Telfair experienced soreness in his sprained left
ankle as the result of his increased rehabilitation workload. He’s
already missed 10 games and won’t play today against Utah.
 
Coach Randy Wittman said Saturday that Telfair might
need another week or two to be able to play in a game. The regular
season ends April 16, so there isn’t much time for Telfair to recover.
 
Hansbrough’s response was a bit different from the one McCants had when
he made SI’s national cover for our season-preview issue. "When Rashad
was on the cover we were flying to Santa Clara, and we had to hit two
airports because we flew commercial," says a UNC insider. "Rashad went
into the newsstand and just stood there until the people next to him
looked at him. Then at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley he comes
downstairs and throws a copy of it on the coffee table in the lobby and
then sat behind it on the couch until people walked by."
 
Classic McCants. (I still remember bumping into McCants on the floor in
St. Louis after UNC won the 2005 title, and the first thing he said to
me wasn’t about the championship or his teammates or even his own
performance. It was this: "Jay-Z’s here tonight.")
 
 
 
The final four games in a six-game stretch where the Wolves face
playoff-bound teams, including two against the Jazz to conclude the
teams’ season series. The Wolves didn’t play the Pistons for the
season’s first five months and now face them twice in two weeks.
 
 
Blaine’s Patrick O’Bryant, Golden State’s little-used second-year
center, sent himself to the NBA Developmental League to show his skills
to scouts — note to Target Center — as he approaches free agency this
summer.
 
 
 
Associated Press on Isaiah Rider: 
The 37-year-old Rider was driving a car that failed to stop at an
intersection about 2:30 a.m. in the city’s Skid Row district, Officer
Norma Eisenman said.
 
Officers checking the license plates discovered the car had been
reported stolen from South Los Angeles, and Rider was arrested, police
said.
 
He remained in the Los Angeles County jail on $25,000 bail, according
to information on the Web site for the county Sheriff’s Department.
 
 
 
Postgame quotes from the loss at San Antonio 
 
 
 
Previews of this afternoon’s game against Utah:
 
 
Click here for the forum’s game thread 
 
 
The Jazz completes its season series with the Wolves with two games —
this afternoon at Target Center, Wednesday in Salt Lake City — in four
days. Wolves coach Randy Wittman will know what to expect, which
doesn’t mean he can stop it. The Jazz is 32-9 since it acquired shooter
Kyle Korver from Philadelphia in December, but it lost to the Wolves
last month in its first visit to Target Center.