Practice News Story 8: Sports

Utah Jazz Wins Against Los Angeles Clippers

Posted: 2:54 p.m. MST, March 22, 2007

LOS ANGELES—The Utah Jazz played an exciting game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night. The score at the end of the forth quarter was 106-99. This win for the Jazz ended their four game losing streak.

In the first quarter the Clippers were ahead 22-13 and continued to hold the lead through the second quarter. After half-time the Jazz came back strong with a 10 point lead over the Clippers during the third quarter. Closing in at the end of the game with a tie score at 97, Mehmet Okur shot a three pointer putting the Jazz in the lead once again. This carried them to their victory over the Clippers.

Paul Milsap a had really great game scoring 15 points and had seven rebounds. Derek Fisher scored 12 points and had 15 assists. When asked about his feelings on the game Fisher replied, “It’s a good game. It was fun to have the energy we had tonight.” Elton Brand of the Clippers also did very well despite the loss of his team. He scored 33 points for his team. “I took the 3 pointer … just to get us back in the game. It was tough to miss that shot,” Brand said about his attempt to get the Clippers caught up to the Jazz in the forth quarter.

The coach of the Jazz, Jerry Sloane, was very pleased with his team. He said that he really didn’t make any changes but rather just gave more encouragement to his team to pull them out of their losing streak. “It’s great that we are heading to the playoffs this year.” This was a great victory for the Jazz. We’ll see if they can hold on to the momentum for the game against the Grizzlies this Saturday.