The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has exercised its option on guard Keith McLeod?s contract for the 2006-07 season. Per club policy, terms of the contract are not disclosed.

In two seasons with the Jazz, the 6-2 guard out of Bowling Green has seen action in 119 games averaging 6.6 points and 3.3 assists in 22 minutes per game. He tallied a career high 22 points on December 26, 2005 against the Memphis Grizzlies and has dished out a career high 11 assists twice (December 31, 2004 vs.Sacramento and January 11, 2005 vs. Phoenix).

Phil Miller of the Salt Lake Tribune was a guest on RealGM Radio's Draft Night Webcast this afternoon and said that he expects the Jazz to select J.J. Redick with the 14th pick in Wednesday night's draft.

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According to The Chicago Tribune, the Jazz have been involved in talks with Philadelphia and Boston about a three-way trade that would primarily involve All-Star Allen Iverson, Wally Szczerbiak and Carlos Boozer.

Reportedly, Utah would send Boozer to the 76ers, who would send Iverson to the Celtics, who would send Szczerbiak to the Jazz.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah would almost certainly have to get another player in such a considering Szczerbiak will be playing on a surgically-repaired knee and will be 30 in March.  Tribune writer Steve Luhm mentions Al Jefferson as a potential possibility.

Asked about the rumored three-team trade, however, O'Connor said, "It doesn't have as much life as everybody seems to think it does."

The Utah Jazz have brought back 7-foot Senegalese Mouhamed Saer Sene and Bradley center Patrick O'Bryant for a second look ahead of next weeks's NBA draft, according to the Deseret News.

The Jazz are seriously considering Sene and O'Bryant as possible first-round selections in Wednesday's NBA Draft, though it's possible O'Bryant will be gone when it's Utah's turn to pick at No. 14 overall.

Jazz basketball boss Kevin O'Connor shed no light Monday on a weekend newspaper report that power forward Carlos Boozer is the subject of trade talks between Utah and the Memphis Grizzlies, the Deseret News is reporting.

"I've got no comment," said O'Connor.

Citing unidentified "plugged-in league executives" as its sources, the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal revealed Sunday that the Jazz and Grizzlies are talking about Boozer.

Talks between the Jazz and other teams evidently heated up earlier this month during the NBA pre-draft camp in Orlando ? with several players, not just Boozer, among the topics of discussion.

League executives report to the Akron Beacon Journal that the Memphis Grizzlies are in trade talks with the Utah Jazz about ex-Cavalier Carlos Boozer.

Michael Naiditch, the agent for new Raptors center Robert Whaley, is worried that the Raptors haven't even asked the second-year NBAer to come to Toronto and take a physical following last week's trade which sent Rafael Araujo to the Jazz.

Whaley was thrown into the deal along with Kris Humphries to make the salaries match, and according to the Toronto Sun Humphries touched down in town a few days ago for his physical.  Naiditch hopes the Raptors either commit to Whaley or waive him -- and not leave him dangling in the wind.

"It's hard for me to say anything about Robert being waived. They make that decision," Naiditch said. "But if they are going to waive him, the sooner the better. The (NBA) Summer League is coming up (in the first week of July) and it would be nice for Robert to be free to play for a team that's really interested in him."

Sources in Toronto say Bryan Colangelo plans to waive Robert Whaley.

Whaley and Kris Humphries were acquired last week in a trade for Rafael Araujo.

According to a report in the Deseret News, the Utah Jazz suggest that there is a good chance they'll make a significant deal before the 2006-07 season begins, and that the team would  not mind trading up from their #14 position in the upcoming NBA draft.

The Houston Chronicle recently reported that the Jazz join Portland, New Orleans/Oklahoma City, Golden State, Philadelphia and Orlando on the long list of teams that "would like to move up" by draft night.

Seattle, which currently has the 10th pick, and Toronto, which owns the No. 1 overall, both reportedly are interested in perhaps moving down.

The Toronto Raptors have traded center Rafael Araujo to the Utah Jazz in exchange for Kris Humphries and Robert Whaley.

Bryan Colangelo, the Raptors new GM, was quoted as saying,
"We wish Rafael well and feel this will be a positive move for both teams."

Araujo was a controversial pick of the 2004 Draft, when the Raptors selected him with the 8th selection.