Kevin O'Connor responded Saturday to comments from agent Dwight Manley, who twice last week publicly blasted the Jazz for their handling of free agent Bryon Russell's departure from Utah.
     
"Dwight has his own opinion," said O'Connor, the Jazz's vice president of basketball operations. "Whatever opinion he has is his own.
     
"If he had something to say to me," O'Connor added, "he should have called me himself."
     
Manley also has been involved in negotiations with the Jazz regarding another one of his clients, Donyell Marshall. But the Jazz informed him they would not be offering Russell, a nine-season Jazz swingman, a new contract shortly after the NBA's free-agent signing period opened earlier this month.
     
It also appears the Jazz have rejected another sign-and-trade offer for Russell, who was previously mentioned in a squashed deal that would have brought ex-University of Utah star Keith Van Horn from New Jersey for Marshall and Russell together.