31.   General manager Mitch Kupchak said the team still hopes to sign former Bulls guard Ron Harper....

32.   He wants to play again this season and the team still hopes that he will.

33.   In any event, he said, the team hopes to start attacking the invasion within the next two weeks.

34.   Initially, the team hoped Salmon would be out only a few days.

35.   Injuries could change that, but the team hopes the improvement continues into the regular season.

36.   In virtually every Western Conference city except Salt Lake City, teams are hoping to position themselves away from the team known as Jail Blazers.

37.   Isner said his team hoped to gain approval next year to inject naked DNA vegF in cardiac catheterizations.

38.   It is almost as if each team is hoping to just back in.

39.   It seems as though the whole team is hoping GM John Hart makes a Chuck Finley-like trade to re-energize them.

40.   Long into training camp whispers kept coming from inside the organization that Glenn had not participated as the team had hoped in its conditioning work.