Utah Jazz: Okur back from trip to Turkey
Abdullah Okur has had both lung-cancer and brain-tumor surgery in the last five years, and this month he's been hospitalized due to ailments including epileptic seizure and pneumonia.
According to a statement posted Sunday on Okur's personal Web site, memo13.com, his father regained consciousness on Thursday, was stable enough Saturday to undergo a tracheostomy and is scheduled to undergo a gastrostomy today.
"Memo was assured by the doctors that his father's situation had stabilized enough for the two surgeries," the statement said.
The Jazz on Sunday offered no details on Okur's availability status. But since he did make it back to Utah on Sunday night, it seems likely Okur will play when the Jazz host Phoenix tonight.
Okur left the Jazz last Monday, when they were in Philadelphia, and flew from New York to Istanbul. He missed the last four games of a five-game road trip, a stretch in which Utah went 1-3.
STILL DESPISED: He was booed practically every time he touched the ball. In the moment of quiet before the start of the national anthem, one voice yelled loud enough for most to hear, "I hate Boozer." A column in the local newspaper on Sunday rehashed it all, again.
The fine folks in Cleveland, it seems, just can't left go of Carlos Boozer's controversial departure from the fair city. It happened in 2004, yet when the Jazz fell to Cavaliers on Saturday night it was as if the move to Utah were made just yesterday.
Even Cavs star LeBron James, Boozer's former teammate in Cleveland and his teammate again on gold medal-winning Team USA's entry in this summer's Olympic Games, believes it's all old news.
But he knows it's not to fans in Cleveland, who were as grumpy about Boozer being back as they were about the Cavs' failure to win them a free chalupa during a game last week.
"Probably," James predicted for Cleveland reporters when asked before Saturday's game if he thought they'd boo. "It's over and done with but they get on us if we don't score 100 points."
As a sidenote, James added this with regard to ChalupaGate: "It's ridiculous. There are season-ticket holders who can't buy a $1 taco."
HIGH ON MO: Former Jazz guard Mo Williams, now starting at the point for Cleveland after an offseason trade from Milwaukee, finished with 20 points Saturday, including five during a pullaway 9-0 Cavaliers run in the fourth quarter.
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