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Malone to Try Free Agency?

Soon-to-be 40-year-old Karl Malone is approaching free agency with the same enthusiasm as an 18-year-old piquing the interest of a Duke, Kentucky or Arizona.

"The way I look at it now is like how it was when you're a superstar in high school and the colleges are coming (after) you," Malone said. "It's kind of fun. It's kind of like that. We're standing at age 40, but you know my agent will handle that and I'll enjoy my summer."

"No matter what a guy says, he still wants to have that feeling that you're wanted," he added. "At age 40, it's somewhat exciting for me. It's not about playing games, but it's exciting."

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All that Jazz

The first two-thirds of the season have the Jazz playing as one of the top teams in the tough Western Conference. If the playoffs started today, Utah would be locked in solidly at the number six spot in the Western Conference, taking on the hottest team in the league -- the San Antonio Spurs.

The Jazz completely retooled their supporting cast in the off-season for Karl Malone and John Stockton. Nearly every move the Jazz made seems to have been in the right direction. The notable exceptions would be last year's and this year's first-round draft picks, who have yet to play a game because of injuries.

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One-on-One with Matt Harpring

Having joined the Jazz during the 2002 offseason, forward Matt Harpring is enjoying the best year of his career, averaging 18.4 points, 6.9 rebounds in 33.6 minutes. Earlier this season, Harpring posted back-to-back career highs, tallying 30 points on November 26 on the road against the Clippers and 33 points at home against the Timberwolves.

He is also on track to join the 170 club, a club reserved for the league's top shooters. Through games played Sunday, February 23, Harpring is the only player in the NBA that is currently shooting 50% from the field, 40% from the three-point line and 80% from the free throw line. (50+40+80=170). In the 23 seasons since the three-point shot was introduced, only 12 players have made the 170 club. Former Jazzman Jeff Hornacek made the club a record five times, and John Stockton has achieved the feat four times.

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Jazz Feb 2003 Archive

  • Sloan's fix: Play together

    Not long ago, the Jazz were riding high, winners of four of five, their sights set on perhaps even gaining a top-four seed and homecourt advantage in the NBA's Western Conference playoff picture.

  • Eastern Swing Couldn't Come at Worse Time for Jazz

    On the whole, the Jazz would rather not be in Philadelphia.

  • Malone, Stockton: Couple of tough guys

    Nobody knows for sure whether the Utah Jazz's ageless wonders, Karl Malone and John Stockton, executed their final pick-and-roll at Target Center on Wednesday, but Timberwolves coach Flip Saunders said their legacy as teammates is already secure.

  • DeShawn gets good marks

    The Jazz lost at Minnesota on Wednesday night without starting shooting guard Calbert Cheaney, who was sidelined by a stomach virus.

  • Jazz can't hit; T'Wolves can

    Considering their icy cold record against the Jazz this season, the Minnesota Timberwolves seemed due for a little wake-up call from their dreamy success of late.

  • Jazz falter again

    Kevin Garnett saved his very best for last.

  • Garnett Does in Jazz

    Kevin Garnett might be the MVP.

  • Garnett's effort earns 'MVP' chants

    Kevin Garnett saved his very best for last.

  • Karl Malone -- He delivers

    If Karl Malone hadn't spent his entire Hall of Fame-worthy career with the Utah Jazz, he would have been a natural for the Timberwolves.

  • Harpring starting slowly

    If you're short on time or aren't really interested, don't get Jerry Sloan started.

  • Harpring Off the Mark

    Matt Harpring came tearing around a Karl Malone screen in the first 30 seconds of Monday's game in Memphis, caught a pass, and fired from 20 feet.

  • When Stockton Speaks, It's a Rare Moment

    John Stockton opened his mouth and talked during an interview Tuesday.

  • Behind the Uniform: Gary Briggs

    Looking down the Jazz bench, two people sit to the side of Jerry Sloan.

  • Goodbye, Jazz jinx

    The Grizzlies essentially braced for an encounter with a schoolyard bully whenever the Utah Jazz came charging toward them this season.

  • Ewing's Retirement

    Among the numerous invitees to longtime Knicks center Patrick Ewing's uniform-number retirement ceremony in New York on Friday night are teammates from his 1992 gold medal-winning Olympic "Dream Team," including Karl Malone and John Stockton of the Jazz.

  • Jazz struggle, lose to Grizzlies

    From the start Monday night, the Jazz just didn't have it.

