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Bulls 102, Jazz 101
After watching Tuesday's game, just wondering if anybody else flashed back to last season, when the Jazz were playing the Bulls and the long rebound from Derrick Rose's jumper went right to Larry Hughes, who let fly with a game-winner at the buzzer? Different continent, same result, I guess, although it was the preseason and neither Jerry Sloan nor Vinny Del Negro opted...
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October 06, 2009
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Live from London
Believe it or not, this trip to London has been less rough than your garden variety back-to-back during the regular season. I've had a lot worse weekends going from New Orleans to Memphis on no sleep than going from Salt Lake City to London over two days. There's a host of logistical issues that would have to be resolved before they could...
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October 04, 2009
Jazz 103, Nuggets 87
The replacement referees were competent. Carlos Boozer heard cheers from the crowd. Those were the two things to take away from the Jazz's preseason opener Thursday, a game that should best be forgotten by lunch Friday. With overseas trips, the Jazz and the Nuggets played their first preseason game less than a week after opening training camp...
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October 02, 2009
Monday report
You might have missed the news this summer, but the WNBA for the first time allowed teams to have game jersey sponsors. The Phoenix Mercury wore jerseys featuring the logo for LifeLock, an identity theft prevention company, while the Los Angeles Sparks wore jerseys sponsored by Farmers Insurance. The NBA hasn't gone as far yet, but this season...
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September 28, 2009
Williams sizes up his understudies
I talked to Deron Williams the other day, and he was certainly in a good mood.I asked the Jazz's incumbent point guard about first-round draft pick Eric Maynor.His response?"Should I be scared?" Williams said.It wasn't the answer I expected, so I felt compelled to follow up my original question. I asked Williams how he planned to mentor Maynor, who will likely end...
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September 28, 2009
The final hours of the off-season
If nothing else, this preseason is going to be more interesting than last, when the Jazz had 15 players with guaranteed contracts and no roster spots left to claim. They will enter camp with 13 players under contract this year, one of whom will be two time zones away in Matt Harpring. The Jazz have to carry a minimum of 13 players under NBA rules...
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September 24, 2009
Malone's stepfather dies
I met Ed Turner a couple of times over the years. I remember him being a quiet man with an ever-present grin who obviously preferred staying in the background. Turner, the stepfather of former Utah Jazz star Karl Malone, died Tuesday after suffering a stroke about three weeks ago. Over the years, I remember Malone often crediting Turner as being someone who helped him grow up...
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September 23, 2009
The Harpring situation
There's been a lot of questions all summer about the financial implications of Matt Harpring's status. To the best of my understanding, here's the breakdown. For starters, Harpring's $6.5 million salary for 2009-10 became fully guaranteed midway through last season. Although there were injury provisions in his contract, they were all related to Harpring's surgically repaired...
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September 23, 2009
Koufos, Greece lose in Eurobasket semis
Jazz center Kosta Koufos played the final 7:14 of Greece's 82-64 loss to Spain in Saturday's semifinals of the European championships in Poland. By the time Koufos checked in, Greece already was trailing by 22 in the fourth quarter. Koufos finished with four points and three rebounds and went 2-for-5 from the field, including a layup blocked by Marc Gasol...
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September 19, 2009
Koufos, Greece advance to Euro semifinals
Kosta Koufos' chances of returning home with a medal increased Friday as Greece edged Turkey 76-74 in overtime in the European championships quarterfinals. Greece advances to play Spain in a Saturday semifinal and clinched a spot at next year's world championships in Turkey with the victory. Koufos did not play - - he has been battling stomach flu/food poisoning in recent days...
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September 18, 2009
Ronald Dupree
There are going to be a lot of folks in Orem rooting for Ronald Dupree when he goes to training camp with the Jazz next week. By all accounts Dupree was a great guy who helped the Utah Flash to the D-League Finals last season. Most fans have an appreciation for just how tough life in the D-League can be, with players making $30,000 a season along...
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September 14, 2009
Talk from the Hall of Fame
Ten of the best quotes from Hall of Fame induction weekend that I have not yet used, just to put a cap on the enshrinement of Jazz coach Jerry Sloan and and former point guard John Stockton:-- Asked what his family members' reaction was when they first heard the news that he had been elected to the Hall of Fame, Stockton said, "I don't know that my family had a lot...
