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Trevor Booker was tired and sick, he'd been throwing up and was told to stay at home and miss the team's shootaround Saturday morning. But when it came down to game time, the Utah Jazz power forward said his status against the Indiana Pacers was really never in question.

"There was no way I was missing this game, especially with Rudy [Gobert] out," he said as he sat at his locker, his foot in a bucket of ice after the game. "We were already down a man and I was going to play regardless."

The Jazz will be thankful for that.

In Saturday night's 122-119 overtime win over the Indiana Pacers, Booker battled through illness to play 24 minutes off the bench — including all of overtime — and finish with 10 points and 14 rebounds.

Booker's contributions were perhaps not as large as forwards Derrick Favors' and Gordon Hayward's, but they came at key times.

With the game on the line in the fourth quarter, Booker stepped to the charity stripe and knocked down his first free throw to make it a 108-105 game.

Booker's second attempt bounced off the iron, but the forward threw himself into the fray, knocking the ball back to Hayward to give Utah another possession. Hayward rewarded Booker with a quick pass back into the post, where Booker was fouled again.

This time, he made them both to bring the Jazz within one.

In overtime, Booker collected two more rebounds and soared through the air to block a C.J. Miles 3-point attempt that might have tied the game.

Jazz coach Quin Snyder said he wasn't sure of Booker's status until just before game time.

"Once he started feeling less nauseous and things like that, where he could play, it was really a question of whether or not he had enough energy to play and play effectively," the coach said.

Snyder said Booker first came down with a flu bug earlier in the week and the coach noticed something was off with his spark plug off the bench during Utah's loss on Thursday to Orlando.

"I called him after last game and said, 'What's up?'" Snyder said. "He said he was drained. … Tonight he found energy somewhere. His effort was fantastic."

After the win had moved the Jazz to 9-9 on the year, Booker smiled in the locker room. It seemed winning might be the remedy.

"I feel a lot better now," he said.

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