The Utah Jazz will have Brian Butch, Trey Gilder and Darnell Jackson compete for their final roster spot.

The Jazz roster currently is at 15, but Raja Bell is expected to receive a buyout.

Gordon Hayward is set to begin his critical third season in the NBA.

"I think I've shown that I belong in the league. It's something that you work for and you work towards," Hayward said. "Now I think I know that I belong and everything. Now you push yourself even further, try and become an All-Star. That's definitely a goal of mine, but I think first and foremost I think if we were to win games that will help that out."

Hayward has added five pounds of muscle in the offseason.

"I think as a player you kind of want to improve both as a team and individually from year to year," Hayward added. "I've done that from my rookie to sophomore year. Hopefully I'll do that again this year. Same goes for the team. We missed playoffs first year (39-43 in 2010-11), made it barely the second year, so this year needs to be better than that."

The Utah Jazz will invite Trey Gilder to training camp.

The Jazz already have 15 players on their regular season roster, but Raja Bell isn't expected to participate as he continues to await a buyout.

Gilder was also on Utah's 11-12 training camp roster and played in the D-League last season.

Josh Howard will meet with the San Antonio Spurs on Monday, according to a source.

Howard spent the 11-12 NBA season with the Utah Jazz and remains a free agent.

The Utah Jazz have signed second-round draft pick Kevin Murphy.

The 6-7, 185-pound guard out of Tennessee Tech was selected 47th overall by the Jazz in the 2012 NBA Draft. In five games (two starts) for the Jazz entry in the 2012 Orlando Pro Summer League, Murphy averaged 8.6 points and 2.4 rebounds in 23 minutes of action.

Raja Bell has yet to give the Utah Jazz a decision on a contract buyout as the two sides continue to work toward reaching an agreement, his agent told RealGM on Tuesday.

“We’re talking to their new GM [Dennis Lindsey] and working on it,” agent Herb Rudoy said by phone.

Contrary to multiple reports last month that Bell had been refusing the buyout proposal from the Jazz, Rudoy confirmed that "he hasn’t rejected or accepted anything.”

Bell signed a three-year deal with the Jazz in 2010, but has made known his displeasure and desire to part ways since the middle of the 10-11 season.

Regarded as a quality outside shooter and a gritty defender, Bell, 35, has averaged almost 10 points on 40.6 percent from three-point range over his 12-year career with six different teams. Bell averaged 6.4 points last season, playing in 34 of 66 games.

Michael Sanders has been promoted to an assistant coach on Tyrone Corbin’s staff, after having spent the 2011-12 season as assistant coach/player development with the Utah Jazz.

In a related move, the Jazz has also agreed in principle with veteran NBA Development League coach, and former Jazz scout, Brad Jones to assume Sanders’ previous position as assistant coach/player development.

“Moving Mike from player development to the bench is a promotion that he has earned. His strong work ethic and skillset, coupled with his experience as a former player and coach in the NBA and D-League, has proven to be valuable to our franchise and I look forward to working with him closer in his enhanced role,” said Utah Jazz Head Coach Tyrone Corbin. “Brad is a well-respected and recognized young coaching talent with a proven track-record of player development. We are very happy to be bringing him back to the Jazz family.”

A veteran of the coaching ranks, Sanders recently completed his first season with the Jazz and has previously served as an assistant coach in the NBA for Detroit, Milwaukee and Charlotte.  

Dennis Lindsey has a history of finding gems outside the draft lottery, notably DeJuan Blair (drafted 36th in 2009), Tiago Splitter (28th in 2007) and Danny Green (signed from the D-League in 2010).

Lindsey, hired by the Jazz last month, was an assistant general manager in San Antonio.

"Those are things you notice and you go 'ooooh,' " said Jazz executive vice president Kevin O'Connor. "Will those guys be all-stars? Probably not. But they're good players on a terrific team and they were undervalued; they should've been picked higher. That is a guy who is a proven talent evaluator."

Lindsey got his start in the NBA in 1996 when he was hired by the Rockets. He spent eleven years with the Rockets, working his way up from video coordinator to director of player personnel to vice president of basketball operations and player personnel in 2002.

"He was already handling those duties long before he got the official titles," said Carol Dawson, the former Rockets general manager. "I just trusted him. He was one of the first guys to start using the computer (for evaluating players). He was doing that 'Moneyball' stuff — looking at tendencies. He knew how often a guy went to the baseline and where on the floor his scores came from."

Scott Layden has been hired by the San Antonio Spurs as assistant general manager, according to sources.

Layden was most recently an assistant coach with the Utah Jazz and will replace Dennis Lindsey, who was hired by the Jazz last month as general manager.

Layden was general manager of the Jazz from 1992 until 1999 before becoming president and GM of the Knicks for less than five years.

Layden's primary responsibility will be administering the scouting department of the Spurs.