The NBA's trading deadline is at 1 p.m. MST today.
Most swap ideas heat up as the deadline approaches, but as of Wednesday, some Utah Jazz players and coach Jerry Sloan didn't seem to have any inkling of anything going on.
Of course, that's when something usually does happen.
General manager Kevin O'Connor gave his normal "no comment" about whether anything was in the works.
"That's who we are," Sloan said of his young team before Wednesday's practice that followed Utah's 119-109 Tuesday night win over Golden State, giving Utah a sweep of the season series against the team the Jazz eliminated in the second round of the playoffs last season.
"We made one change during the year (a trade for Kyle Korver on Dec. 29), and that's it. I don't know of anything that's going on in that department right now, so we just have to play as well as we can with who we are," Sloan said.
Point guard Deron Williams wasn't expecting anything, either.
"I didn't see us making a move anyway," he said. "We already made our move (Korver). We're like 21-3 (actually 19-3) since. Pretty good move."
"I guess we did our Shaq trade. We did our Jason Kidd/Shaq trade," said forward Matt Harpring, referencing recent deals that brought Shaquille O'Neal to Phoenix and Kidd to Dallas.
"I don't know. I haven't really heard anything," he said about any possible late Jazz activity. "All quiet on the Western Front?
"I guess if you're in the playoff hunt, you're always looking to improve your team if you can. I'm sure there's feelers out there. I have no idea."
OLD AGE: Harpring, who is Utah's only player as old as 30, took some ribbing from Williams about it. Neither had realized he was the only one until a reporter mentioned it.
"Elder statesman. That's what I like to be referred as," Harpring said.
"It's fine. I was just telling them yesterday I was remembering when I was a rookie. It just goes so fast that it's amazing it's my 10th year."
BOOZER SITS OUT: Power forward Carlos Boozer, who had 16 points and a dozen rebounds Tuesday night but put a hot pack on his lower back when he wasn't playing, sat out Wednesday's practice with a sore low back.
A Jazz spokesman said he was told the back problems have "built up," and that Boozer is considered day-to-day. He underwent treatment in lieu of practicing.
LOOK OUT BELOW: When Harpring crashed to the floor with 4:33 left in the second quarter of Tuesday's game after making a steal and trying to take it in for a sky-high layup, on which he was called for an offensive foul, he reinjured his left wrist.
"Just sprained again," he said Wednesday. He returned to play again in Tuesday's game and practiced Wednesday. "It was getting better, and all of a sudden, it's back to where it was," he said.
Harpring got so high as he went for the shot, "It crossed my mind to dunk the ball. I was feeling good out there, and then once the body (Golden State player) came under me, I was like, 'Uh-uh, I've got to protect myself and not get hurt now."
Harpring felt he was undercut and said the official later apologized. "The ref came up to me at halftime and said. 'My fault, I'm sorry, that was a bad call."'
But Harpring was still unhappy. "I was because that's how you do get hurt when someone does something like that — you're up in the air, and they slide under you. That's never good.
"If I was a high-flier like Kyle Korver," he said, chuckling with Korver sitting on the exercise bicycle next to him, "I might have landed on my head."
There seemed to be a couple of makeup calls for the Jazz later.
"Yeah, but the makeup calls weren't for my benefit," Harpring said. "They didn't help me. My wrist still hurts."
NO GO: The trophy he earned at All-Star weekend in New Orleans for winning the skills challenge contest in record time was supposed to have been presented to Williams at Tuesday's game, but there was no ceremony.
"It's so whack," Williams said. "They forgot to send it the next day. They sent it like two days (later), something like that."
Asked if the ceremony would take place at Saturday's game against Atlanta in EnergySolutions Arena, Williams said, "No, I think that's all. That's it. I didn't want to do it anyway."
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