A war of words has erupted between the owner and CEO of the Utah Jazz and the first-ballot Hall of Famer who fueled the team's golden era.

The most-stinging salvo came Friday night in a blog post written by Greg Miller in which he called Karl Malone "too unreliable and too unstable" to help the team as an assistant coach

and claimed the 14-time All-Star and two-time NBA MVP lied to a newspaper about having to use a scalper to purchase tickets to a Jazz game.

The blog followed a scathing Twitter post earlier Friday by Miller, the son of longtime Jazz owner Larry Miller, who died in 2009.

Jazz owner Greg Miller calls Karl Malone "too unreliable and too unstable" to help the team as an assistant coach and says the Hall of Famer lied in an interview with a Salt Lake City newspaper. Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE/Getty Images

"Hey Karl - you're lying," Miller wrote on Twitter. "You have my number. Next time you need a seat to a Jazz game, call me. You can have mine."

Miller's reactions came a week after Malone also called out the Jazz for their handling of the Deron Williams-Jerry Sloan feud.

During a radio appearance Jan. 27, Malone said the Jazz gave Williams too much power, and ultimately it was their coach who paid the price.

"I know for a fact that (Sloan) was overridden on practices sometime on the road because Deron was calling our GM (Kevin O'Connor) at that time," Malone said, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. " ... 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 (co-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."

But in a statement released by the Jazz on Saturday, Sloan disputed Malone's interpretation of the events surrounding his former coach's departure. Malone played for Sloan from 1988 to 2004.

"I left on my own volition. It is not true that the Millers undermined my authority as head coach," said Sloan, who is also a member of the Hall of Fame. "I had their complete backing to run the team as I wished and was assured that no player could ever overrule my decisions. The Millers encouraged me to stay with the team and gave me multiple opportunities to do so. They felt strongly that I should wait at least until the end of the season to resign and did everything they could to keep me coaching."

Malone, speaking Saturday to The Salt Lake Tribune, reiterated his stance of a week ago.

"I expressed what I feel and I don't regret what I said," Malone told the newspaper. "It's what I believe about Coach Sloan."

Miller, in his Friday blog post, had alluded to a history of difficulties in dealing with Malone.

"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," Miller wrote.