Whiling away a hot and humid summer on the island he calls home, Carlos Arroyo heard one question over and over.

"Everybody in Puerto Rico," Arroyo said, "was driving me crazy every day, asking me, 'Are you going to back to Utah?'
     
"I would say, 'Yeah, I'm going back. I'm going back.' "
     
The truth, though: Arroyo didn't know.
     
"I definitely wanted to come back," he said, "but it was not up to me."
     
But finally, two-plus weeks after the NBA's free-agency signing period opened, Arroyo got his wish.