Jazz owner and CEO Greg Miller is unhappy with comments made by assistant coach Karl Malone in an interview with a Salt Lake City newspaper. Miller claims Malone lied to the newspaper when the Hall of Famer said the only way he could get Jazz tickets was to purchase them from a scalper.

Miller refuted the statement in a blog post, referring to Malone as being “too unreliable and too unstable” to help the team as an assistant coach.

Miller also sent a tweet: Hey Karl – You’re lying. You have my number. Next time you need a seat to a Jazz game, call me. You can have mine.

Miller’s comments came one week after Malone criticized the way the team handled last year’s feud between point guard Deron Williams and coach Jerry Sloan, who resigned midseason. Malone said that Williams, since traded to the Nets, was given too much power by the Jazz, and in turn the coach had to pay the price.

Said Malone in a radio interview: “I know for a fact that [Sloan] was overridden on practices sometimes on the road because Deron was calling our GM [Kevin O'Connor] at that time. … You give a guy that much power, and he’s the kind of player you think he played hard all the time, but if he wanted to sulk he could sulk. … I never went to [late owner] Larry [Miller] to talk about coach Sloan. … It’s not one time, in my gut and heart, that I would go over his head.”

Greg Miller, who took over the team following his father’s death, wrote in his blog post that Malone isn’t worth the trouble he causes: The fact is Karl is still as high-maintenance as he ever was, but now he has nothing to offer to offset the grief and aggravation that comes with him.

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