Ejected within six minutes of each other in the first quarter, Greg Ostertag and Jerry Sloan had time to kill Sunday night.

Elk season is closed in the Los Angeles city limits this time of year, and the nearest tractor was somewhere in Sacramento, so they spent it watching TV.
     
Not the Packers-Vikings NFL thriller, or Trading Spaces or even The Sopranos, the HBO show on which so many guys get whacked even Shaquille O'Neal might raise an eyebrow.
     
Instead, they saw the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Jazz 110-101 behind 11 rebounds and 32 points on 13-of-19 shooting from Shaq, the Teflon don of Hollywood hoops.