We want an answer, and we want it, well, not now but as soon as possible, pretty please, Mr. Stockton, sir.
     
That's the basic approach being taken by the Jazz, whose future personnel needs are in a bind until their 40-year-old point guard decides whether he will retire or return for a 19th NBA season in Utah.
     
Jazz brass are hopeful John Stockton will return, but they don't want to publicly press the issue.
     
That's not the case, though, with everyone in the organization.
     
"Yes, absolutely. And he knows that, and he's prepared to do that," Jazz owner Larry H. Miller said when asked if he wants Stockton to make his intentions known sooner rather than later.