Dec 31, 2002 12:58 PM EST
On a Jerry Sloan-coached team, there are certain rules that players are expected to obey.
One is: When attempting to block a shot, don't leave your feet. The problem is that when a player leaves his feet, he eventually has to come down, and it's not uncommon for players to commit fouls in the process of landing.
But according to one reliable source who has been privy to team meetings, when Sloan recites that rule he is always quick to add: "Except you, Andrei."
"Andrei," of course, is Andrei Kirilenko, the second-year forward who has blocked 11 shots in the Jazz's last two games, including five in Monday night's 107-85 victory over the Toronto Raptors at the Delta Center.
He also scored 20 points on six of 10 shots, pulled down four rebounds and made three steals.
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Dec 31, 2002 12:57 PM EST
The temptation was to look at the facts, and chuckle.
Toronto came to Utah 8-22, loser of six straight and 10 of its previous 11 games. The injury-depleted Raptors arrived quite short-handed, missing star Vince Carter and fellow starter Antonio Davis, among others. And they were playing their fourth game in five nights, all out West.
Should be a real laugher, huh?
Well, Utah's 107-85 victory over Toronto on Monday night was no joke.
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Dec 31, 2002 11:46 AM EST
Hoops history may show that Karl Malone and John Stockton were unable to lead the Utah Jazz to an NBA championship.
Having played with them and having learned from them, Greg Foster has a different perspective on the future Hall of Fame tandem of Malone and Stockton.
"I don't think people know the true scope of what John and Karl have done in this league," Foster said as he returned to Utah last night with the Raptors. "These are two guys who show up for practice each day and work hard each day, two guys who play hard every single game."
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Jazz Dec 2002 Archive
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Toronto Sun | Dec 31, 2002
The Raptors find themselves in seventh hell.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 31, 2002
Vince Carter was a no-show.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 31, 2002
Andrei Kirilenko kept the fans in the stands and the Toronto Raptors on their heels Monday night at the Delta Center.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 31, 2002
Andrei Kirilenko is having another good season in the NBA, but he's not even having the best year in his own family.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 31, 2002
The Jazz's bench is full of guys who could start.
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USA Today | Dec 30, 2002
The Utah Jazz have reached seventh overall on the Sagarin ratings playing the seventh most difficult schedule.
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Deseret News | Dec 30, 2002
Monday night, with Toronto in town, the Jazz play their third game in four nights.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 30, 2002
For the past 10 years, Tony Massenburg knew he was in for a tough night every time he took the court against Karl Malone.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 30, 2002
If Christmas is a time to relax, if New Year's is a chance to get away from the grind, if the holidays are supposed to be a vacation, then consider the Jazz a bunch of scrooges.
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Philadelphia Inquirer | Dec 29, 2002
It was not a move born of surrender.
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Deseret News | Dec 29, 2002
It was widely considered as little more than a minor personality clash, a way of letting off a little steam, but it may have been a pivotal moment in the Utah Jazz's season.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 29, 2002
Somebody smelled a rat on Saturday night.
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Deseret News | Dec 29, 2002
In basketball parlance, a gym rat is a good thing.
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Deseret News | Dec 29, 2002
With Allen Iverson off his game and the Jazz back on theirs, Philadelphia had about as much chance Saturday night as a rat that was tossed onto the court from high in the Delta Center stands.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 29, 2002
Rest is apparently overrated.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 29, 2002
Philadelphia's Keith Van Horn rented a suite at the Delta Center on Saturday night for 35 family members and friends.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 29, 2002
The finality was so swift and brutal Saturday night, even born-to-hunt Karl Malone felt sympathy.
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| Dec 28, 2002
Tim Buckley of the Desert News reports that the injury bug has caught the Jazz.
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Oregonian | Dec 27, 2002
With his advancing age and retreating productivity, it has been a trying season for Karl Malone.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 27, 2002
Veteran guard Calbert Cheaney has been joining some of his younger teammates working with Jeff Hornacek on their shooting.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 27, 2002
It only took one-third of the season for the Jazz to establish exactly who they are.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 26, 2002
Christmas has a distinctive international flavor among the Jazz this year.
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Houston Chronicle | Dec 24, 2002
The Rockets shot lights out Monday night.
