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Jazz suspend Ostertag indefinitelyUtah Jazz center Greg Ostertag said Thursday that the matter that caused him to be suspended indefinitely without pay will be resolved by Friday, when he said he plans to meet with coach Jerry Sloan about the incident that happened immediately following Wednesday night's loss in the Delta Center to Seattle.
Jazz senior vice president of basketball operations Kevin O'Connor had said prior to Thursday morning's practice, which Ostertag did not attend, that Ostertag had been suspended "indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the team."
"It involved an incident after the (Wednesday night) game," O'Connor said. "Since he's not at practice today, that's when (the suspension) started."
The decision not to come to practice, said O'Connor, was Ostertag's own.
"We did not tell him not to come to practice," O'Connor said.
"They knew I wouldn't be there," Ostertag said Thursday afternoon. "I told Kevin (Wednesday) night.
"It wouldn't have done me any good," Ostertag said, adding he had been up until "6 or 6:30 this morning" with a lot on his mind.
O'Connor said the team will have a meeting with Ostertag and go from there. He did not completely rule out Ostertag being in uniform for Saturday's game at Dallas, his hometown. In fact, O'Connor intimated that, had Ostertag come to practice Thursday, the matter might have been resolved before practice, though he said he didn't know if that would have been the case.
Sloan refused to comment other than to confirm that the incident happened right after Wednesday's game.
Since players are paid per game, Ostertag would not lose money until he misses a game, though O'Connor said he is investigating nuances about the process. There is also a clause in the recent collective bargaining agreement that says players may be fined $2,500 for missing one practice. The fine goes to $5,000 for missing a second practice. The Jazz have a practice scheduled for Friday morning prior to flying to Dallas.
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