The Utah Jazz did background work on Marcus Smart and have interest in taking him with the fifth overall pick on Thursday night, but the team was never able to get him in for a workout.

Reports have indicated that Smart and his agent, Lee Melchionni, have been trying to make sure he doesn’t fall past the Orlando Magic at No. 4.

"It was my agent, you've got to talk to my agent about that," Smart said Wednesday when asked about the decision not to work out for Utah. Smart added that he met with some representatives from the Jazz in Chicago during the combine.

"It was a great experience," he said. "We had a great talk, a great conversation. I got to know the coaching staff, the owners and everybody else."

Speculation has been that Smart would prefer to avoid the Jazz because they already have Trey Burke. Burke, also a lead guard, finished third in the voting for the 2014 Rookie of the Year.

“It'd be fine with me,” Smart said of potential playing alongside Burke, "but my agent just told me that we weren’t going to workout for [the Jazz] and that was the end of it.”