  • Jazz off key on road

    The Memphis Grizzlies had enough of being manhandled by the Utah Jazz.

  • Williams' Quirky Move; Stockton Milestone

    Jason Williams is known for his creativity -- well, his tattoos, too -- but a play he made in the first 90 seconds of Monday's game was unusual even for him.

  • Utah takes it on the chin

    The knockout punch didn't come quite so swiftly, but it had the same effect.

  • Crucial road trip begins

    Around this time last year, the Jazz were just completing what they now are about to begin.

  • Jazz Facing Tough Road Ahead

    There aren't any figure skaters using their locker rooms, no Apolo Anton Ohno crashing near where their basket should be.

  • Williams' debut wasted

    On Dec.

  • Jazz-Kobe storyline is pure fiction

    It was a moment straight out of Hollywood.

  • Denver's divine help vanishes in Salt Lake

    --Guest Writer-- A man is walking down the street wearing a Utah Jazz sweatshirt.

  • Jazz dash Nugget hopes in 4th

    After a routine blowout of the Denver Nuggets, Nets' point guard Jason Kidd candidly described the game as something which, though not much fun, had to be done.

  • Guard gets hot, cooks Nuggets

    Calbert Cheaney says it's just a coincidence his best game in more than three weeks came against the team that dumped him last summer.

  • Jazz survive sluggish start

    Finding themselves tied at halftime with one of the worst teams in the NBA, the Jazz didn't need a big pep talk to get going Saturday night.

  • Mailman Delivers Assists and Points

    Karl Malone understood the Jazz offense wasn't working.

  • Jazz Take Care of Business vs. Nuggets

    The Delta Center was sold out Saturday night, so somebody was interested in the Jazz's 99-89 victory over Denver.

  • Malone Willing to Make 'Sacrifices' at Athens

    His selection to the 2004 U.

  • Mr. Bailey's wonderful life

    Thurl Bailey is retired from professional basketball, but that doesn't mean he's slowed down.

  • Horny enjoys 'piddly stuff'

    "I have to spend more time with my family.

  • Sloan, Kirilenko differ on blocks

    Compared to Jerry Sloan, Andrei Kirilenko might be called a chip off the old block.

  • Confused About Jazz? Listen to Karl

    On the eve of the NBA trading deadline, Karl Malone paused for a moment before responding to the perennial question that, for the better part of a decade, has hovered, at times more legitimately than at others, as the single most important one to answer.

  • Jazz pass on trades

    The NBA's in-season trade deadline passed Thursday afternoon with no activity by the Jazz — as expected.

  • Jazz Quiet Before Trade Deadline

    Like any other trade-deadline day, Kevin O'Connor spent plenty of time on the phone Thursday with other teams' personnel bosses.

  • Laker bench players come up big in 4th

    It's easy to get overlooked, playing in the superstar shadows of Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal.

  • Constant Kobe

    A few days back, Utah's long-time nemesis played what was probably his final game in the Delta Center.

  • Kirilenko battles Bryant

    Andrei Kirilenko seemed to alter the course of the game on Wednesday when he blocked three Kobe Bryant shots in a span of 37 seconds.

  • Kobe burns Jazz

    When fill-in center Samaki Walker injured himself on the opening jump ball Wednesday night, it looked like this was going to be one of those nights for the Los Angeles Lakers.

  • Malone Bewildered; Tag Confrontation

    Karl Malone said they did not deserve to win.

  • Kobe Makes Strong Case for MVP

    Knowing the silly melodrama that can be the Los Angeles Lakers, it's not hard to imagine that Kobe Bryant, privately, is trying to make a particular point of playing hurt while teammate and fellow spotlight contestant Shaquille O'Neal sits home with a sore knee and toe.

  • Bryant Leads Lakers Over Jazz

    The sold-out Delta Center roared as each successive Kobe Bryant shot, three in a row in a 37-second span, was swatted away by Andrei Kirilenko.

  • Harpring for Most Improved?

    Matt Harpring is flattered to be the leading candidate for the NBA's Most Improved Player Award, but the Jazz small forward takes some issue with the designation.

  • Mailman would deliver leadership to Oly team

    As USA Basketball's potential elder statesman at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Jazz star Karl Malone would be counted on for leadership as well as scoring.

  • Nobody fooled by L.A. Lakers anymore

    They're not fooling anyone.

