Jazz, Miles still negotiating

The Jazz seem confident they can soon come to terms with Dallas Skyline High School shooting guard C.J. Miles, one of their second-round draft choices in last week's NBA Draft.

Because Miles is just out of high school and still has not signed with an agent, he can either sign with the Jazz or opt to honor his oral commitment to the University of Texas.

It's thought that Miles, though, continues to lean heavily toward turning pro.

"I think in the next couple of days we'll get something done," Kevin O'Connor, the Jazz's senior vice president of basketball operations, said Tuesday.

Miles must sign a contract by Sunday if he plans to play for the Jazz in the Rocky Mountain Revue summer league, which is scheduled July 15-22 at Salt Lake Community College.

NELSON IN, PRICE NOT: Utah State University product Spencer Nelson still plans to play for the Jazz's Revue team, but Utah Valley State College's Ronnie Price will not.

Price worked out twice for the Jazz before last week's draft, and Jazz brass tried to lure him to Utah's Revue team after he was not drafted. Instead, he is playing for Sacramento in the Vegas Summer League that gets under way today in Las Vegas.

Also in Vegas: former Jazz assistant Kenny Natt is coaching Cleveland's entry; BYU product and ex-Atlanta Hawks guard Travis Hansen, back from a stint with Tau Ceramica of the Spanish League, is playing for Denver; former University of Utah guard Nick Jacobson is on Phoenix's roster; ex-Weber State center Lance Allred, who also worked out for the Jazz before the draft, is playing with the Los Angeles Clippers; and former Viewmont High, Snow College and Iowa State big man Jackson Vroman, a regular on New Orleans' roster, is with the Hornets.

Vroman is the son of former Jazz center Brett Vroman.

FREE-AGENT FRONT: O'Connor suggested little progress was made Tuesday on the free-agent front.

"We're talking, but nothing's going on," he said. "We'll wait and see what happens to (Milwaukee free agent) Michael Redd and the other big guys, and go from there."

The Jazz will be over the salary cap in 2005-06, so they can offers deals to free agents from other teams starting at no more than midlevel exception money of about $5.1 million for next season.