The Utah Jazz' 18-man roster notably excludes center Robert Whaley, who was traded to Toronto in June but released shortly afterward.

Whaley, who averaged 2.1 points in 23 appearances with Utah last season, had hoped to be invited back, but is no longer in the team's plans.

Sports agent Dwight Manley, who purchased Karl Malone's house high in the Avenues at auction last year, has flipped the property for what could be thousands - even millions - more.

The sales price of the property, purchased for $2.75 million by Manley in June 2005, has not been made public, and under the state's nondisclosure laws may never be. But the property at 930 Northvale Way was assessed by Salt Lake County for just over $5 million for the 2006 tax year, county officials said this week.

Realtor Fred Law of RE/MAX Associates said he wouldn't be surprised if the property sold for around the assessed amount.

"The market, especially in that area, has improved dramatically over the last year," Law said. "Had [Malone] waited just one more year, he would have made more money."

Jerry Sloan, who lost his first wife, Bobbye, to pancreatic cancer in June 2004, remarried this week to Tammy Jessop.

Sloan and Jessop were engaged near the end of the last Jazz season.

Former Utah Jazz forward Karl Malone is accused in a lawsuit of offering a former business partner in eastern Idaho a $25,000 bribe to take the blame for an illegal elk hunting trip.

The suit filed by Sidney Ray Davis of Soda Springs against Malone's Salt Lake City-based property management firm also alleges that Malone's brother-in-law, Ken Kensey, "threatened physical violence" if Davis didn't make the investigation "go away."

Malone's lawyer, Randall Call of Salt Lake City, said the two-time NBA most valuable player "adamantly denies" any bribery or intimidation. He said the lawsuit is frivolous and targets Malone because of his wealth and fame.

"We've dealt with this kind of extortion before," Call said. "It's a little like terrorism, you can't buckle into it at any time or else it will prevail."