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Favors, Hayward get USA invites

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:35:58 MDT

Favors, Hayward get USA invites

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 23, 2013 09:35PM MDT

Derrick Favors and Gordon Hayward will both participate in a Team USA minicamp this summer in Las Vegas, according to their agents. Both third-year players were members of the USA Men’s Basketball Select Team, which practiced against the Team USA before the London Olympics. Among other players known to be attending the camp, July 22-25, are Wizards guard Bradley Beal, Rockets forward Chandler Parsons, Bulls forward Taj Gibson and Bucks center Larry Sanders. The roster has not been announced by...

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Monson: Kevin O’Connor says good player will be available for Jazz to draft

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:52:09 MDT

Monson: Kevin O’Connor says good player will be available for Jazz to draft

By Gordon Monson Tribune Columnist

Updated May 16, 2013 11:52PM MDT

With the NBA combine underway this week in Chicago, the Utah Jazz are busy studying their options, working through every possibility, tossing them in the air like a dough slapper at Pizano’s. They have two picks in the coming draft, one in the lottery, a likely No. 14 selection, and another at No. 21. There is both skepticism and sunshine as to whether the Jazz can add to their half-vacant roster a player or two who will actually help them improve what is already a young core. There’s been talk...

Favors for favor

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:01:04 MDT

Favors for favor

Updated May 14, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Re “Shurtleff, Swallow lived it up on my dime, says convicted fraudster” (Tribune, May ): Regardless of the outcome of investigations into whether Utah Attorney General John Swallow and his predecessor, Mark Shurtleff, did anything “illegal,” the associations, facilities and favors given to them directly or indirectly by Jeremy Johnson and Marc Jenson should give everyone concern about the current state of our elected officials and the process of choosing those who look after our rights. Norman...