<div align="center"><font color="Navy">Utah Jazz</font> (23-51) @ <font color="Teal">New Orleans Hornets</font> (18-56)</div> When: Friday 8th April, 8:00 PM (EST) Where: New Orleans Arena Local TV: CST / FSN National TV: NBALP <div align="center">Likely Starters</div> <div align="center"><font color="Navy">Jazz</font> <font size="1">Howard Eisley, Gordan Giricek, Matt Harpring, Mehmet Okur, Ben Handlogten</font></div> <div align="center"><font color="Teal">Hornets</font> <font size="1">Dan Dickau, JR Smith, Bostjan Nachbar, David West, Jamaal Magloire</font></div> Injured List <font color="Navy">Jazz:</font> Carlos Boozer, Andrei Kirilenko, Raul Lopez <font color="Teal">Hornets:</font> Maciej Lampe Prediction Hornets by 5
The Hornets are playing a lot better with Magloire back. His presence is really helping out Chris Andersen on the block. The last two games Andersen had 7 blocks, and 6 blocks. The Hornets are not winning much, but they have been competitive in their games. The Jazz have looked terrible 4 out of their last 5 games. I'd like to see how they respond after Sloan got ejected from the Minnesota game. He must have given them a good verbal lashing and had to put a challenge out for them to finish strong the rest of the year. I predict the Jazz winning this game by 4 points 86-82.
Jazz win, 98 - 87. Matt Harpring played well and scored 28. At the very end of the game he and Lee Nailon got ejected. Randy Livingston started, and got 7 assists in 20 minutes. Keith McLeod was fit to play in this game, and he played 28 minutes.