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September 14, 2009
On speeches, dodgeball and stirring it up
There was a lot to like about Jerry Sloan's speech Friday night as he was inducted in the Basketball Hall of Fame - - particularly Sloan's description of "drugstore cowboys," as borrowed from his old basketball coach in McLeansboro, Ill. Those who were listening carefully also might have noted that Sloan included Carlos Boozer...
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September 13, 2009
Malone surprises Sloan, Stockton
A couple of things today: No. 1: Karl Malone missed the Hall of Fame induction ceremony of Jerry Sloan and John Stockton on Friday night, but according to ESPN, he flew in from his home in Ruston, La., to join them for Saturday night's invitation-only ring ceremony and dinner at the Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino in Uncasville, Conn. Sloan and Stockton knew that Malone'...
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September 13, 2009
A long way from home
Let me tell you something that probably you already know. It is a long, long way from Salt Lake City to Springfield, Mass., home of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. I left my house at 5 a.m. on Thursday for my seven o'clock flight. I flew to Detroit, where I had an hour-long layover and before continuing on to Hartford, Conn. I must tell you, however, that the folks at...
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September 10, 2009
Thursday report
There's going to be a lot more interest than usual in the Jazz's Oct. 1 preseason opener against Denver if the NBA does in fact have to use replacement referees for the game. Talks between the league and the referees union have broken down, with the union bracing for a lockout. Here's a link to today's ESPN.com story about the impasse: http://sports...
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September 10, 2009
An astrology lesson
I have never been into astrology or horoscopes. The only thing I know is, because I was born on April 4, I'm an Aries. Just like John Stockton and Jerry Sloan. This week, while gathering material for stories about the induction of Stockton and Sloan into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, I was double-checking their ages and looked up their birthdays. Stockton was born...
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September 09, 2009
Tuesday report
Kosta Koufos totaled 10 points and two rebounds in 13 minutes in Greece's 76-68 victory over Croatia on Tuesday at the European championships in Poland. Greece is now 2-0 and can finish the first round of group play undefeated with a victory Wednesday against Israel. The Greeks are expected to play Germany, Russia and France in the next round of group play....
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September 08, 2009
Looking ahead to the Hall
We had the chance to visit Tuesday with Jazz coach Jerry Sloan for a half-hour or so, a week-and-half before he will be inducted (along with some guy named Jordan) in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. Of course, after probing for the perfect quote about his coaching career and going into the Hall with John Stockton...
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September 01, 2009
Denver and Utah: Trading places
If you were describing the circumstances by which an NBA team would spend $82 million in payroll this season, the Denver Nuggets instantly would jump to mind as past luxury-tax payers coming off a run to the Western Conference finals. And if you were describing the circumstances by which a team would sell draft picks, neglect to re-sign players...
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August 31, 2009
The Boozer Billboard Challenge
If you've been driving along the Wasatch Front the past couple of weeks, you probably couldn't help but see the Jazz's new billboards. The Jazz are selling what they're calling "You Pick ‘Em Plans," where fans can create their own ticket package for as little as $135 for five games. As part of their ad campaign, the...
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August 27, 2009
A month to go
Believe it or not, the Jazz will hold their first training camp practice a month from today on Saturday, Sept. 26. The Jazz are allowed to open camp three days earlier than other teams because of the preseason trip they're making to Europe. This is the time of year when teams go quiet, by and large, but the Jazz still have several issues worth...
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August 26, 2009
O'Connor and 9/11
Utah Jazz general manager Kevin O'Connor's father was a New York City cop for 24 years. His uncle was a fireman and a cousin is one who, on 9/11, lost 25 percent of those in his "rotation" in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. O'Connor also has boyhood friends who are firefighters, including some who died. He says if he hadn't become a...
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August 23, 2009
More about O'Connor
Some leftovers from interviews I conducted for a story on Kevin O'Connor's 10th anniversary with the Jazz, which is scheduled to run in Sunday's paper:--- Larry H. Miller Group CEO Greg Miller, New Jersey Nets president Rod Thorn, coach Jerry Sloan and O'Connor's wife, Linda, all spoke of his character when I talked to them. "First of all," Miller...
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August 22, 2009
O'Connor has the boss in his corner
I talked to Greg Miller at his Jordan Commons office late Thursday afternoon as part of the legwork for a story about Jazz vice president of basketball operations Kevin O'Connor that is scheduled to run in Sunday's Tribune. Among the things I learned: No. 1, Miller is firmly in O'Connor's corner, when it comes to the job he is doing. No. 2, Miller reads...
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August 20, 2009
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