Jazz playoff tickets go on sale 9 a.m. Saturday.
Tickets will be sold at the Delta Center box office and at all TicketMaster outlets, Gray Whale CD Exchange and Fred Meyer locations throughout the Salt Lake City area. Tickets can also be ordered on-line at www.TICKETMASTER.com.
Tickets will be available in all price ranges, including lower-bowl seats at the Delta Center.
For more information, call 801-325-SEAT.
STILL GOING: The Final Four is finished, but work for NBA scouts is not.
Kevin O'Connor, the Jazz's vice president for basketball operations, missed Thursday night's game against Phoenix to be at the 48th annual Portsmouth Invitational Tournament in Portsmouth, Va., where seniors who have completed their collegiate athletic eligibility gather in hopes of catching the eyes of NBA execs and scouts who are preparing for the 2000 NBA Draft.
Many smaller-school products have made names for themselves at Portsmouth, including Los Angeles Lakers rookie Devean George from NCAA Division III Augsburg College in Minnesota and Indiana Pacers rookie Jeff Foster of Southwest Texas State.
Past participants in the tourney-format combine include Jazz guard John Stockton and former Jazz swingman Shandon Anderson, now with the Houston Rockets, whom the Jazz play on Sunday. Portsmouth participants this year include Purdue's Brian Cardinal and Connecticut's Jake Voskuhl, plus countless names you've never heard.
MISCELLANEOUS: Jazz forward Karl Malone pulled down six rebounds, giving him 12,548 in his career and pushing him past Charles Barkley (12,545) for 14th place all-time . . . Everyone scored for the Jazz on Thursday, including rookie Scott Padgett, who has scored in three straight games after either not playing or not scoring in the previous 25 straight. Everyone has scored for the Jazz on four other occasions this season, once in each of the last five months: Dec. 3 vs. Indiana (a loss); Jan. 5 vs. Charlotte (a win); Feb. 4 vs. the Los Angeles Lakers (a loss); and March 31 vs. Golden State (a win) . . . Suns guard Kevin Johnson, playing his first game against the Jazz since recently coming out of retirement, finished with 12 points and five assists in 19 minutes off the bench.