Utah Jazz: Maggette drawing lots of attention

But the capped-out Jazz are armed with nothing more than a midlevel-exception deal, and if Maggette were to spurn Golden State's and Philadelphia's overtures and sign instead with an over-the-cap team, it seems he may be more inclined to take San Antonio's or Boston's money than Utah's.

Free agents cannot actually sign contracts until Wednesday at the earliest.

JAZZ LIKE JOHNSON? The Rocky Mountain News on Friday listed the Jazz among several teams "said to be interested" in 33-year-old unrestricted free agent Anthony Johnson, along with the likes of Denver, Cleveland, Miami, Orlando and Phoenix.

Johnson completed last season with Sacramento, following a February trade from Atlanta. The Jazz are known to previously have had interest in him.

Utah's two current reserve point guards, Ronnie Price and Jason Hart, both have played previously for the Kings.

To make room for Johnson or any other free agent, the Jazz would have to either opt against bringing back restricted free-agent swingman C.J. Miles or clear a roster spot some other way.

SNYDER WORKING OUT: After the Minnesota Timberwolves declined to tender a qualifying offer to Kirk Snyder, the ex-Jazz guard — one of Utah's two first-round draft choices in 2004 — has been reduced to working out for the Boston Celtics this week, along with the likes of David Harrison, Darius Miles and Patrick O'Bryant.

"A lot of these guys we have just liked, and they're trying to continue their careers," Celtics basketball boss and former BYU star Danny Ainge told the Boston Globe. "But there's a lot of guys in the basketball world and a lot more we're going to look at.

"There's no difference than if these guys were playing in a summer league. That's basically the situation we have right now."

MISC.: Orlando free agent Carlos Arroyo has drawn some degree of interest from the Nuggets, and the ex-Jazz point guard was listed Friday by the New York Post as being among several point guards — along with Tyronn Lue, Roger Mason, Eddie House, Sebastian Telfair and Jannero Pargo — in whom the New York Knicks have "expressed interest." But that was before the Knicks on Friday agreed to terms on a two-year deal with Chicago Bulls guard Chris Duhon and reportedly promised to make Duhon their starting point guard. ... Ex-Jazz forward Louis Amundson is on the roster of Golden State's summer team, which plans to play this month at both the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas and the Jazz-hosted Rocky Mountain Revue. Shooting coach Sidney Moncrief will coach the Warriors' Revue entry. ... The Detroit Pistons' "official" blog spot reported that ex-Jazz point guard Dee Brown would be on Detroit's summer-team roster, but Brown is not listed among those actually playing for the Pistons in the Vegas league.

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