"It's certainly not gonna happen again," the Jazz GM said. "And we'll figure out a way for it. I don't know what that way is right now."

Sloan, meanwhile, suggested such an episode was inevitable.

"That was what was gonna happen in the first place, it appeared to me," he said. "I mean, this (the locker room) is kind of a private thing we're in sometimes.

"Then something like that comes out, you get a black eye for it," added Sloan, who admittedly has a salty tongue. "What are you gonna do about it?"

The Jazz's next major-network game, incidentally, is Jan. 10 at Phoenix — on TNT. They currently are scheduled for one more ESPN game — their season finale, April 16 at San Antonio.

OKUR OUT: Jazz starting center Mehmet Okur didn't play Friday against Portland and plans to undergo precautionary testing today — both X-rays and an MRI — on his sore left shoulder.

"I really thought it was just bruised," said Okur, an All-Star last season. "Then I just can't move. I can't reach, like, 100 percent. So I just want to make sure everything is OK."

Okur injured the shoulder when Utah fell to Portland last Tuesday, and he didn't play in Wednesday's loss at Phoenix. On Friday, he wasn't sure if he'd able to play when the Jazz face Seattle tonight.

"It depends how I feel," Okur said. "I want to be out there ... But I can't reach, I can't move up and down. I can't imagine myself with contact inside, pushing each other."

HE SAID IT: Miami Herald sportswriter Dan Le Batard, speaking on ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption" show about Sloan getting caught swearing: "The surprise is if he doesn't do that."

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