From my first year covering the Jazz, I'll never forget Jerry Sloan joking that the greatest value of the first home preseason game was making sure his players knew how to get to the arena. It was Kyrylo Fesenko's rookie season, so Sloan sounded perfectly reasonable.    There's not a lot to love about the preseason, but Thursday's opener against Denver will have more intrigue than usual. There'll even be national interest, with the NBA set ...