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From his third-row seat at center court, Wes Matthews looked every bit a proud father Friday night, down to his navy blue sweater and light blue polo shirt -- Jazz colors, of course.

"In college I was mostly a passer but here I can shoot as well as pass," explained Galil/Gilboa's Jeremy Pargo after his team manhandled Barak Netanya 109-82 on Monday evening.

Sometimes too much of a good thing is not so great after all. That's the approach the Jazz seemed to be taking as they headed out on their annual pre-Christmas trip, this one a five-gamer opening here tonight at New Jersey.

Friday, December 11, 2009 at 8:10 p.m. LOS ANGELES - Just when Hot Rod Hundley thought he was out of basketball broadcasting, the Los Angeles Lakers pulled him back in - for a few games, anyway.

Ever the perfectionist, Schoolcraft College women's basketball coach Karen Lafata gives her team a "B plus" grade entering the semester break.

For a second straight game, Andrei Kirilenko, Kyrylo Fesenko, Kyle Korver and Ronnie Price all sat out for the Jazz.

Greetings from Energy Solutions, where I will working alongside the legendary Brian Schmitz blogging tonight's Magic-Jazz game.

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's hot streak got the NBA 's attention. The league honored the Jazz power forward Monday as its Western Conference player of the week for games played last Monday through Sunday.

The D-League's Utah Flash are trying to reunite Michael Jordan and Bryon Russell.

Apparently the Utah Jazz will miss Matt Harpring and his hard-nosed style of play quite a bit more than the rest of the NBA will.

With no offense intended to Kermit the Frog, the jolly giant on vegetable cans and environmentalists, Deron Williams admits he's never worn as much green as he and his Utah Jazz teammates will sport tonight.

The longest tenured coach in American professional sports isn't going anywhere. The Utah Jazz announced Wednesday night that Jerry Sloan has signed a contract extension that will keep him with the team through 2010-11. It will be Sloan's 23rd season after taking over as head coach of the Jazz on Dec.

The Jazz practiced with just eight healthy players Sunday, and that could be all they have available for tonight's game against the Memphis Grizzlies.

Karl Malone and Scottie Pippen, superstar forwards of NBA in the 1990s, headed the list of candidates for the 2010 Basketball Hall of Fame.

Paul Millsap of the Utah Jazz dunks over Brandon Roy of the Portland Trail Blazers during NBA action Saturday, November 28 2009 at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City.

Now in his seventh year, Korver never has missed more than eight games in a season before this one.

On Wednesday, Allen Iverson supposedly was retiring. By Thursday, the backpedaling already had begun.

In eight games as a starter this season, Jazz small forward Andrei Kirilenko averaged 13.5 points and 4.6 rebounds.

Few things put a hop in my step like seeing Jerry Sloan playing two rookies in crunch time of must-win games.