  • Without O'Neal, Lakers Are Pained

    Shaquille O'Neal, unlike in earlier seasons, seems unwilling to play through the sort of pain that will be necessary for his team to win a fourth consecutive championship.

  • Malone gets Olympic spot

    USA Basketball apparently has decided to go back to its roots in selecting original Dream Team member Karl Malone to play in the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

  • Malone Headed to Another Gold Rush

    Karl Malone had planned to cut timber this summer.

  • Pro Athletes Take the Bad With the Good

    Jazz management -- including, at varying times, coach Jerry Sloan, VP Kevin O'Connor and owner Larry Miller -- brought the suggestion to Harpring's attention when he arrived at a team shootaround Monday morning and moved to assure him that it was not true.

  • Harpring a victim of Vecsey fiction

    Some fiction writing in New York has turned into a Utah horror story for Jazz forward Matt Harpring.

  • Rock on . . .

    Notice how low profile Jerry Sloan was immediately after coming back from suspension? The other night against Washington, he barely left the bench.

  • Jazz not shopping Harpring

    Notorious rumor monger Peter Vecsey launched a big one on Sunday with a suggestion in the New York Post that the Jazz would trade Matt Harpring to the Los Angeles Clippers for Elton Brand.

  • Jazz wear down 'Wolves

    The more banged up Karl Malone gets, the better he seems to play.

  • Lesson in Execution - Trade Rumor

    Long after Minnesota coach Flip Saunders had finished his postgame speech, the Timberwolves could quote the key number from the discussion.

  • Ostertag's Defense Helps Veteran Duo

    Kevin Garnett went off Monday night, putting up 34 points on the Jazz.

  • Team USA About to Include Malone

    The next additions to the Team USA basketball roster will be Sacramento guard Mike Bibby and Utah forward Karl Malone, ESPN.

  • Jazz to make deal? Not likely

    With no clue if this is John Stockton's or Karl Malone's final season with the Jazz, or perhaps the last for both future hall-of-famers, the temptation to go for broke seems to tug with urgency.

  • Jazz Willing to Make Deal

    Cooking up a trade requires three ingredients: The will, the goods and the partner.

  • West playoff hopefuls sense urgency

    Just 30 games remain for the Jazz in the regular season, and the playoff races are starting to heat up.

  • Sloan toils day to day

    With more than two weeks to stew after he was suspended seven games for shoving referee Courtney Kirkland, Jerry Sloan might just have said enough is enough.

  • Shawn Kemp is no Karl

    Long ago in a different life, I thought Karl Malone was about to be surpassed.

  • Massenburg is thrilled to play for a winner

    After Tony Massenburg flushed a massive slam the other night, on the way to another Jazz victory against one of his former teams, he paused momentarily under the basket to flex and scream and smile.

  • For Wizards, It's Jazz And Blues

    Michael Jordan's last game in Utah before tonight was, at the time, a fitting finish that left an indelible memory to basketball fans: the Shot, the Championship, the End.

  • His Airness exits quietly

    It rarely ends perfectly.

  • B-Russ applauds fans

    During most of his nine seasons with the Utah Jazz, Bryon Russell was one of the team's more popular players.

  • Jazz silence Mike

    On what should have been a special night for a special player, the Washington Wizards were especially horrible.

  • Dream Team reunion

    Injured Spanish guard Raul Lopez was just 12 years old when the Dream Team came to Barcelona for the 1992 Olympics, but he remembers the stir the American stars caused.

  • Final game in SLC not vintage MJ

    This was certainly not the way Michael Jordan wanted to be remembered in what was likely his last basketball game at the Delta Center.

  • Jazz blast Wizards

    Jerry Sloan was subdued, Bryon Russell was invisible and Michael Jordan scored 11 of the most irrelevant points of his career.

  • Farewell to Jordan

    Michael Jordan's last game at the Delta Center -- assuming he doesn't decide to come out of retirement again -- turned into an exercise in futility for both he and his Washington Wizards teammates.

  • Wizards Jordan Gracious After Big Loss

    Former Jazzman Bryon Russell scored three points in his first game at the Delta Center since signing with Washington.

  • Utah Jazz Put Away Wizards Early

    Calbert Cheaney was at the far end of the Delta Center court Friday night when Jerry Sloan hollered and beckoned him over to the bench, his scowl tipping off his mood.

