Jazz lose overtime heartbreaker to Lakers, 90-87

Millsap scored to make it a one-point game. Howard forced Bryant into a miss with 17.9 seconds and grabbed the rebound, giving Utah one last chance to pull off the unthinkable.

Corbin considered calling a timeout, but he let the Jazz fly down the court to keep the Laker defenders from setting up. Gordon Hayward ended up with the ball behind the 3-point line, considered stepping up for a mid-range jumper but drove and dished to Jefferson underneath.

"It was quick. All I knew, I had it, lost it and I tried to get it up real fast because I know the clock was going down," Jefferson explained. "And Andrew Bynum, he's a big boy and he threw it right back at me."

Byrant sank two free throws and then swatted Harris' off-balance desperation heave to clinch the Lakers' first road victory of the season.

The Jazz, who next host Deron Williams, Mehmet Okur and their New Jersey Nets on Saturday, were bummed but not broken up too much by the loss.

"They fought the entire game," Corbin said.

"To lose to the Lakers, there are worse things. We could have won that game," Bell said. "We probably should have won that game. But when you get right down to it, we were slugging away with them all the way until the last .7 seconds.

"Again, if you measure us against where we started this season, I think you can't take anything but good stuff away from this. Obviously a loss is a loss, but I do think we're headed in the right direction."

Their next chance to beat L.A. will come at home on Feb. 4.

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