Utah Jazz: Carlos Boozer, Andrei Kirilenko out for regular-season finale

SALT LAKE CITY — Neither starting power forward Carlos Boozer nor usual starting forward Andrei Kirilenko will play when the Jazz close their 2009-10 NBA regular season against Phoenix tonight.

Boozer will sit out because of the muscle strained he sustained late in the first quarter of Tuesday night's game at Golden State.

The Jazz's leading scorer and rebounder underwent an MRI exam earlier today, and the Jazz are now calling the injury a strained right-side oblique muscle — a strained stomach muscle, in other words.

Kirilenko won't play because of the strained left calf that's kept him out of 14 of Utah's previous 16 games.

Backup Paul Millsap, who had 10 points and a career-high 24 rebounds against the Warriors, will start in Boozer's place. C.J. Miles will open in place of Kirilenko, as Miles has throughout his Kirilenko's absence.

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