Hooped Up

The Utah Jazz are one banged up unit with a laundry list of injuries on their roster.  Carlos Boozer is their latest injured player and he know awaits a MRI to see what repairs are needed to get him back to the line up.  My ironic suggestion for a injured player with the last name Boozer in a Mormon state…a tall Guinness.

“Jazz All-Star power forward Carlos Boozer is undergoing an MRI on his strained quad muscle this morning. Boozer’s status for Friday night’s game at San Antonio won’t be known until the team gets the tests results later today. Boozer was injured with 3:55 left in the Jazz’s 105-94 victory over Milwaukee on Wednesday night at EnergySolutions Arena. He scored 20 points and grabbed 11 rebounds before hobbling off the court after a scramble for a loose ball.”

Salt Lake Tribune

Deron Williams could be inserted into the Utah Jazz line up as early as tonight for his first game of the season against the 76ers . With all the injury news these days I’m glad some body’s coming back.

“Point guard Deron Williams informed the Jazz this morning that he will try to make his 2008-09 NBA season debut tonight, when Utah visits Philadelphia in its second outing of a five-game road trip. “He told me he’s gonna play,” Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said after the team’s morning shootaround at Wachovia Center here. “We’ll probably play him sparingly. “You know how he is,” Sloan added. “He might want to get out there five minutes and say he feels great. But we’re gonna try to watch him pretty close.” 

Deseret News

Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller does not want you to see the latest Kevin Smith comedy titled “Zack And Miri Make A Porno” so bad, that he has pulled it from his chain of megaplex theaters.  Don’t worry thought, he’s okay with Saw V because a guy only gets cut in half and he knows guidance counselors and sex ed teachers have covered that chapter already.

“We feel [Zack and Miri] is very close to an NC-17 with its graphic nudity and graphic sex,” the chain’s General Manager Cal Gunderson [who I guaran-goddamn-tee you hasn't seen it] said. Asked why Megaplex has no problem showing the R-rated, ultra-violent “Saw V,” which shows a man forced to crush his own hands to escape a pendulum cutting him in half, Gunderson said: “No comment.” 

NY Post

Below is the trailer for “Zack And Miri Make A Porno” out today and it’s SFW, unless you work for Larry Miller. Read the rest of this entry »

Williams being out of the Jazz line up is terrible news for the Utah in the deep west where every games counts and even worse news for fantasy owners hoping for a good start to the season.  

“The Jazz now say point guard Deron Williams will be out at least two weeks because of the sprained left ankle he sustained in Saturday night’s preseason game at Chicago. That means he’s likely to miss the team’s Oct. 29 regular-season opener vs. Denver, plus possibly one or two more games – including a pair against the Elton Brand-less Los Angeles Clippers, who have an injured point guard of their own in Baron Davis.”

Deseret News

Every season AK47 seems to be falling out of the spotlight with the Jazz and this year might be the year he is relegated to the role of sixth man.

“He has started 371 of 492 games during his seven regular seasons in Utah, and another 33 of 38 playoff games with the Jazz. He’s also started all 171 games – regular season, and postseason – over the past two NBA campaigns. But after their 99-90 preseason-opening win over the Los Angeles Lakers late Tuesday night, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said he may consider bringing small forward Andrei Kirilenko off the bench.”

Deseret News

Kyle Korver is officially the the kickball king! As a follow up to the Kyle Korver post from last week, and his attempt to break the world record for the longest kickball game ever played.  After 24 hours and 15 minutes, 164 full innings,  213 total runs scored, and popped 5 kickballs a new record was set and $10,000 was raised for local kids.  Awesome!!!

Already, overseas kickball teams are now clamoring to sign, the Michael Jordan of kickball and a film is in the works with Ashton Kutcher in the lead role.

Via Our Sports Central

Today, the Facebook profile for Kyle Korver will read “Kyle Korver is playing kick ball”, and his Myspace mood will be kicky. That’s because Kyle Korver and his friends will be playing a whole lotta kick ball over the next 25 hours for charity, with the goal of raising $10,000 for the Helping Hand Rescue Mission in North Philadelphia.  

If you live in Philly, you can go down to show your support for this kick @ss cause.

“Jazz forward Kyle Korver will be shooting for — or, more accurately, kicking for — a Guinness World Record today. In an effort to raise money for one of his favorite charities, Korver will be part of a group hoping to play the longest kickball game in history. To kick the current record to the curb, Korver and friends will have to play longer than 24 hours.”

Desert News

Will Andrei Kirilenko go back to Russia and spurn the NBA?

“CSKA wants to offer Kirilenko a contract to rival that of other NBA stars and what seems to be the appeal in this case for CSKA is that Kirilenko, doesn’t occupy the position of non-russian player, which allows CSKA to keep him in the roster at all times, the same reason they got Khryapa and Khaun,i.e. to get ahead of the competition. It also says that this might be the reason that Kirilenko has not renewed with the Utah Jazz yet.”

The Hoop

Last year, Andrei Kirilenko led his Russian men’s national basketball team in the 2007 European Championships.

This Friday, he’ll lead — in a different way — Russia’s entire Olympic sports delegation in the Beijing Summer Games’ opening ceremonies. Kirilenko has been selected to carry the Russian flag as he and his Olympic peers enter into and parade around Beijing’s National Stadium.

“Representing in front of the world, you know, is a big honor,” said the longtime Utah Jazz forward, “and I will try to do my best.”

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