Jerry Sloan hasn’t coached since resigned from the Jazz in Feb. 2011. (Melissa Majchrzak/NBA/Getty Images)

The Milwaukee Bucks have met with former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan about their coaching vacancy, reports USA Today.

Sloan has not coached in the NBA since resigning from the Jazz in February 2011. Sloan is 1221-803 in 26 seasons as a head coach.

Milwaukee will be seeking to replace Scott Skiles who was fired in midseason and Jim Boylan whose services were not retained after the Bucks were swept in their first-round playoff series against the Miami Heat.

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Sloan has already met with the Milwaukee Bucks about their vacant coaching position and is being seriously considered. The people spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the coaching search.

Sloan has been looking for a landing spot for quite some time, but he could be a tailor-made fit for a Bucks situation that has much in common with the Utah job he held for 23 years.

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Former Jazz coach Jerry Sloan has been linked to the Lakers. (Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images)

A look at the Lakers’ rough start to the 2012-13 season by Hoopsworld’s Alex Kennedy includes a prediction that coach Mike Brown will be fired within a month and possibly replaced by veteran Jerry Sloan.

Many within NBA circles believe it’s only a matter of time before Brown is fired. Jerry Sloan and Mike D’Antoni are two names that have surfaced as possible replacements for Brown.

“Jerry Sloan to L.A. by December 1,” one league source predicted. “Nash and Howard are the new Stockton and Malone. He wants a ring, not to mention the money. He didn’t seriously consider Orlando, Charlotte or Portland [openings] over the summer because he knew Los Angeles would open up.”

The Lakers’ 0-3 start has included an offense struggling to adapt to a Princeton style system that’s added to the criticism of Brown and doubts as to his future with the team.

Kobe Bryant has stressed for Lakers fans to be patient as the team learns the new offense. It remains to be seen just how patient the Buss family will be with Brown at the helm of a bulked up roster that includes Dwight Howard and Steve Nash.

Jerry Sloan interviewed with Portland Trail Blazers general manager Neil Olshey for the team’s head coaching job on Wednesday but took himself out of the running on Thursday.

Now Chris Haynes of CSNNW.com reports that the Blazers had back-and-forth conversations with Phil Jackson for the last few months trying to convince him to take the head coaching job. But last week Jackson’s agent called the team and said that Jackson had decided not to coach this season.

Olshey confirmed that the organization chased Jackson but would not elaborate beyond saying, “He decided it wasn’t time.”

The Charlotte Bobcats will interview Brian Shaw, who has been an assistant with Kobe Bryant’s Lakers and the Indiana Pacers, for their vacant head-coaching position. (Noah Graham/Getty Images)

Coming off the worst season in NBA history, the Charlotte Bobcats have already interviewed more potential next head coaches (eight) than the organization had wins last season (seven).

The Bobcats plan to add two more highly touted assistant names to that coaching search, according to a report from ESPN’s Chris Broussard. The Bobcats have lined up meetings with Pacers assistant Brian Shaw and Lakers assistant Quin Snyder, Broussard reports.

Shaw was an assistant with Phil Jackson’s Lakers for seven seasons and is widely considered a favorite to land a head-coaching job sometime soon. Shaw was a candidate for the Lakers job after Jackson departed last season, but Los Angeles ultimately chose Mike Brown.

Snyder was the head coach at the University of Missouri from 1999-2006, where he led the Tigers to four NCAA tournament berths in his first four seasons but didn’t reach the Big Dance after that. Snyder was an assistant with the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2010-11 season before moving onto Brown’s staff this year.

The Bobcats finished just 7-59 this season for the worst winning percentage in NBA history at .106. They lost 22 games by 20 points or more. So Michael Jordan’s organization has gone far and wide thus far to find a good fit as its next head coach.

The Bobcats have already interviewed eight candidates for the position — Jerry Sloan, Patrick Ewing, Nate McMillan, Dave Joerger, Mike Malone, Nate Tibbetts, Mike Dunlap and Stephen Silas. Stephen Silas is the son of Paul Silas, who the Bobcats fired after the season.

The NBA Draft lottery is this week, and the Bobcats have the best chance of any team to land the No. 1 pick, pegged extensively as Kentucky forward Anthony Davis.

Jerry Sloan said on Tuesday that he is in talks with Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan to coach the team next season. (Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE/Getty Images)

Jerry Sloan said Wednesday that he has spoken with Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan about coaching the team. The two sides could meet as early as next week, Sloan confirmed to Steve Luhm of the Salt Lake Tribune:

Asked if he had talked to any team about a job opening, Sloan mentioned Jordan and the Bobcats, who finished 7-59 during the lockout-shortened season and then fired coach Paul Silas.

According to Sloan, undertaking such a massive rebuilding job would not prevent him from considering Charlotte.

“Obviously, you probably wouldn’t win [a championship] right off the bat,’ he said. ‘But sometimes it’s not all about starting on top.”

Sloan also said that he would be interested in coaching the Orlando Magic, who fired their head coach, Stan Van Gundy, and parted ways with General Manager, Otis Smith, on Monday.

Sloan spoke with The Tribune from his farm outside McLeansboro, Ill. and “made it clear that he would like to return to coaching after being away from basketball for 15 months.”

As the longest tenured coach of any professional team, Sloan announced his resignation from the Utah Jazz in February 2011 after 23 seasons.