I hear NBA vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson, who doubles as head of USA Basketball's Senior Men's Team committee, is looking for a couple of veteran leader types to add to his core of eight or nine players he wants to put together to keep the United States atop the victory stand at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
I'm here to help.

Veteran leader types don't come any better than John Stockton and Karl Malone.

Jackson and USA Basketball executive director Jim Tooley both attended Wednesday night's Jazz-Nuggets game at Pepsi Center.

This may or may not have been a coincidence.