--G Randy Foye and F Craig Smith missed their second consecutive games.
Foye has been bothered by a sore hip since he fell on rookie Kevin Love in a practice more than a month ago and even though Foye has recovered from a sprained ankle suffered more than two weeks ago, the pain in his hip has never subsided. Asked if he might just shut Foye down for the season because of that hip, coach Kevin McHale said, "I think he'll come back and play some. It was feeling better, then he got hit right on there. If he gets hit there anymore, he probably won't be able to play much."
McHale was uncertain when Smith will return from a strained calf.
--F Rodney Carney will find out this summer when he becomes an unrestricted free agent, but he got an early lesson Tuesday in the business of sports.
That's when he learned that John Calipari, his college coach who brought him to Memphis, had left his alma mater and took the Kentucky job for only 35 million reasons.
"I thought Cal was going to stay, but I guess money talks," Carney said. "I was hoping he wouldn't leave Memphis. He's been successful there and at UMass. But Kentucky, that's a different setting."
QUOTE TO NOTE: "Feeling a lot better, but I've got a long, long way to go." -- Wolves forward Al Jefferson, said as he walked quietly down a Target Center corridor, without the metal crutches on which he has walked since surgery Feb. 18 to repair a torn anterior cruciate knee ligament.
