<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">When Kevin O'Connor came knocking, not once but twice this past summer, Larry H. Miller answered. When O'Connor put out his pail and asked for it to be filled so he could afford two desperately needed big men, Mehmet Okur and Carlos Boozer, Miller opened his wallet and donated a combined $118 million over the next six years. That is on top of the combined $32 million over four years he is paying for point guard Carlos Arroyo and shooting guard Gordan Giricek. When O'Connor needed another $86 million to extend the contract of All-Star forward Andrei Kirilenko for six seasons, he eventually got the dough. And when Miller ? whose Jazz open the 2004-05 NBA regular season on Wednesday night at the Delta Center against the Los Angeles Lakers ? pondered what he had done, he could not help but allow his thoughts to meander forward, not back. "We're pretty young," the Jazz owner said, "and we should be pretty good for the next five to six years."</div> <div align="center">Link </div>
