With the Celtics not in the playoffs you usually try to find a team to pull for. Phoenix?-maybe, Detroit?-No way! Utah?- YES.

Old school coach Jerry Sloan has his Utah Jazz playing basketball the way it's supposed to be-unselfishly, hard and usually without the whining that is so prevalent in today’s game.

It is not a team of all-stars, -officially only Carlos Boozer has been named (once), but he may now be the most valuable/outstanding player in the entire playoffs. (How good would he look in Celtics Green, something Danny Ainge tried very hard to do last off-season)?

Andrei Kirilenko is their thin 6-9 forward whose scoring average has gone from 16 to 8 to allow Boozer and rookie point guard Deron Williams to get more shots- Kirilenko doesn't care- he just goes out and blocks more shots. An attitude, a team attitude that is worth cheering for.