  • Stackhouse Cuts Road Trip Short

    Washington Wizards leading scorer Jerry Stackhouse, who has missed the past four games with a pulled left groin, caught a red-eye flight back to Washington tonight to undergo an MRI exam.

  • Jazz heartbreaker returns

    Tonight's Jazz-Wizards game at the Delta Center will have a seems-like-old-times flavor to it.

  • MJ's TOP 10 Utah Moments

    Nov.

  • Reunion Tonight

    It's like a family reunion, with all the familiar faces coming together once again.

  • Amaechi's swat lands on Karl's broken beak

    When teammate John Amaechi swatted him Wednesday night in virtually the same spot his nose was broken Tuesday night, Karl Malone might have wished he was wearing a mask.

  • Yo, Yao! Ming's the real thing

    Please, by all means, bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

  • Listless Jazz drop rematch with the Rockets

    One night after so much went so right for the Jazz, so much went so wrong.

  • Rockets take no chances with Jazz

    The leads seemed safe.

  • There's No-se Stopping Injured Karl Malone

    Karl Malone has missed six games because of injury or illness in 18 1/2 NBA seasons.

  • Yao! Utah Fans Were Expecting a Better Show

    Good thing we have seen all those highlights to prove that Houston's Yao Ming is an emerging superstar, because if we had to judge strictly on his Utah debut against the Jazz on Wednesday night, we might not believe it.

  • Francis Sparks Rockets' Rout of Listless Jazz

    One night, Karl Malone gets belted in the nose.

  • Collins has knee surgery; Hapring Update

    Out since tearing the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his right knee last Dec.

  • Jazz force an OT, win

    As if facing the Houston Rockets twice in two nights wasn't enough, the Jazz wanted to play a few extra minutes Tuesday.

  • 'Youngster' Harpring gives Jazz new life

    Utah's old guard of 39-year-old Karl Malone and 40-year-old John Stockton have for years proved their durability, earned the headlines and represented the Jazz's first and second options at crunch time.

  • Familiar foe deals this franchise yet another crushing blow

    They don't beat you down.

  • Jazz keep beat in overtime

    For all the times the Rockets wanted to just forget everything and take a swing at Karl Malone, here was their chance.

  • Jazz take Round 1

    Karl Malone's broken nose and Matt Harpring's sore ribs didn't matter in the end.

  • Broken Nose Can't Stop Malone

    Karl Malone sat in a corner of the Jazz's tiny locker room, his feet plunged into a bucket of ice water, a cold compress taped to the back of his neck, and with a trainer tending to his broken nose.

  • Harpring, Malone Fuel Jazz Rally

    It's probably fitting that the local Lakewood Church's congregation has bought the soon-to-be-abandoned Compaq Center.

  • Mailman is Mr. Clutch

    Most of the players getting it done this season when NBA games are on the line did not play in Sunday's All-Star Game.

  • All-Star break helps Harpring

    The Jazz made it through their first practice after the NBA All-Star Game with full participation by starting small forward Matt Harpring, who missed two of three games before the break with a muscle-related injury in his lower rib cage.

  • Yao both skilled and humble

    From a small round table with plenty of seats to accommodate everyone interested in talking with him, Houston guard Steve Francis glanced at the commotion in the corner.

  • Rockets' playoff fight is n

    "We can change the look over everything if we can get wins," Rockets guard Steve Francis said.

  • Double dose of Yao

    The Houston Rockets are a rising young team that boasts two All-Star starters, yet somehow they still seem to be looking up at the Jazz in the Western Conference standings.

  • Jazz Records After All-Star Break

    Breakdown of records following the All-Star break.

  • Jazz Hoping Trend of Success Continues

    Tony Massenburg summed up the Jazz's pattern of success without even knowing it.

  • Overachieving Jazz Still Face Uphill Battle

    And now, here with today's news and commentary is the guy who believes the Mike Weir-Wayne Gretzky golf pro-am twosome is a pairing of the Great One with some old hockey player .

  • NBA will play best-of-7...

    The big news out of NBA commissioner David Stern's All-Star Weekend state-of-the-league address: First-round play series will be expanded from best-of-five to best-of-seven games, starting this postseason.

  • AK47 brings defense to rookie game

    Frustrated in last year's Rookie Challenge game because no one played defense and everyone went one-on-one, Andrei Kirilenko felt like he was back in Philadelphia.