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Houston Chronicle | Dec 24, 2002
Now we know.
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Deseret News | Dec 24, 2002
Yao that they've seen him first-hand, the Jazz are believers, too.
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Deseret News | Dec 24, 2002
Forgive Karl Malone for getting a little nostalgic, but he just couldn't help it.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 24, 2002
With college students finishing their finals last week, I feel it's appropriate to hand out some grades of my own.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 24, 2002
The Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets decided to play the last few minutes of their game Monday night with minimal lighting.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 24, 2002
Leave it to the Jazz to avoid getting swept up in Yao Fever.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 24, 2002
Think the sun is setting on Karl Malone's career? Then know this: The future Hall of Famer has some experience hitting big, pressure shots as the light dwindles.
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GoMemphis.com | Dec 23, 2002
Every time I watch John Stockton and Karl Malone, I know I'm seeing something I'll never see again.
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GoMemphis.com | Dec 23, 2002
There are games coaches oversee and then wish the evidence just vanishes.
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Deseret News | Dec 23, 2002
For one season, Memphis was Tony Massenburg's home.
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Deseret News | Dec 23, 2002
'Tis the season to be stressed.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 23, 2002
The Utah Jazz didn't waste any time running away from the Memphis Grizzlies.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 23, 2002
The Jazz are thrilled that Tony Massenburg felt right at home Sunday, and it had nothing to do with his old homecourt.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 23, 2002
Pau cowed, and how.
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Deseret News | Dec 22, 2002
Karl Malone, whose vivid imagination has turned a handful of critics into a legion, misses the point.
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Deseret News | Dec 22, 2002
On occasion over the past 18 seasons, stress has tested the strength of the relationship between Jazz coach Jerry Sloan and Jazz star Karl Malone.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 22, 2002
So much has changed since the Jazz and Memphis Grizzlies met at the Delta Center two weeks ago.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 22, 2002
Greg Ostertag is tired of talking about his kidney surgery.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 22, 2002
Coach Jerry Sloan played 11 seasons in the NBA, but it could have been more.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 22, 2002
So, Karl and Jerry had a spat the other day at Jazz practice.
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Deseret News | Dec 21, 2002
The last time Greg Ostertag visited here, it was to give a gift.
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Deseret News | Dec 21, 2002
Recently, I wrote a column giving Karl Malone complete step-by-step instructions on how to win back the good will and support of fans if he wanted to avoid being remembered as a complaining, ungrateful grouch after his career ends.
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Deseret News | Dec 21, 2002
On an evening of solid play from the Jazz, several things broke Friday.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 21, 2002
The Dallas Mavericks' offense disappeared Friday night, and so did their club-record home winning streak.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 21, 2002
Battling the Mavericks was the main event Friday, but there was a pretty good bout on the Jazz's undercard, too:
Jerry Sloan vs.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 21, 2002
I'll be home for Christmas.
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Deseret News | Dec 20, 2002
Karl Malone said he sensed "this" was coming.
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| Dec 20, 2002
Praise is like Christmas turkey.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 20, 2002
Karl Malone is feeling the full weight of his $19.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 20, 2002
Harpring might have received votes in a preseason poll to forecast the team's No.
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Orlando Sentinel | Dec 19, 2002
Fans taunt the lesser-known Orlando Magic players with regularity and nastiness these days.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 19, 2002
The NBA average for turnovers in a game is 15 this season, which is how many the Jazz had in the second half alone Wednesday night.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 19, 2002
Lacking the gumption to pounce on a struggling team, the Utah Jazz coughed up another one at the Delta Center on Wednesday night.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 19, 2002
Determined to end a losing streak, resolved not to be a .
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Deseret News | Dec 18, 2002
He may not pound the boards like the Jazz prefer.
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UtahJazz.com | Dec 18, 2002
When fans came to the Delta Center to see the Utah Jazz play December 12 and 14, they brought more than just their tickets.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 18, 2002
It was just John Amaechi's luck.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 18, 2002
Former Jazz center Olden Polynice -- awaiting a second trial for assaulting a golfer earlier this year -- was charged Tuesday with disturbing the peace for allegedly yelling obscenities at a prosecutor after a Dec.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 18, 2002
John Amaechi hasn't watched the tape.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 18, 2002
NBA referees are taking a lot of heat lately.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 17, 2002
Instead of concentrating on only one topic this week, I thought I'd share some of my feelings on a variety of Jazz issues.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 17, 2002
Curtis Borchardt is making progress, one crutch at a time.
