Here's injury report for Jazz, Kings today

Published: Sunday, Feb. 5 2006 12:00 a.m. MST

SACRAMENTO — After the Jazz and the Kings slugged it out Friday night at the Delta Center, here's some of the injury-related fallout in advance of this afternoon's Utah-Sacramento rematch at Arco Arena:

Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko sprained his left pinkie finger, and Jazz guard Milt Palacio sprained his right big toe in the 89-79 win, but both are expected to play today, a Jazz spokesman said Saturday.

Kings forward Ron Artest, who exited Friday's game with just more than five minutes remaining due to a right-side hip pointer, is listed as "day-to-day" — but also is listed as a "probable starter" in pregame notes compiled by Sacramento's public-relations staff.

The Jazz, as expected, also will be without still-out Carlos Boozer (strained hamstring), Gordan Giricek (Achilles tendinitis), Robert Whaley (arthroscopic knee surgery) and Andre Owens (stress-fractured tibia).

Giricek, Whaley and Owens — none of whom played Friday — did not make the trip.

Usual Sacramento starting center Brad Miller remains out and is not expected to play because of a fractured thumb tip. Miller also is listed as "day-to-day," and hopes to play Tuesday vs. Memphis, but he is not among Sacramento's "probable starters" for today.

HUH? After the Jazz's win Friday, Artest took a glass half-full look back at the game.

"We gave away the lead . . . but we showed at times we can (go) into somebody else's building and get a win," he said. "We could have easily won this game . . . and that's a positive."

Reality check: Sacramento led by 12 going into the fourth quarter and lost by 10.

THAT GAME: The Kings went without a field goal in Friday's fourth quarter, shooting 0-for-20 — the first time they played a full quarter without a basket from the field since shooting blanks in the first quarter of a 128-92 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Feb. 4, 1987.

Five days after that fateful day, before playing another game, then-Sacramento head coach Phil Johnson — now Jerry Sloan's top assistant with the Jazz — was canned by the Kings.

MILLER ON DANTLEY: Jazz owner Larry H. Miller recently told the Rocky Mountain News he will take a "closer look" at perhaps retiring the No. 4 of ex-Jazz star Adrian Dantley, now a Denver Nuggets assistant coach.

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