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4 more to trot out for Jazz today

Published: Monday, June 25, 2007 12:37 a.m. MDT
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The Jazz today will work out four more prospects in advance of Thursday's NBA Draft, including two small forwards — Jared Dudley and Dominic McGuire — who could go late in the first round.

Dudley averaged 19.0 points per game as a senior at Boston College, and McGuire averaged 13.5 points as a junior at Fresno State.

They'll be joined this morning by North Carolina small forward Reyshawn Terry, a possible second-rounder, and draft longshot Wen Mukubu, a swingman from Alabama-Birmingham.

The Jazz own the Nos. 25 and 55 picks in Thursday's draft.

HE WROTE IT: Peter May, in Sunday's Boston Globe: "There is someone out there the Celtics might be able to obtain, a former All-Star who would give them a dimension they don't have and might not have any objection (like Minnesota's Kevin Garnett) to playing in Boston: Andrei Kirilenko of the Jazz.

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"He was an All-Star in 2004. He would give the Celtics something they lack — a defensive presence and shot-blocker — and you'd have to think the Jazz would at least entertain a proposal in which Boston surrendered the fifth pick (Thursday), Theo Ratliff and his wonderful, expiring contract, and a couple young-uns. Boston might have to take back a bad contract (Matt Harpring or Derek Fisher) to make it balance, but not necessarily.

"If the Celtics sent Gerald Green, (Delonte) West, the fifth pick, and Ratliff for Kirilenko and (Utah's) 25th pick, it'd work. You could also insert (Al) Jefferson and (Sebastian) Telfair into the mix instead of Green and West, but ... I'd think long and hard about dealing Jefferson.

"Why would Utah do it? Well, for starters, the Jazz would be happy to get rid of the Kirilenko contract ... There seems to be some concern as to whether Kirilenko and (coach Jerry) Sloan can coexist. Utah also has to re-sign Deron Williams in the next year or two and, given the way he's going, he's going to demand big bucks.

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