Painful Partings

The Utah Jazz trimmed their roster down to 13 players today, in accordance with regular season roster rules. Although he said it was a difficult and painful thing to do, Jerry Sloan was forced to cut Sundiata Gaines, Othyus Jeffers, Ryan Thompson and Demetris Nichols from the roster. They all have done good things (especially Gaines and the famous buzzer-beater against the Cavs last year), but they had to go. Jeremy Evans is now the only Jazz player with an non-guaranteed contract. He has been pretty impressive and fun to watch this preseason.

The final preseason game is tomorrow night against the Sacramento Kings. The game is in Salt Lake, and it will be televised on Fox Sports Rocky Mountain, so you might as well cancel all previous engagements, get into something cozy, and watch the new-look Jazz finish off their preseason rampage. Or at least flip back and forth between the ALCS and the Jazz. Deron Williams will not play tomorrow for personal reasons, but it looks like Al Jefferson will be playing despite a minor hand injury.

We have less than a week until the regular season tips off (Wednesday night against Denver)!!