"My sons are starting to get to that age where they need to concentrate on their grades," he added. "I can stay on them and tell them to get a degree, but they'll look at me and say, 'Dad, you don't have yours.' I don't want it to be like that."

MISC.: Usual Jazz starter Andrei Kirilenko was absent Monday, as expected, due to a broken bone in the tip of his left thumb. Rookie Ronnie Brewer made a second straight start in Kirilenko's place at small forward. ... Ex-Jazz and longtime New York Knicks guard John Starks reportedly is a financial backer in a new line of athletic apparel, ZipWay, which has launched by introducing breakaway sweatpants that supposedly offer smooth, easy release so fast they can be torn away from the body in only 0.3 seconds. ... Golden State's inactives Monday included healthy rookie first-round draft choice Patrick O'Bryant.

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