Utah Jazz: 5 burning questions as the Jazz open camp

After one Rocky Mountain Revue, two Olympic gold medals and three long months since the Boston Celtics finally won another championship, the Jazz are ready to embark on yet another quest to win what the franchise never has.

Media Day is Monday. Training camp opens Tuesday in Boise.

Preseason play awaits later in October.

Then the quest is on in earnest for what would be the Jazz's first NBA title, and it's one wrought with one question after another for coach Jerry Sloan and his playoff-quality club.

Here are five to ponder as bags for camp are being packed, some of which will be answered by this time next month — and one of which may not be known until next offseason unwinds:

Question No. 1: Is this is a one-year window for the Jazz, as presently constituted, to go all the way?

Answer: As long as point guard Deron Williams is running the Jazz, they should have a shot at making a run.

But reality is this: Starting power forward Carlos Boozer and starting center Mehmet Okur both can get out of their current contracts after the coming season because of player options they control, and backup shooting guard Kyle Korver essentially can do the same by exercising an early termination option.

So it indeed could be the Jazz's last chance to go for it — at least as we know them now.

Much or all of that, granted, won't be known until after the season.

But what some say and do in

training camp and early in the season — especially Boozer, the Jazz's only All-Star last season and an Olympic-gold winner in China along with Williams just last month — may speak volumes about what's to come.

Question No. 2: What will be the biggest battle of training camp?

Answer: Curiously enough, it could be the one for minutes at backup point guard.

All five starters from last season — Williams, shooting guard Ronnie Brewer, small forward Andrei Kirilenko, Boozer and Okur — return from last season.

But veteran journeyman Jason Hart, who started last season as the backup behind Williams, is gone.

Hart was unseated last season by Ronnie Price, the Utah Valley State product who is a Sloan favorite. Yet Price, who finished the season as Williams' backup, again will have to fight in camp for minutes.