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Utah Jazz healthy, ready for physical nature of playoffs

Banged up and bruised, the Utah Jazz had almost full participation in Friday's practice before the team was scheduled to head to Los Angeles in advance of Saturday's playoff series-opening game against the Clippers in the Staples Center.

Reserve guard Raul Neto was the only player who did not participate in practice despite Gordon Hayward, George Hill, Derrick Favors and Rodney Hood all having limped to the regular-season finish line in recent weeks.

The Jazz sat Hayward, who'd been dealing with a recent quadriceps contusion, out of Monday's game, while Hood and Favors have been playing through knee soreness.