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| Dec 16, 2002
Oscar Dixon of USA Today reports that after recent verbal and physical attacks on officiating crews, the NBA is looking into the incidents.
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UtahJazz.com | Dec 16, 2002
Utah Jazz Vice President of Basketball Operations Kevin O'Connor announced today that the team has signed veteran Tony Massenburg to a one-year contract.
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Sacramento Bee | Dec 15, 2002
It's been said that officials -- in virtually any athletic endeavour -- did a good job when no one knows they were there.
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Deseret News | Dec 15, 2002
Sold out for the first time this season, the Delta Center was a rather rowdy place Saturday night — replete with a Cleveland-like shower of debris directed at the officiating crew of Marc Davis, Tony Brothers and Bennett Salvatore at the end of Sacramento's 98-96 victory over the Jazz.
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Deseret News | Dec 15, 2002
Music is a journey, says Thurl Bailey.
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Deseret News | Dec 15, 2002
The Sacramento Kings were just a bit too much for the Utah Jazz Saturday night at the Delta Center, which is getting to be fairly predictable.
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Deseret News | Dec 15, 2002
John Amaechi can't catch a break.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 15, 2002
After getting cut by the Memphis Grizzlies just before the start of the season, Tony Massenburg returned home to Maryland to wait for a phone call.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 15, 2002
There are some things we must endure in this lifetime that are emotionally and physically painful, terribly frustrating and, at times, downright agonizing to the soul.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 15, 2002
Referee Marc Davis bailed out the Sacramento Kings in a big way Saturday night, but in a sense his bizarre call in the closing seconds bailed out the Jazz as well.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 15, 2002
Maybe Jarron Collins is no Larry Bird, but it's all the same to Tony Massenburg.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 15, 2002
Bodies crashing to the ground, athletes rolling in pain, even some blood being shed.
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desert news | Dec 15, 2002
Tim Buckley of the Desert News reports: Tony Massenburg warmed up with the Utah Jazz before last night's game at home against Sacramento, attended a pre-game meeting, and even stood with the team in huddles but as of last night's game, he was still unsigned.
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| Dec 14, 2002
The bump didn't look too awful, but that's not unusual.
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Deseret News | Dec 14, 2002
He didn't pull the pin on the ol' hand grenade line, thank goodness.
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Deseret News | Dec 14, 2002
The Jazz were dealt a major blow Friday when they learned backup center Jarron Collins has sustained a major blowout of his right knee.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 14, 2002
The Jazz suffered yet another serious blow on the injury front on Friday when they learned center Jarron Collins tore ligaments in his right knee and is out for the season.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 14, 2002
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| Dec 13, 2002
Utah Jazz backup center Jarron Collins will miss the rest of the season with torn ligaments in his right knee.
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Deseret News | Dec 13, 2002
Jarron Collins wasn't certain just how bad it was, but the fact he was leaning on crutches signaled it certainly couldn't be a good thing.
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Deseret News | Dec 13, 2002
It wasn't as if the Utah Jazz weren't aware that David Wesley could shoot the three.
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Deseret News | Dec 13, 2002
For a while there, during that recent stretch in which they won nine of 10 games, the Jazz were in a real zone.
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| Dec 13, 2002
Coach Jerry Sloan cared deeply about the Jazz's 93-88 loss to New Orleans Thursday night.
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UtahJazz.com | Dec 13, 2002
Something in the media guides did not compute.
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Times-Picayune | Dec 13, 2002
The Hornets were getting badly beaten on give-and-go plays.
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Times-Picayune | Dec 13, 2002
History-making? You might say so.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 13, 2002
Thursday's game at the Delta Center was a good start to the toughest -- and perhaps most crucial -- stretch of the season for the New Orleans Hornets.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 13, 2002
Baron Davis was having a miserable night on Thursday, but everything went his way in the final minute.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 13, 2002
Just as pitching trumps hitting, just as a powerful rushing attack beats the finesse of a passing offense, conventional wisdom says a basketball team that bullies its way to layup after layup will overcome a corps of long-range shooters.
