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Flu Blug Perplexes Utah's Sloan
Two days after Manu Ginobili, Brent Barry and Matt Bonner missed the Spurs' game against Milwaukee, and with one of his key reserves back in Salt Lake City recovering from a bout with the same sort of stomach virus that has afflicted the Spurs of late, Sloan discussed his own playing days and today's NBA. The difference: the amount of money teams have invested in today's players. Utah's Matt Harpring remained in Salt Lake City, where the Jazz play Saturday night, ailing with the same sort of stomach virus that has beset the Spurs' locker room. Back in his day, Sloan said, players rarely were advised against playing, no matter how sick they might be. "Yeah, I've seen guys get sick," Sloan said, "but they played. I don't mean anything against anybody, but in the olden days, you didn't have doctors telling you you were going to die in a couple days." Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Knicks Shake Off Embarrassing Scene To Win In OTDown to eight players after four were suspended for their role in a brawl, New York erased a 16-point deficit Monday night and stunned the Jazz 97-96 in overtime on Stephon Marbury's layup just before time expired. With the jerseys of Nate Robinson, Mardy Collins, Jared Jeffries and Jerome James hanging in their lockers, the Knicks shook off Saturday's embarrassing scene against the Nuggets and the penalties announced earlier in the day by commissioner David Stern. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Boozer Named West Player Of The Week
Boozer led the Jazz to a 3-1 week while averaging 22.8 points, and added a Western Conference-best 12 rebounds per game. Boozer scored 31 points in a win over the Dallas Mavericks on December 11 to help Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan notch his 1,000th career victory. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Jazz Dec 2006 Archive
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When Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan was playing in the NBA in what he calls "the olden days," the notion of a player missing a game because he was ill was inconceivable.
Jazz forward Carlos Boozer was named Western Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, December 11 through Sunday, December 17. This marks the second time this season that Boozer has been named Western Conference Player of the Week.