Jordan, Jarvis Discuss Job Amid Conflicting Reports

Michael Jordan has offered the Washington Wizards coaching job to St. John’s Coach Mike Jarvis, TNT said Wednesday night, although a team source and the Washington Post disputed it.

The team source told The Associated Press the speculation was premature and that the team has no plans for an announcement through the weekend.

Though the Washington Post reported in today’s editions that Jordan, the Wizards’ president of basketball operations, had not offered the job to Jarvis, it did cite several sources who indicated Jordan is close to making an offer.

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Calling it “inordinately excessive,” the NBA Players Assn. will appeal the two-game suspension and $20,000 fine levied against Philadelphia 76er center Matt Geiger and the one-game suspension and $5,000 fine levied against Indiana Pacer guard Reggie Miller for their altercation Saturday during Game 4 of their playoff series.

NBA Commissioner David Stern is expected to rule after the season.

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The Detroit Pistons will sign Coach George Irvine to a three-year contract within the next few days, Joe Dumars, the team’s vice president of player personnel, told Bloomberg News. Irvine replaced the fired Alvin Gentry in March.