  • Defense? Bright Idea, Andrei

    Jason Richardson's 360-degree spin dunk was spectacular.

  • Kirilenko on nickname, Sloan, media, more

    A sampling of subjects addressed Friday by Jazz swingman Andrei Kirilenko during his meeting with the media prior to today's NBA All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge game:

  • On his nickname, AK47: "I'm trying to be gun, but not like in war.

  • Johnson's happy being a sidekick

    Don't you wonder about a guy who maintains a profile as low as Phil Johnson, the Jazz assistant coach? What's he hiding from? Does he owe somebody money? Is he in the witness protection program? On the lam? Johnson has been the Jazz's invisible man for almost 15 years.

  • 'Me-first' game play not Kirilenko's style

    For one weekend, Andrei Kirilenko learned the hard way last season, he should forget about everything Jerry Sloan has schooled into his head.

  • Jazz content to rest during break

    For their part, the Utah Jazz can start worrying about the playoffs next week.

  • Kirilenko's Progress Continues

    The unofficial theme of the NBA's All-Star Weekend is "Farewell to Michael Jordan.

  • Jazz take break feeling good

    While the NBA world turns its attention to Atlanta this weekend, the Jazz scattered for parts here, there and everywhere feeling pretty good about what is going on their own little world.

  • Massenburg glad to mash Memphis

    Tony Massenburg has friends with the Memphis Grizzlies.

  • Malone Sprain, No Problem

    A mild ankle sprain, Karl Malone vowed Wednesday night, won't keep him from making the most of his All-Star Game break.

  • Rock on . . .

    Maybe Phil Johnson enjoys filling in as head coach.

  • Jazz get All-Star time off after win

    For a fifth straight game, Jerry Sloan was absent.

  • Grizzlies run out of steam

    There was almost a full quarter left to play in Wednesday's Grizzlies-Jazz game, and Grizzlies point guard Earl Watson's mind was having a conversation with the rest of his body.

  • Scorebook: Veteran's play brings a smile

    Tony Massenburg insists the victory is the most important thing, but that dunk of his in the fourth quarter, that had to have been a close second.

  • Jazz finally record 'W'

    Considering that the Memphis Grizzlies only had eight players available - and they're not a very good team even when they do have a full roster - the Jazz basically just had to show up Wednesday night to get the victory.

  • Massenburg Enjoys Thunderous Dunk

    Tony Massenburg has sat sullenly on the Grizzlies' bench in the final seconds of a rout several times, so he knows what his former teammates were feeling in the final two minutes of the Jazz's 105-84 victory Wednesday.

  • Jazz Work for Win

    After four dozen games in three months, it is probably natural for NBA teams to anticipate their All-Star Weekend off like school kids counting down to summer vacation.

  • Harpring suffers another setback

    Playing seemed like a good idea during pre-game warmups prior to the Jazz's Monday night-loss to the NBA-leading Dallas Mavericks.

  • DeShawn is deep in sports duds

    His first throwback purchase was a $250 Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, and — much like someone else in the news lately — it got him in trouble.

  • Hoop hotheads have to chill

    Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan got an early start on his All-Star game weekend break.

  • Williams struggling with shot

    At 13-34 the Grizzlies have one of the worst records in the NBA, and they haven't struggled against anyone the way they have against the Jazz, losing their two meetings this season by an average of 32 points.

  • Mavs Hurt Harpring's Recovery

    Matt Harpring winces in pain driving over speed bumps.

  • Win or Lose, Teams Have Gripe With Refs

    The game wasn't over 15 minutes Monday before the standard complaints began.

  • Mavs say Jazz rough, refs soft

    Nick Van Exel thinks Jazz fans should bring towels to the Delta Center.

  • Van Exel hits late 3 as Mavs edge Jazz

    If the Jazz deserve credit for anything Monday night, it's knowing what they should have done.

  • Meet Calbert Cheaney

    Entering his tenth NBA season, the Utah Jazz became the fourth team Calbert Cheaney has played for during his career.

  • Nelson wonders about Sloan penalty

    Though he's not sure there's anything that he can do about it, coach Don Nelson is a little confused about the penalty doled out to Utah coach Jerry Sloan for shoving referee Courtney Kirkland.

  • Rugged Mavs top Jazz on Van Exel's 3-pointer

    In this season that is taking on a magical look, the Mavericks had their first postgame group hug Monday night.

