The Jazz will not pick up the third-year option on the contract of guard Morris Almond, who spent a majority of last season in the NBDL.

Almond said he was told by Utah GM Kevin O'Connor that the team would not exercise the option, worth $1.157 million, to bring him back for the 2009-10 season.

"I've seen that coming for a while," Almond said, who added that the team has been trying to trade him in recent weeks.

Jazz GM Kevin O'Connor confirmed to Deseret News columnist Tim Buckley on Tuesday that Deron Williams will not be in uniform when Utah opens their season on Wednesday.

"He's done everything humanly possible to get ready," O'Connor said today. "He's just not ready to go."

O'Connor also said Williams is "doubtful" for the Jazz's game Saturday against the Los Angeles Clippers.

Deron Williams is doubtful for the Jazz' season opener against the Nuggets on Wednesday due to a sprained left ankle, as reported by Yahoo.com.

Williams suffered a second-degree inversion sprain of the ankle in a game against the Bulls on October 18.

The Jazz also announced that forward Matt Harpring is doubtful for the opening game with a right ankle injury.

The Utah Jazz waived guard Gerry McNamara after practice on Saturday to reduce their roster to the NBA limit of 15.

The move was fully expected since all fifteen who remain with the team have guaranteed contracts.

Utah owner Larry Miller has had outpatient surgery for a bone infection and diabetic ulcers doctors found in his foot.

He will undergo six weeks of IV and hyperbaric chamber therapy for the conditions. The surgery was performed Wednesday.

Miller, 64, also had a heart attack this summer.

Utah Jazz General Manager Kevin O?Connor announced today that the team has requested waivers on forwards Kevin Lyde and Gabe Muoneke.

Lyde appeared in three preseason contests with the Jazz, averaging 5.3 points and 1.7 rebounds in 10.3 minutes. Muoneke recorded four preseason games as a Jazzman, registering 1.3 points and 0.8 rebounds in 7.5 minutes a game.

The Jazz roster now stands at 16.

Even with point guard Deron Williams out for two weeks with a sprained ankle, Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan will not move former All-Star Andrei Kirilenko off the bench and into the starting lineup.

Sloan has started C.J. Miles at forward, with Kirilenko coming off the bench this preseason.

"I hope that works out," said Sloan. "Andrei's played awfully well coming off the bench.

"I think he's made those guys (other Jazz subs) better," Sloan added. "I think he's made those guys a little more comfortable playing the game, and the way he played in the game (Saturday night at Chicago) was really refreshing, because he was playing against a bigger guy, and that puts a lot of pressure on the bigger guy to have to play him."

Jazz point guard Deron Williams will miss two weeks of action with a sprained left ankle.

Williams had an MRI on Monday, two days after he was injured in a preseason game at Chicago.

MRI results showed no damage to the bone and tendons around the ankle, but the second-degree sprain will keep him out for a minimum of two weeks.

Jazz point guard Deron Williams is scheduled to undergo an MRI on his sprained left ankle on Monday.

General Manager Kevin O'Connor said that the test will help the team determine how long the Olympian will be sidelined with the injury.

Williams was taken by wheelchair to the locker room and left the arena on crutches after suffering the injury against the Bulls on Saturday night.

"When you see how hard he's worked this summer and you see how he's prepared himself to play this season, and he's in tip-top shape and you just hate to see him go down," Ronnie Price said of Williams.

Deron Williams sprained his left ankle in the opening quarter of Utah's preseason game Saturday night at Chicago when he landed on the foot of Derrick Rose.

He sustained an inversion sprain, but X-rays on the ankle ? which appeared to bend quite awkwardly ? were negative.