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Deseret News | Dec 12, 2002
That the Jazz open a homestand tonight seems almost like an afterthought.
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Standard Examiner | Dec 12, 2002
This clearly isn't the same Jazz team today that started the season, and tonight they get a good chance to see how far they've come.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 12, 2002
It is easy to see the growing contribution that Calbert Cheaney is making to the Jazz.
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Deseret News | Dec 11, 2002
Stars.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 11, 2002
To Kobe Bryant, it was surrender.
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Deseret News | Dec 10, 2002
The NBA has fined Utah center Greg Ostertag $7,500 for "failing to leave the court in a timely manner" in the first two minutes of Sunday's 110-101 loss to the Lakers.
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ESPN | Dec 10, 2002
Ostertag was fined for failing to leave the court and head to the locker room immediately following his ejection in Utah's 110-101 loss at Los Angeles on Sunday.
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Deseret News | Dec 9, 2002
When Jazz coach Jerry Sloan tried giving his two-cents worth to ref Derrick Stafford on Sunday night, he got ejected with two quick technicals.
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Deseret News | Dec 9, 2002
Ejected within six minutes of each other in the first quarter, Greg Ostertag and Jerry Sloan had time to kill Sunday night.
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Los Angeles Times | Dec 9, 2002
The Jazz outplayed and outscored the Lakers in two of the final three quarters, but that wasn't enough.
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Los Angeles Times | Dec 9, 2002
The Lakers were not going to knock the occasional fall-out-of-the-sky miracle, whatever it was that happened on the same floor a couple of nights before.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 9, 2002
The Lakers parlayed the momentum from their amazing comeback against Dallas into a 110-101 win over the Utah Jazz and put themselves into position to win three consecutive games for the first time this season.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 9, 2002
Through their 8-13 start, most of Los Angeles has been hunting for a sign that the Lakers were about to start playing like the three-time champions they are.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 9, 2002
Once the referees disposed of Greg Ostertag, the Laker center did the same to Ostertag's teammates, dominating the paint with 16 points in the first quarter en route to 32 for the game.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 9, 2002
Given the price of front-row Lakers tickets -- you could buy a sizeable chunk of Utah for less -- Jerry Sloan isn't worried about paying a fine for being thrown out of Sunday night's tedious loss to the Lakers.
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Deseret News | Dec 9, 2002
Readers have spoken.
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Deseret News | Dec 9, 2002
The Jazz's moment of galvanization came against the Denver Nuggets.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 8, 2002
Sure, the Jazz have won 9-of-10, but when was the last time they beat a playoff-caliber team on the road?
Uh, that would be last season.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 8, 2002
With Shaq and Kobe and their roster full of little dwarfs all in a funk, nobody knows how this season ultimately will bump and skid to a halt.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 8, 2002
Not to give away any proprietary information, but the strategy for tonight's game won't exactly be difficult for the Jazz.
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GoMemphis.com | Dec 7, 2002
It only took the first six minutes to discern which was more painful.
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Deseret News | Dec 7, 2002
The Jazz will practice this morning without starting shooting guard Calbert Cheaney, who is returning home to Indiana to mourn the passing of his best friend.
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Deseret News | Dec 7, 2002
Jerry Sloan might have tied a loop of yarn around each guy's finger.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 7, 2002
If anyone on the Jazz didn't remember they lost three times to the Memphis Grizzlies last season, there were plenty of reminders on Friday.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 7, 2002
Calbert Cheaney will be back home in Indiana today, attending the funeral of his best friend.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 7, 2002
The Jazz moved into fourth place in the Western Conference playoff race Friday night, and if you think an early December blowout against last-place Memphis doesn't carry postseason implications, you don't understand Jerry Sloan.
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| Dec 6, 2002
He was not an athlete, but he was the picture of health.
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UtahJazz.com | Dec 6, 2002
Jazzman Calbert Cheaney chatted live on utahjazz.
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Deseret News | Dec 6, 2002
Some thought their recent six-game win streak was suspect, largely because they weren't exactly beating the cream of the NBA crop, and especially after they were shamed in San Antonio last Saturday night.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 6, 2002
The Jazz seem to be getting some of that home-court swagger back.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 6, 2002
Timeouts are toughest for Calbert Cheaney these days, the moments on the court when nothing is happening and his attention can wander for a few seconds.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 6, 2002
In 69-year-old Hubie Brown, the average NBA fan sees a veteran broadcaster reborn as a head coach.
