
It's been sad to watch the whole messy Bryon Russell affair play out this summer, with its accusations, backbiting and more spin than an election debate.
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Deseret News | Oct 1, 2002
Right around this time a year ago, Jerry Sloan saw it coming.
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Standard Examiner | Oct 1, 2002
The Jazz don't begin their first official practice of the season until later this morning, but coach Jerry Sloan snuck a peek at some informal workouts and came away impressed.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 1, 2002
The Jazz will open training camp today without a veteran point guard to back up John Stockton.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 1, 2002
Agents don't miss shots, and contracts don't make bad passes.
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