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So after all these years, this is it?  After all these years of holding out hope that a monumental bonehead move by Isiah Thomas would prove to be another franchise savior, this is it.  No. 9. Not even a team with a rotting Tracy McGrady and a bunch of "who's that?" question marks could help out the Utah Jazz. This shouldn't come at much of a surprise, though.  Utah General Manager/Vice President of Basketball Operations ...

Well, boom goes the dynamite.  That's the sound of the Utah Jazz playoff window crumbling to the ground below after sustaining another devastating injury.  Starting center Memo Okur ruptured his left Achilles tendon Saturday night in Denver in Game One of the first-round matchup with the Nuggets.  Okur, already bothered by a lingering Achilles issue on the same foot, received an injection 90 minutes prior to the series tip off.  The rupture occurred ...

The Los Angeles Lakers have now lost three games in a row for the first time in three seasons; the first time since they acquired Pau Gasol. It was in late January of 2008 that the Lakers last dropped three straight. At San Antonio. At Dallas. Home against Cleveland. That was also the year L.A. was gift-wrapped an All-Star for Kwame Brown and that dude that went all Doc Holliday with Gilbert ...

Everything good needs replacing. Some raspy-voiced, crooning dude holding a guitar said that once. Forgot his name. I doubt Jazz general manager Kevin OÆConnorÆs heard the song, but it just so happens that unlimited lyric paints a pathway directly to the front door of OÆConnor. How can you gage this Utah franchise? Generally strong as the iron-rod, it took a catastrophic hit last season with the loss of owner Larry H. Miller. Tattooed in fervent ...

Michael Jordan ruined my childhood. Saying I will forever have nightmares clouding my thoughts on account of Jordan is selling myself pretty short. I couldn't look at a picture of the guy without welling up and wanting to lose my lunch. The memories of watching the elegant rise, fling, and fall of the basketball, the clock reading 5.2 seconds, and the prototypical pose cemented it all. Forever and ever. That's what true mastery is. Being so ...