Williams enjoying free rein

The newspaper reported that an Oct.10 letter from the program to the courts "stated that Clark's treatment was ongoing and that Clark was current on his medication for seizures and would be evaluated by a medical doctor for possible depression and bipolar disorder."

The letter was signed by Gus Gerard, chief executive officer and program director of Extended Aftercare Inc., a Houston-based rehabilitation clinic. Gerard is a former NBA player himself whose career ended when he released by the Jazz (without ever playing a regular-season for Utah) in 1981.

HE SAID IT: Sloan, on the Jazz: "Our guys, I don't know, they're not a real jump up-and-down emotional-kind of guys, I don't think. They try to come play and go home." ... Andrei Kirilenko on getting a rebound with three opponents hanging on him Tuesday — "Well, once in a while you should do that."

QUAKE TAKES: The Jazz didn't notice Tuesday night's 5.6 Bay Area earthquake. "I didn't know anything about it," said Sloan. "(Strength coach) Mark McKown said he thought he had, what is it when you lose your balance? He thought he had vertigo. He said, 'Do you have vertigo?' I said I didn't think so." Sloan recalled a Southern Illinois quake in the 1960s, about a 6.0, that damaged his home.

"People were telling us, and we had no idea," Brewer said of the shake. "We thought people were telling us how loud the fans were."

Boozer said, "See, now I thought 5.6 was huge, and they said it wasn't." Though Alaska recorded 239 earthquakes in the last week, the Juneau resident said, "We don't have earthquakes, or if we do, I just didn't feel it that much when I was there." He recalled some quakes in Los Angeles, "but they were 3s, 4s."

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