  • Van Exel's big shot frustrates Delta Center crowd

    Nick Van Exel hit the game-winning shot on Monday, and then he took a few shots at the Delta Center fans.

  • Nick-ed at the end

    The losing streak is just two games, but the trend is unmistakable.

  • Mavs' Van Exel No Stranger to Big Shots

    The Dallas Mavericks' last play was an isolation scheme that started with Nick Van Exel, but he knew he was not going to shoot.

  • Van Exel's Key 3-pointer Seals Win

    There, that ought to teach those runaway Mavericks a lesson.

  • Jazz getting to know Johnson

    They went 44-38, an 11-win improvement over the previous season, and made the playoffs for the first time in seven years.

  • Jazz duo forms unlikely bond

    Mark Jackson reached his 10,000th career assist in fitting fashion earlier this season, lobbing an alley-oop pass to Andrei Kirilenko for a highlight-reel dunk.

  • Rib Injury Sidelines Harpring

    The X-rays look good.

  • Kobe Still Big Shot for Lakers

    Some days, the job is Kobe Bryant's and no one else's, because it seems he does not tire and he does not get distracted and he does not yield.

  • Save your righteous indignation

    A bevy of helpful readers correctly pointed out after my column on the Jerry Sloan ref-shoving incident earlier this week that I mistakenly wrote it was the Jazz coach's first such offense.

  • Malone was surpassed, not snubbed

    Wasn't it interesting that Karl Malone seemed genuinely hurt earlier this week when he wasn't selected for the NBA All-Star Game? Malone's disdain for All-Star Weekend is well-documented.

  • Tips for Sloan on his 'vacation'

    So, Jerry Sloan, now that you've earned a seven-game suspension, what are you going to do? "I'm going to Disneyland!" Yeah, right.

  • L.A. nets win vs. cold Jazz

    They were supposed to just go away.

  • Competitive Sloan not likely to change his ways much

    If you believe in reincarnation and in people living more than one lifetime, then you just have to believe that Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan was a gladiator in a previous life.

  • Kobe blitzes Jazz

    Kobe Bryant scored 42 points, and Shaquille O'Neal had 21 points and 13 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Utah Jazz 99-87 Saturday night for their third straight victory.

  • With Johnson, You Get All of Sloan, Minus the Anger

    When Jazz coach Jerry Sloan disengaged his body from his brain, spewing words that rhyme with dock pucker and brother trucker at a referee, shoving and challenging him to a fight, getting ejected from a game, and then suspended for seven more, he turned his team over to his own shadow, to the other man in the mirror: Phil Johnson.

  • Lakers Go Out for Bite - Stevenson Improved

    After flying in late Friday night, the Jazz's itinerary here amounted to a team meeting Saturday morning, and nothing else before a bus ride to Staples Center.

  • Just-Don't-See TV? Kobe Burns the Jazz

    Just a hunch, but unless Jerry Sloan got caught up in a rerun of "Saturday Night Live," he may be shopping for a new TV today.

  • Musselman tried to get Harpring

    Matt Harpring said he might have suited up for the visiting team Friday if his free agency had unfolded a little differently.

  • Warriors defenseless & Musselman irked

    The blackboard in the Warriors' locker room contained a message scribbled at halftime: "59 points -- defensive pride.

  • Jackson, Kirilenko connect

    It is becoming a staple of Jazz games, performed practically once every outing: Mark Jackson to Andrei Kirilenko, alley-oop dunk of the most-spectacular variety.

  • Stevenson gets quality minutes

    It isn't easy being the 10th man — if that — on a team with a nine-man rotation.

  • Winning formula keeps Jazz afloat

    The NBA season is more than halfway finished and here they are again — the Jazz are right back in the thick of things.

  • Jazz slow Warriors

    Playing the Golden State Warriors at their pace is a lot like speeding on the open highway.

  • 5-foot-5 Boykins plays big

    Because he's the shortest player in the NBA, Golden State point guard Earl Boykins gets picked on quite a bit -- even in his home arena.

  • Slow Jazz a big hit

    The run-and-gun Golden State Warriors are fun to watch and even fun to play against.

  • Kirilenko Doesn't Wobble - Mailman Not Shabby

    It was Andre Kirilenko bobblehead night at the Delta Center.

  • Utah Jazz Proves It Can Slow Fast Pace of Golden State

    The Golden State Warriors are the NBA's version of an all-chocolate diet.