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Deseret News | Dec 5, 2002
Nobody sane is going to suggest that Greg Ostertag's defensive job on Shaquille O'Neal was the difference in Wednesday's 93-85 Jazz victory over the Lakers.
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Deseret News | Dec 5, 2002
Forget, for a moment, half-full, half-empty.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 5, 2002
Karl Malone figures most players in the NBA would love to have 23 points and 15 rebounds like Shaquille O"Neal had Wednesday night.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 5, 2002
Rarely has a victory over a last-place team meant so much to the Jazz.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 5, 2002
Jazz point guard Mark Jackson played only 13 minutes during the Jazz's 93-85 victory over the Lakers on Wednesday night.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 5, 2002
This one didn't taste like Nuggets.
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Deseret News | Dec 4, 2002
With Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant in town tonight for the first time this season, the temptation is to try.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 4, 2002
Former Utah Jazz center Olden Polynice will appear at a bench trial in February to appeal his justice court conviction on one count of class B misdemeanor assault.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 4, 2002
For a team that has won seven of its last eight games, the Jazz are hard to figure out.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 4, 2002
If Scott Padgett has a signature move this season, it's this one: Right hand to his chest, finger pointed, eyebrows raised as he mouths the word, "Me?"
Few players appear as shocked as Padgett when a substitute checks in to take his place.
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Indianapolis Star | Dec 3, 2002
The Indiana Pacers' Quick offense slowed to a crawl once too often Monday night without starting point guard Jamaal Tinsley in the lineup.
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Deseret News | Dec 3, 2002
Mark Jackson played five-plus seasons for Indiana, but Monday's game offered no extra incentive for the Jazz point guard.
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Deseret News | Dec 3, 2002
A couple of evenings earlier in San Antonio, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan accused his club of playing scared, packing it in and not really seeming to care.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 3, 2002
This time Reggie Miller was the future Hall of Famer to get shut out.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 3, 2002
He's only 21-years-old.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 3, 2002
John Stockton has been doing it for more than 18 years, yet he still has the ability to amaze his peers.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 3, 2002
The Indiana Pacers lost for the third time in 15 games Monday night at the Delta Center.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 3, 2002
NBA basketball is a young man's game, or so the Indiana Pacers would have you believe.
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Deseret News | Dec 2, 2002
He said his sore right hand bothered him while shooting 1-for-16 Saturday night in San Antonio, but Karl Malone vows the injury shouldn't keep him from playing tonight vs.
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Deseret News | Dec 2, 2002
Fire.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 2, 2002
As much as it pained Reggie Miller to watch from the sidelines during his team's sizzling start, he didn't want to jinx them by coming back during a winning streak.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 2, 2002
Figures.
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| Dec 1, 2002
History would prefer that milestones like this occur on a game-winning basket, before the home crowd, maybe with a pretty spin move in the lane as a flourish.
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San Antonio Express-News | Dec 1, 2002
David Robinson walked out of the SBC Center on Saturday night with his right eyelid drooping shut, perhaps one final farewell present from Karl Malone.
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San Antonio Express-News | Dec 1, 2002
Only two NBA teams other than Utah have an active player who ranks among the top 10 in career assists.
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Deseret News | Dec 1, 2002
Jerry Sloan isn't impressed when he reads about coaches who spend every non-coaching moment watching tape.
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Deseret News | Dec 1, 2002
One month into the Jazz season, the only thing I know for sure about this team is this:
They're more fun to watch than last season's team.
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Deseret News | Dec 1, 2002
Karl Malone got all the points he needed Saturday night to hit the 35,000 career-points plateau.
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Standard-Examiner | Dec 1, 2002
Karl Malone needed seven points to reach 35,000 for his career, and on a normal night, he might have gotten that number before he even broke a sweat.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 1, 2002
Too bad.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Dec 1, 2002
Not that anyone believes that fate or conspiracy played a part -- right? -- but how spooky is it that 35 was one of the winning numbers in the Texas Lotto drawing Saturday? Coincidence or not, it sure looked like 35 was everywhere in the Lone Star State.
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