Jazz not so smooth, but stunningly successful

Published Nov. 24, 2010 11:01 p.m. ET

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By Billy Witz
FOXSports.com
WITZ ARCHIVE

November 25, 2010

These are strange days indeed in the NBA.

The owners are making money, yet David Stern talks of contraction and Billy Hunter is 99 percent certain there will be a work stoppage this summer. The always-deliberate Spurs are second in the league in scoring. And one month into the season, the Heat are a half-game better than the Knicks.

But nothing in this who