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Jazz notes: Giricek, Sloan clash on bench
"I didn't do anything wrong," Giricek said three different times after leaving the locker room, "and I don't have no comment for anything."
Whether or not the veteran from Croatia has played his last game for the Jazz remains to be seen.
"No. I don't know," Giricek said after being asked if he wants out of Utah and before he was informed he would not be permitted to travel with the team to Orlando, where the Jazz visit the Magic on Friday.
"My agent (Marc Fleisher)," Giricek added, "is going to talk to Kevin (O'Connor, the Jazz's general manager). ... It's actually gonna be taken care of, right? Everything can be fixed, right? So, we'll see."
O'Connor said by telephone late Wednesday that he had no comment on the matter, and Sloan suggested the same, saying "I don't have any comments on that right now."
Giricek, a frequent visitor to Sloan's doghouse, exchanged words with the longtime Jazz coach during a heated timeout with seven minutes and 50 seconds remaining in Wednesday's second quarter.
Giricek had knocked down a jumper a couple of Jazz possessions prior to the timeout but got beat by Charlotte's Jason Richardson on the Bobcats' ensuing trip down the court.
Giricek denied that was what had Sloan so mad and suggested he didn't know what he did.
"I have no idea," he said.
If other Jazz players did, they weren't saying.
"We'll talk about that in-house," Carlos Boozer said.
"That's between Coach and Giri," fellow co-captain Deron Williams added.
SLOAN ON JORDAN: After speaking to and working out personally with the team on Tuesday, NBA legend and current front-office member Michael Jordan was given a nod of credit for Charlotte's win Wednesday.
"The 'School of Jordan' was good to us," Bobcats coach Sam Mitchell said.
It's an academy worth attending, suggested Sloan, whose Jazz twice lost to Jordan's Chicago Bulls in the NBA Finals.
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