The Jazz are not happy with the NBA for a variety of reasons, all stemming from the league's decision Wednesday to suspend head coach Jerry Sloan seven games for shoving referee Courtney Kirkland during a game at Sacramento Tuesday night.
     
On Thursday, Jazz basketball operations vice president Kevin O'Connor issued a statement for the franchise that echoes comments made Wednesday by Utah players and assistant coach Phil Johnson.
     
"Excessive. That's the word I would use," O'Connor said of the length of Sloan's suspension. "I mean, I can go around and talk 18 different ways about it, but that's just what we felt as an organization."