SPORTS
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2009
SPORTS EDITOR | Darnell Dickson • 344-2555 • ddickson@heraldextra.com
UTAH JAZZ
One-on-One
NBA
Smacked down
With JASON FRANCHUK and NEIL K. WARNER
Warriors get big 2nd half in win over Jazz
NBA ABUZZ WITH TRADE RUMORS AS ALL-STAR BREAK NEARS
Greg Beacham THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Trade rumors are flying as the season approaches the all-star break. What player would you like to see the Jazz go after?
∫ Warner: Amare Stoudamire is intriguing. Utah may only have him for a year and a half (he’s a free agent in 2010), but maybe Phoenix would do it for Carlos Boozer to get cap relief. ∫ Franchuk: Anyone that would actually like to play in Utah. You’d think that would be simple because of the allure of young talent, the right piece realizing an NBA title could be in play and a respected head coach. But the Jazz won’t go after anyone because it’s a team with a strong nucleus under contract which hasn’t had many opportunities to play together because of injuries. Utah will bide its time.
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What do you think of the Lakers’ trade of Vladimir Radmanovic for Charlotte’s Adam Morrison? ∫ Warner: I think it’s a good trade for the Lakers. When you can give up a guy who is averaging 5.9 points per game for a player who was the third overall pick in the draft, it’s a pretty low risk move that has high potential. The deal also gives the Lakers some salarycap relief. Radmanovic is owed $6.5 million next season and $6.9 million a year later in a player option. ∫ Franchuk: I was a big Morrison fan in college, when he was the mustachioed star at Gonzaga. He’s just not much of a pro, though. He’s coming off a major knee injury and he seems to be one of those players whose never-ending emotion at the college level doesn’t equate to the much longer NBA season. Kind of like Chicago’s Joakim Noah (of two-time national champ Florida fame). The trade itself helps both teams, though, as the Lakers needed an outside scorer and Charlotte’s abyss of a franchise gets a little added depth.
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What event at the NBA All-Star Weekend interests you the most? The 3-point shootout, the slam dunk contest or the actual all-star game?
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Utah Jazz’s Mehmet Okur, left, has his shot blocked by Golden State Warriors’ Ronny Turiaf, cener, as the Warriors’ Stephen Jackson helps on defense during the first half Sunday in Oakland, Calif.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Corey Maggette scored 24 points and Stephen Jackson had 20 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists in the Golden State Warriors’ latest impressive home victory, 116-96 over the Utah Jazz on Sunday night. Kelenna Azubuike scored 16 points and C.J. Watson added 14 for the Warriors, who routed Phoenix four days earlier in Oakland behind Jackson’s first career triple-double. With Jackson again catalyzing the offense, Golden State rolled past the Jazz with a 38-point third quarter and a strong finish, eventually going ahead by 25 in the waning minutes. Ronny Turiaf had 13 points filling in for injured starting center Andris Biedrins, while Monta Ellis scored 12 and Jamal Crawford had 11 — all in the second half. Deron Williams had 31 points, 10 assists WARRIORS 116 and seven JAZZ 96 rebounds for the Jazz, who slipped back into ninth place behind the Suns in the Western Conference with their first loss in four games. Utah has lost 10 of 12 on the road heading into a five-game homestand. Mehmet Okur had 21 points and nine rebounds, and C.J. Miles scored 10 points in his return to the Utah lineup after missing two games with bronchitis. But the Jazz repeatedly failed to exploit the NBA’s worst defensive team by hitting open shots, leaving excitable coach Jerry Sloan riveted to the bench for most of the second half. Utah’s awful third quarter featured five turnovers and 8-for-21 shooting while Golden State repeatedly hit its open shots and went to the free-throw line 15 times. Golden State opened a 74-60 lead midway through the third with a 12-2 run highlighted by back-to-back 3-pointers by Crawford. Crawford hit both shots while falling onto his back with a defender in his face near the Golden State bench, thrilling the crowd. Turiaf was a solid replacement, and rookie Anthony Randolph added six points and five rebounds in just 11 minutes of relief.
NBA
UVU MEN’S BASKETBALL
Lakers hand Cavaliers first home loss of year
On the verge of history
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEVELAND — Kobe Bryant was sick. The Cleveland Cavaliers just looked it. With Bryant suffering from the flu, Lamar Odom scored a season-high 28 points — 15 in the third quarter— and Paul Gasol scored 18 as the streakbusting Los Angeles Lakers dominated the second half and handed Cleveland its first home loss this season, 101-91
Toolson shoots for 2,000-point mark against Lamar Neil K. Warner
on Sunday to complete a 6-0 road trip. Bryant was not himself. LAKERS 101 The suCAVALIERS 91 perstar vomited MARK DUNCAN/Associated Press before the game, shivered with L.A. Lakers’ Lamar Odom (7) dunks chills throughout and needed against the Cleveland Cavaliers See LAKERS, B3 on Sunday in Cleveland.
DAILY HERALD
The stage is set. Tonight, barring injury, sickness, a sudden case of amnesia or an offnight, history will be made. Utah Valley University guard Ryan Toolson needs just 12 points to become the first UVU player to reach 2,000 career points when UVU hosts Lamar tonight at 7 p.m. in the McKay Events Center. “To be completely honest
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UVU GAMEDAY Place: McKay Events Center, Time: 7 p.m. today Opponent: Lamar; Conference: Southland Radio: KSTAR 1400 AM with Steve Watts and Matt Petersen Records: UVU 11-9, Lamar 12-9 Leading scorers: UV, Ryan Toolson 24.6; Lamar, Kenny Dawkins 16.3 about it, wonderful, congratulations, but it’s like Ryan’s going to have something to eat after the game. It’s going to happen. He’s going to eat
his next meal. It’s just part of life. It’s just part of normal sequences that’s going to
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