Harpring still not fully healthy

With All-Star forward Andrei Kirilenko missing his first game after partially tearing the medial collateral ligament in his right knee, Matt Harpring made his first start of the season at small forward Tuesday night against Phoenix.

Harpring, though, is not exactly the picture of health either.

The Jazz's co-captain had season-ending surgery on his right knee last January, and he has played four games since missing three in November because of a bone bruise just below his left knee.

He went a season-high 41 minutes in Utah's 115-102 loss to the Suns, scoring 19 points on 9-of-15 shooting and pulling down seven rebounds.

"There's days I feel I'm back, but I still have my days that I know I'm not," said Harpring, who started at small forward before getting hurt last season. "It's going to take a little while. The doctor told me you had to be patient with this, so I'm just taking it as I go."

As for Kirilenko, who was seen hobbling without crutches Tuesday, he is likely out 3-to-6 weeks as a result of the injury sustained last Saturday night at San Antonio.

Before he returns, Kirilenko probably will take part in multiple scrimmages so he can get re-accustomed to physical play.

"Hopefully," Jazz trainer Gary Briggs said, "he'll mentally be able to adjust to having people bump in his leg."

In addition to Kirilenko, the Jazz put 7-foot center Curtis Borchardt on the injured list Tuesday due to inflammation in his surgically repaired right foot.

Borchardt did not play Saturday at San Antonio because he could not comfortably push off the foot during pre-game warmups. A CT Scan proved negative for bone damage, but he went on the injured list after Tuesday's morning shootaround anyway.

The Jazz activated rookie forward Kris Humphries to replace Kirilenko on the active roster, then activated 7-foot-3 center Aleksandar Radojevic when Borchardt was shelved.

Both Humphries, a first-round draft pick last year, and Radojevic, a free agent who stuck with the Jazz out of training camp, had been on the injured list due to knee tendinitis.

Neither, though, was really hurt, and Umpires wound up logging a career-high 26 minutes Tuesday.