Answer: The injured list no longer exists.

When the NBA and the Players' Association agreed to expand each team's roster to 15 as part of the new collective bargaining agreement in 2005, it made the old injured list obsolete.

Now, injured players are simply designated as "inactive" from game-to-game. They are not put on the injured list, where they previously had to remain for at least five games before being reactivated.

As far as the Jazz sending a player to the D-League, I'm guessing Flash coach Brad Jones can hardly wait. But it won't happen until the Jazz get completely healthy and, starting with Deron Williams' ankle injury in the preseason, that hasn't come closing to happening yet.

If all 15 players on the Jazz roster ever get healthy at the same time -- and if they stay healthy for a reasonably extended period of time -- that's when second-year center Kyrylo Fesenko will probably be sent to the Flash.

He's the only obvious possibility for the D-League at this point, given Morris Almond's hard work and determined play after being informed the Jazz were not going to pick up his option for next season.

Almond could have pouted. He could have stopped trying, since his future probably isn't in Utah. But that didn't happen. In fact, coach Jerry Sloan has praised his play, saying at one point Almond was making it "hard to keep him off the floor."

If such talk came from some other coaches, I would suspect the team was simply trying to boost Almond's trade value. But I don't think Sloan would play those kind of games with the young player.

At some point, I suppose it's possible Almond could be sent back to the D-League, where he played so well last season. But I don't think that's going to happen. I think Almond has done his time with the Flash and he'll be with the Jazz the rest of the season.

The only other player the Jazz might consider sending to the D-League is rookie Kosta Koufos.

In fact, I saw Jones shortly after last summer's NBA draft and joked that Koufos looked like a perfect candidate for a long run with the Flash this season. Jones smiled and I could tell he was probably thinking the same thing.

One problem.

When Carlos Boozer, Jarron Collins and Andrei Kirilenko were all battling injuries -- and with Memo Okur tending to his critically-ill father in Turkey -- Sloan had no choice but to put Koufos on the floor.

When he did, the big rookie from Ohio State played well enough that he might have scuttled any ideas the Jazz had of sending him to the Flash.

Koufos is certainly more NBA-ready than Fesenko at this point in their careers. If the Jazz's injury situation ever gets to the point where they can afford to send a big man to the D-League, it will almost have to be Fesenko. The way the Jazz are presently constructed, they are too small to think sending Koufos to the D-League is a viable option.