The Utah Jazz and Keith McLeod agreed to terms Friday, giving the Jazz a third point guard.
McLeod, who made the Jazz as a free agent last fall and ended up as the starter much of the season, was a restricted free agent. McLeod started 47 of the 53 games he played for the Jazz, averaging 7.8 points and 4.5 assists.

Terms of the deal were not released.

McLeod, rookie Daron Williams and Milt Palacio will be Utah's point guards when the Jazz open training camp next week in Boise.

Before joining the Jazz, McLeod played in 33 games with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2003-04. He went undrafted out of Bowling Green in 2002.

Talks are ongoing with Jazz restricted free agent point guard Keith McLeod, whose representative has yet to present the Jazz with an offer sheet from another team.

The Jazz signed him to a qualifying offer during the summer and will retain his rights unless another team signs him to an offer sheet that the Jazz don't care to match. Utah would likely match any reasonable amount.

Keith McLeod appears to be staying in Utah.

?We did have an interest in bringing Keith here, but our feeling is that there isn?t any real chance,? Toronto Raptors General Manager Rob Babcock recently told The Repository. ?For what I can gather, Utah would match any offer made for Keith.?

McLeod is a restricted free agent, meaning that the Jazz have the opportunity to match any offer sheet he signs. Utah extended a one-year, $937,500 qualifying offer to the 6-foot-2 point guard earlier this summer and seems poised to retain him.

?He?s a good defender, he?s a goof ball-handler, he distributes the ball well and he knows how to run our offense,? Jazz Chief Financial Officer Bob Hyde said. ?And our offense is one that requires a lot of execution."

Utah Jazz senior vice president of basketball operations said Monday evening he has not heard yet if the San Antonio Spurs will match his offer sheet for restricted free-agent guard Devin Brown.
     
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich had told the San Antonio Express-News on Friday that he planned to discuss the matter with general manager R.C. Buford over the weekend and have a decision by Monday morning, but a public announcement was not made Monday.
   
O'Connor said he doubted the Spurs would do anything prior to the deadline ? seven days from when they received a copy of the signed offer sheet ? because another team might offer a trade over the next few days that would mean the Spurs would want to hold onto Brown. Or a Spurs player could sustain an injury.
     
Utah's two-year offer is apparently for $2.5 million this season, a bit more next season, with the second year at the option of the team.
   
O'Connor said he's not sure exactly when San Antonio received a copy of the offer sheet but guessed it was last Friday morning, meaning the Spurs have until this Friday morning to match it. Official NBA transactions list the date as Friday.

Barring a last-second change of heart, the Spurs are expected to inform both Devin Brown and the Utah Jazz that they will not match the offer sheet Brown signed Thursday with the Jazz. Brown is a restricted free agent, meaning the Spurs have seven days to decide if they want to match the offer Brown received.

Head coach and executive vice-president Gregg Popovich said he will meet with general manager R.C. Buford this weekend to discuss Brown's offer sheet from Utah and will make their decision known no later than Monday morning.

There is no likelihood Popovich and Buford will elect to match Utah's offer. Brown knows this, and has steeled himself to leave San Antonio, where the former West Campus High School and UTSA standout has played the past two seasons for the Spurs.

"I always wanted to stay here in San Antonio," Brown said, "but the way the numbers are unfolding, and the passion I have for the game and the burning inside to want to play sways your mind a little bit.

"I just want to do the best job I can being able to perform on a regular basis. That sort of answers the question of how I'm leaning."

The numbers to which Brown referred include the NBA's luxury tax threshold of $61.7 million. Teams that exceed that figure have to pay a "tax" to the league, dollar for dollar, for player payroll that exceeds the threshold.

Devin Brown, the San Antonio Spurs' restricted free agent, has signed an offer sheet for a two-year deal from the Jazz, a league source told The Salt Lake Tribune.
 
Earlier this summer, Brown's agent, Darrick Powell, met with the Jazz and said at the time that the meeting went well and that his client was "eager" to play for the Jazz.
 
The Spurs have seven days to match Utah's offer, but the Spurs may not feel the need to keep Brown because they were the winner in the Michael Finley popularity contest, although San Antonio general manager R.C. Buford told the San Antonio Express-News he would not rule out matching an offer from another team.
 
Finley, a two-time All-Star released by Dallas under the amnesty rule, was courted by Miami, Phoenix and Minnesota before he signed with San Antonio on Wednesday.
 
It was predicted that once Finley signed, other free agents would quickly follow suit. On Wednesday, O'Connor said Finley's signing would impact the Jazz.
 
"There is always a domino effect with a player like that that affects a lot of teams," O'Connor said of the Finley waiting game.
 
The 6-foot-5 Brown is considered one of the top swingmen still available after averaging 7.4 points and 2.6 rebounds for the Spurs last season.

Assuming Toronto unrestricted free-agent guard Milt Palacio passes his doctors' examination this morning, the Jazz will add the veteran defender to the point guard spot to go along with No. 3 overall draft choice Deron Williams and, probably, restricted free agent Keith McLeod.
     
Palacio was in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, visiting with Jazz senior vice president of basketball operations Kevin O'Connor, and agreed to sign a contract with Utah today, if all goes well with the physical.

Terms were not disclosed.

Utah is still interested in San Antonio restricted free agent guard Devin Brown, who likely became more available Wednesday when the Spurs signed hot free agent Michael Finley.

"That's an interesting deal," O'Connor observed.