Jazz camp roster posted

The Utah Jazz have gone to the Mailman for the past 18 seasons.

Now, they will go Postell. At least for training camp.

Swingman Lavor Postell, who played 61 games over the past couple of seasons for the New York Knicks, is the most NBA-experienced of the six free agents newly invited to the Jazz's training camp, which begins Tuesday afternoon with media day.

Utah has 19 players on its training-camp roster — 11 under guaranteed contract, with second-round draftee Mo Williams of Alabama expected to be signed soon — and could add Dallas shooting guard Raja Bell, an unrestricted free agent, in the next few days.

Bell has said he will sign with Utah, but the Jazz waited on the decision of the Atlanta Hawks as to whether Atlanta would match Utah's Sept. 11 offer sheet to restricted-free-agent guard Jason Terry.

The Hawks finally announced late Thursday afternoon that they had matched the three-year, $22.5 million offer to Terry, leaving Utah to negotiate now with the 6-foot-5 Bell, more a defender than a scorer in his three NBA seasons with Dallas and Philadelphia.

Most members of Jazz management is in Hawaii participating in mandatory Larry H. Miller Group seminars, and they won't return to Utah until Saturday. That means the Bell deal might not get done for a couple of days yet, a Jazz source said.

Bell spoke to the Fort Worth Star Telegram on Thursday evening and said it would likely be Monday or Tuesday before any deal with the Jazz might be done. He said he is also considering San Antonio, which already has a large number of players under contract, and Atlanta, which has only about 10.

Probably the best locally known person invited to camp is Weber State and Salt Lake Community College product Jermaine Boyette, a 6-foot-2 guard who played for Utah's Rocky Mountain Revue team this summer and was an honorable mention Associated Press All-American averaging 20.5 points a game as a Wildcat senior.

Jazz player personnel director Walt Perrin says Boyette is "a hard worker and strong player with a strong desire to better himself and make an NBA team."

Because the Jazz are such a changed team from last season with the defection of the Mailman, Karl Malone, to Los Angeles Lakers; the retirement of John Stockton; and the departures of Tony Massenburg to Sacramento, Calbert Cheaney to Golden State and Mark Jackson (as yet unsigned), Perrin said it was both harder and easier to find fill-ins for the training-camp roster.