Johnnie Bryant was hardly expecting to land a job with the Jazz when he went to work out with them today. But he does think the experience can help him land a job overseas soon.

"Now I have a resource," he said, "another reference that can help me."

Bryant said he worked out with the Jazz mostly to provide a guard to practice pick-and-rolls and other drills with 7-foot-2 Roy Hibbert of Georgetown. But knowing that "everything in basketball goes off word of mouth," he figures that making the contacts within the NBA can only help.

To that extent, Bryant said he's sticking around Salt Lake City this summer -- "it's cheaper than California," the Oakland native said -- to work out while his agent works on finding him a basketball job overseas. Bryant doesn't have a preferred destination; he wants to end up anywhere he can get paid to play basketball, even though he recently earned his second college degree aafter finishing his eligibility with the Utes.

He might not be done working out with the Jazz, though.

Today's session was a "spur of the moment" thing, Bryant said, and expects that he might be called upon again if the Jazz need his help. By the end of the summer, though, he figures to have landed a basketball job somewhere -- though his ultimate post-basketball goal is to work as a sports agent.

In fact, it turns out that his agent and Hibbert's agent have a relationship, "so we had a lot more in common than we thought at the start of today."