Jazz still awaiting word

While the Jazz spent Monday night waiting for word from free agent Brad Miller and official news on Corey Maggette's status, Karl Malone stopped by Salt Lake Community College to take in a Rocky Mountain Revue game.

Inside SLCC's Lifetime Activities Center, where the former Jazz star and new Los Angeles Lakers power forward Malone paid his $5 just like everyone else for the right to sit in the stands, the core of the Jazz's future rolled to a 77-65 victory over the Dallas Mavericks' summer-league team.

Outside the gym, Jazz basketball operations senior vice president Kevin O'Connor worked his cell phone, hoping to hear more about Miller and Maggette.

Miller, the Indiana Pacers All-Star center, has been weighing a six-year, $52 million offer from the Jazz against a lesser offer from Denver and interest from both Indiana, which spent part of Monday mulling the Miller matter, and Miami.

Miller is expected to make his decision some time today, but O'Connor did not seem to be counting on that Monday.

Said O'Connor: "It could be a week, it could be three days, it could be whatever."

Or it could have already happened by the time you are reading this.

The Los Angeles Clippers, meanwhile, apparently still have not formally matched Utah's six-year, $42 million offer to Maggette, and instead have been focusing on trying to win a bidding war with Washington for Golden State guard Gilbert Arenas.

Arenas, however, reportedly was headed to Washington as of late Monday night — a development that could doom Utah's chances for Maggette.

Whomever the Jazz are able to sign out of this summer's NBA free-agency market will join a young team likely to feature at least four of Utah's Revue players, all of whom are former first-round picks: DeShawn Stevenson (2000), Raul Lopez (2001), Curtis Borchardt (2002) and Sasha Pavlovic (2003).

That's a foursome that could soon see considerable playing time in light of John Stockton's recent retirement and Malone's departure via free agency, a notion not lost on Jazz assistant coach Gordie Chiesa.

"It's so easy to say that 'they're young players, so let their mistakes slide,' " Chiesa said. "What we've chosen to do is to correct their mistakes, because ... they might play next year, at minimum ... as bench players.