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Yao Sits Out Game With Infection
Yao told team officials he felt sick when he arrived at the Toyota Center for a workout on Sunday morning, Coach Rick Adelman said. "The doctors looked at him and they don't think it's worth the chance," Adelman said. "We'll just have to move on." Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Jazz Send Almond To D-League
Almond, 6-6, 225-pounds, has appeared in six regular season games for the Jazz. During his first stint with the Flash, Almond played in 10 games and averaged a league-leading 29.8 points, to go with 3.8 rebounds, 1.4 assists, and 1.1 steals in 37.6 minutes per game. Almond was named D-League.com Performer of the Week for games played during the week of Dec. 17 after averaging 43.5 points, 6.0 rebounds, and 2.0 steals while shooting 47 percent from the field. On Dec. 21, Almond scored a D-League record-tying 51 points in a win over the Austin Toros. Selected by the Jazz in the first round (25th overall selection) of the 2007 NBA Draft, Almond was a four-year contributor at Rice University where he averaged 15.1 points and 3.5 rebounds over the course of his career and was named Conference USA Player of the Year as a senior after setting single-season conference records for points average (26.4 ppg), points scored (884,) and free throws made (241). Additionally, Almond earned First Team All-Conference USA honors during his junior and senior seasons and finished his career as Rice’s fourth all-time leading scorer with 1,825 points. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Utah's Harpring Gets Good News From Doctors
He underwent a colonoscopy on Wednesday and had a biopsy done on several areas in his digestive tract. Thankfully, doctors were able to rule out a number of serious health complications. It appears as though the anti-inflammatories Harpring was taking for his knee were eating away the lining in his stomach. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Jazz Jan 2008 Archive
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Yao Ming sat out the Rockets' game Sunday against Utah with an upper respiratory infection, according to a Associated Press report.
The Utah Jazz today re-assigned rookie guard Morris Almond to their NBA Development League affiliate the Utah Flash. Almond was first assigned to the Flash on Dec. 6, before being recalled by the Jazz on Jan. 8. 
Jazz forward Matt Harpring received a clean bill of health from his doctors on Thursday, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.