<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> The Jazz framed Jerry Sloan's extension as a multiyear deal, renegotiating the final season of his contract and adding the 2008-09 season. Sloan previously made $4.5 million a season and will be one of the five highest-paid coaches in the NBA with the new deal.</p> </p> But the Jazz also want to avoid the perception that their coach ever is a lame duck entering his last season. As a result, they will have to talk extension with Sloan again this summer, with Miller saying, "That's probably the new pattern, where we'll just do it a year at a time."</p> </p> Asked about feeling more comfortable with a one-year extension than two, Sloan said: "In my situation, you're too old to be greedy. I don't know how long I'll coach. Like I said, these [assistant coaches] in here do a great job and we'll just see what happens." -- <font color="#000000">Salt Lake Tribune</font></p> </p> </p> [*]"We're interested in having him be here, of course, as long as he wants to be," Jazz owner Larry H. Miller said at halftime of Utah's 110-101 win over Miami on Monday. </p> "What was interesting to me was that he was more definitive than he'd been before about 'Yeah, I want to be here, and I want to be here at least one more year.'</p> </p> "He said, 'Well, I'd rather not commit long-term.' I said, 'What does that mean?' He said, 'Well, I know I want to be here this year, and I want to be here one more, and I don't know after that. ... I'd like to, but I don't want to commit long-term,' " Miller added. "I said, 'Well, tell me what you want to do.' He said, 'Let's go one more for now, and look at it again a year from now.'" -- <font color="#000000">Deseret Morning News</font></p></div> </p>
