Everyone is healthy and ready to go for Seattle. Sonics coach P.J. Carlesimo said he'll go with the same starters with Earl Watson, Kevin Durant, Jeff Green, Chris Wilcox and Kurt Thomas starting for Seattle.

Probable starters for Utah are Deron Williams, Ronnie Brewer, Andrei Kirilenko, Carlos Boozer and Mehmet Okur.

Utah is 17-3 with Kyle Korver, a 6-7 shooter it acquired from Philadelphia, in the lineup.

“They’ve been playing great since the new year," Seattle's Kurt Thomas said about Utah. "(Deron) Williams, (Carlos) Boozer, (Andrei) Kirilenko, (Kyle) Korver and you can’t forget about (Mehmet) Okur. They’re a talented team. They have a great coach, so we’re going to have our hands full.”

Mickael Gelabale was recalled from his stint playing for the D-League Idaho Stampede and will be in uniform tonight.

Gelabale averaged 17.8 points and 4.3 rebounds a contest in six games for the Stampede.

"He’s still young, and he needs to be more aggressive," Carlesimo said about Gelabale's play for the Stampede. "He took over some games in the second half, or like for a quarter or something like that. But he’s good enough to dominate the game right from the beginning to the end, and that’s not an easy thing to do.
"But he showed for quarters or for halves just how much better he was.”

Gelabale said he was happy to get the playing time for Idaho, but wants the opportunity to do the same thing for Seattle.

"I feel good (about my performance)," Gelabale said. "I want to come here and try to make the same plays that I did down there. So we’ll see."

In other NBA news, Dallas swingman Devean George is blocking the team’s effort to secure New Jersey's Jason Kidd in a trade with the Nets that was already agreed on in principle. George apparently told the Mavericks he wouldn't consent to being included in the deal, which is his right based on a rare provision in his one-year contract. Read about it here.

Ex-Sonic Ray Allen was added to the Eastern Conference All-Star team, and will replace Washington’s Caron Butler, who will miss the game with a left hip flexor. It’s Allen’s eighth All-Star appearance.