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SALT LAKE CITY – Aaron Afflalo shook off a sore ankle to score 19 points, including a 3-pointer with 11.4 seconds to play, and the Denver Nuggets held off the Utah Jazz 103-101 Thursday night. Ty Lawson scored 22 points, and Nene and Chris Andersen each added 13 to give the Nuggets their fifth...

Martin's 22 lift Rockets past short-handed Jazz AP – Wed Feb 2, 11:53 pm ET AP SALT LAKE CITY - Kevin Martin scored on a three-point play with 6.9 seconds left and finished with 22 points to lead the Houston Rockets to a come-from-behind 97-96 victory over the short-handed Utah Jazz on...

SALT LAKE CITY – Paul Millsap scored 30 points, Earl Watson had a season-high 13 assists in place of injured Deron Williams, and the Utah Jazz beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 108-100 on Friday night to halt a six-game losing streak. Andrei Kirilenko added a season-high 27 points and had a key...

SALT LAKE CITY – Manu Ginobili scored 26 points, Tony Parker had 23, and the San Antonio Spurs withstood a late rally to beat the Utah Jazz 112-105 on Wednesday night for their 10th win in 11 games. Richard Jefferson scored 14 points, while Tim Duncan and Gary Neal each had 13 as the Spurs...

WASHINGTON – It'll be jazz on the stage and prominent Chinese-Americans in the audience Wednesday as Michelle and Barack Obama pump out some high-octane pomp at a state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao. Action film star Jackie Chan is part of the celebrity quotient for the big party. Mrs...

SALT LAKE CITY – Oklahoma City Thunder coach Scott Brooks knew he was facing one of the hottest teams in the league. The answer was to give the Utah Jazz a bit of their own medicine. After falling behind by double digits early, Oklahoma City got rolling, then held off a late Jazz comeback for...

NBA: Utah 125, Toronto 108 SALT LAKE CITY, -- Al Jefferson scored 27 points Wednesday and the Utah Jazz fought off a big Toronto comeback to defeat the Raptors 125-108. The Jazz had a 19-point lead at halftime and lost it all by late in the third period. Utah, however, scored the final...

SALT LAKE CITY – Hakim Warrick and Steve Nash scored 18 points apiece to help the Phoenix Suns beat the Utah Jazz 110-94 on Thursday night. The Suns (1-1) led by as many as 18 points against a Jazz team that played with more intensity than during their 22-point season-opening loss at Denver on...

Trombonist Benny Powell dead at 80 NEW YORK, (UPI) -- Trombonist and jazz educator Benny Powell, best known for his work with Count Basie's big band, died in New York at age 80. Powell brought his "innate elegance" and "mellow, full-bodied sound" to the recording studio, enhancing the works of...

Jazz great Fred Anderson dead at 81 CHICAGO, (UPI) -- Chicago jazz legend and tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, who had a heart attack June 14, died Thursday at the age of 81. Anderson, the owner of the famed Velvet Lounge on Chicago's South Side, created a "rugged, craggy musical language...

Jazz maverick Bill Dixon dead at 87 BENNINGTON, Vt., (UPI) -- Bill Dixon, a leader of the avant-garde jazz scene in the 1960s, died at his home in Vermont at the age of 87, a spokesman said. Dixon, a trumpeter who founded the short-lived Jazz Composers Guild, died Wednesday in North...