Utah Jazz draftees top summer league roster

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:55 p.m. MDT
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Not surprisingly, the Utah Jazz's summer-league roster will include their two recent draft picks and their only sophomore.

What the Jazz's entry into the 2009 Orlando Pro Summer League won't include, however, is their biggest player.

On Tuesday, the franchise announced its expected roster for next week's summer league in Florida where the Jazz will play because the Rocky Mountain Revue was canceled. And while it includes second-year center Kosta Koufos, first-round pick Eric Maynor and second-rounder Goran Suton, returning big man Kyrylo Fesenko's name is noticeably missing from the list.

Calls to his Colorado-based agent were not answered on Tuesday, but it's likely the 7-foot-1 Fesenko, whose third year of his rookie contract was recently picked up by the Jazz, is choosing instead to participate with the Ukrainian national team in European competition this summer.

Several players with local ties will be on the Jazz team, which begins a mini-camp today at RDV SportsPlex in Maitland, Fla.

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Utah State post player Gary Wilkinson, who went undrafted after working out for the Jazz, has accepted an invitation along with Kevin Lyde, a former Jazz camp participant, and Utah Flash players Kevin Kruger and Andre Ingram. Former Aggie Jaycee Carroll will play with the New Orleans Hornets.

Others listed on the Jazz roster include former NBA players James Augustine, Cedric Bozeman and Justin Reed; and first-year players Jim Baron, Josh Duncan, Wes Mathews, Reyshawn Terry and Larry Turner.

Derrick Brown, a second-round pick from Charlotte, will also be on the team because the Bobcats do not have their own summer-league team this year.

The host Magic, Boston, Indiana and Oklahoma City will also have teams along with a split squad comprised of players from New Jersey and Philadelphia.

Utah's first game is against Boston at 5 p.m. on July 6, with the Jazz facing the other four teams over the following four days.

ANDREI CAP-KILLER-ENKO: Andrei Kirilenko should be laughing all the way to the bank, if you ask ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan, who listed the lanky Jazz forward among his Top 15 Dead Money Players and Cap-Killing Contracts in an article Tuesday.

The NBA writer claimed the Jazz "were throwing mad money around" in 2004 when they inked a long-term deal with Kirilenko that will pay him $16.4 million for 2009-10 and $17.8 million the following and final year of the contract. Because AK-47's production has dropped — whatever happened to those five-by-fives, anyway? — Sheridan lists the Russian's jackpot as the No. 6 cap-killer.

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