Utah Jazz sting the Hornets
You didn't miss much drama Wednesday night.
The Jazz merely took care of business instead, blowing out the New Orleans Hornets 116-90 in a KJZZ-televised game at sold-out EnergySolutions Arena.
Utah saved the nail-biting stuff for must-see games everyone can watch on FSN, a consolation prize of sorts for those caught in the middle of the KJZZ-DirecTV squabble the team-affiliated station wants money from the satellite subscriber for its programming, and is denying DirecTV retransmission rights until it pays up.
Which is not to suggest those watching on Dish, Comcast, in person and with tin foil on the antenna were treated to anything less than an all-out effort from several with the Jazz, most notably power forward Paul Millsap and point guard Deron Williams.
Millsap merely scored a game-high 27 points and pulled down a game-high 14 rebounds, extending his NBA-high active streak of double-doubles to 19.
"He's just a monster down there," teammate Kyle Korver said Millsap, who played 38 minutes while All-Star power forward Carlos Boozer awaits Friday's arthroscopic knee surgery.
It's apparent, too, that if Millsap is a truck bed, Williams is the one behind the wheel.
The USA Basketball Olympic Team point guard scored only eight points, but he dished eight assists while seeing to it that 21-15 Utah beat New Orleans for a fifth straight time at home.
And he did so despite being so sick Jazz coach Jerry Sloan wasn't certain if he'd even be available.
"He was under the weather all day," Korver said, "and you could tell."
"I didn't know if he was gonna play for sure," Sloan added.
But oh, is he ever glad he did.
"Most of the time, what he does it makes us go," Sloan said. "There's no question about that."
Williams, truth be told, never had any doubts himself about playing.
He admitted to being much less than 100 percent ever since rising from a Tuesday nap with a cold and feeling not quite right.
"My throat's been hurting the last couple days. ... I wasn't feeling so good," he said. "I woke up and, headache. My throat was killing me. I just couldn't breathe. Just congested."
It didn't get any better Wednesday night, especially as counterpart Chris Paul Williams' teammate on gold medal-winning Team USA helped New Orleans jump to a 33-29 first-quarter lead.
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