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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