"They usually try to do something, but I tell them I don't need anything. The thing with that is, I just try to be around my family. That's the biggest thing now because I'm away so much, so like if they could come up here during spring break or something, that's the best present for me."

But they couldn't this year because spring break for Dallas schools was last week when the Jazz were on the road. "But we play in Dallas next month, so I'll see everybody," Miles said. -->

His teammates went to dinner with him following Monday's game. "We just all hung out," Miles said. "Most of us. We hang out a lot as a team. Everybody knows me, Paul (Millsap) and Ronnie (Brewer), 'Three Amigos,' We always go together, but as a team, we're pretty close. That's a big thing for us, we're all like family. Like brothers."

"Everybody keeps asking if he feels different being of legal age now. It's just like the same. It's not like it's going to let me have this epiphany on life," Miles said. "I don't know. That's what everybody acts like 21 does, but I've been on my own basically since I was 18 almost, so it's not the same. Just feels like another year to me.

"It was a bigger deal as far as the guys, like there was this crossover or something. I'm the same, feel the same."

Miles did buy himself some presents — a matching watch, bracelet and necklace.

DON'T LIKE BOOS: Boozer and Deron Williams said Wednesday they were not fans of Jazz fans booing former teammate Derek Fisher the last time the Lakers were here. Some fans thought Fisher used his daughter's illness as an excuse to get out of Utah, getting the Jazz to let him out of his contract so he could sign with another club in a city that had the medical facilities needed for his daughter's eye cancer.

"Yeah, I heard some some of them boo. That's not really right, if you ask me," said Williams. "I don't think Fish cares. If they want to boo him, that's fine, but I don't think he deserves it."

"I was surprised," said Boozer. "I didn't expect them to boo him that much.

"We all get booed on the road," said Boozer, who's heard it big-time around the league for not re-signing with Cleveland after it let him out of his rookie contract. "We've all been through that, but I didn't expect it every time he touched (the ball).

"But the thing about Fish, he's been around for a long time. It wasn't the first time he's been booed, so it will be all right. He'll be all right," said Boozer.

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