Utah Jazz: Players have missed 66 man-games
That's more than double what future Hall of Famers John Stockton and Karl Malone missed in their 37 combined seasons playing for the Jazz.
It's also 21 more than Jazz players missed all of last season, and though perhaps unlikely to actually soar this high it's on pace for more than 270 total games lost by the time this season is done.
Yet there is some solace within the massive cloud that continues to hover, even now that starting point guard Deron Williams is back from a preseason ankle injury and two other key cogs sixth man Andrei Kirilenko and All-Star power forward Carlos Boozer may be on the verge of returning.
Before getting to them, though, the latest update from the Jazz infirmary is as follows:
• Kirilenko (irritated right ankle), reserve forward Matt Harpring (strained lower back) and reserve big man Kyrylo Fesenko (same) all are listed as game-time decisions for tonight's late-starting ESPN-televised meeting at home with the Toronto Raptors, and Kirilenko is hopeful he can go.
• Power forward Paul Millsap who has been starting in Boozer's place, and who had a double-double in Wednesday's home loss to Miami is being called "probable" because of a left big toe he sprained against the Heat.
• And reserve big man Jarron Collins (inflamed right elbow) remains out long-term.
And now, the silver linings ...
One is that reserve shooting guard Morris Almond, the only 2007 NBA first-round draft choice whose third-season contract option was not picked up, is logging lots of minutes and actually impressing the Jazz brass.
When earlier this season the team decided against exercising its option, there was talk that the Jazz were trying to trade Almond.
They didn't.
And while it still remains likelier than not that Almond will be playing elsewhere next season, such chatter at least for the time being, especially after double-digit scoring nights and decent defensive efforts in Utah's last two outings has been squelched.
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