Utah Jazz offseason has been soap opera

A prospective backup point guard, Eric Maynor, gets drafted.

Starting power forward Carlos Boozer opts in for the final season of his current contract, then immediately heads to the trade block.

Starting center Mehmet Okur and backup shooting guard Kyle Korver opt against exercising their early termination option on their contracts, then Okur extends and Korver expresses desire to do the same.

Backup power forward Paul Millsap signs an offer sheet with Portland, leaving the Jazz to spend the week deciding whether to match.

If this offseason seems like the soap opera that won't end — and, really, it has been — then the summer of 2012 should be quite a sequel.

That, after all, is when Okur's contract now will expire — and when starting point guard Deron Williams, who has watched things unfold the past several weeks with keen interest, must decide if he'll exercise his fourth-season option on the contract he extended last offseason.

It's by design, Williams suggested while offering his take on the state of the Jazz over the weekend, that after three more seasons in Utah he'll have a chance to assess his own future with the franchise.

"That's why I took the shorter deal — just to see where we're at as a team, just to see where we're going," said Williams, who could have extended for as many as five years.

"I hope we're going the right direction. You know, the organization always has done the right thing, has always wanted to be a contender, always wanted to compete.

"Memo's deal is up the same time as mine," he added. "That definitely will have a little weight on what I do at that time. But that's so far from now."

The Jazz's immediate future, he suggests, offers more than enough intrigue for the time being.

Will they deal Boozer?

Indications Monday were that they haven't ruled it out, but — unhappy with the quality of trade offers they're currently receiving — the possibility remains that the Jazz would start the season with the two-time NBA All-Star on their roster.

Will they match Portland's four-year, $32 million offer to Millsap?

It seemed likelier than not Monday, even if they don't trade Boozer this week, but nothing on that front is guaranteed.