Several NBA players have developed with the Jazz in recent years, thriving in coach Jerry Sloan's structured system and benefiting from playing alongside Karl Malone and John Stockton.

Players haven't always recognized this, though, but former backup Greg Foster is one who gets it.

"They make the game so much easier," said Foster, who signed with the Toronto Raptors earlier this month. "It sounds so cliche that great players make those around them better, but it's true. It's exactly what they do with their teammates.

"I don't know if you lift your game to a different level, I think they lift you." Donyell Marshall, who returns to the Delta Center tonight with the Chicago Bulls, is another who revived his career in Utah.