The Utah Jazz love Greg Ostertag and would love to keep him around.

We like Greg," Jazz owner Larry H. Miller said Friday, one day after the NBA's two-week free agency negotiating period opened.

"The first thing Kevin (O'Connor, the Jazz's senior vice president for basketball operations) did," Miller said, "was to call Greg and say, 'I don't care what you hear from other guys, but we want you here. But at the right price. We don't have any ax to grind with you, we want you back - but it has to be under circumstances that work for both of us.' "