Utah Jazz falter late against Mavericks

Jefferson held his tongue in the locker room, though.

"I'm speaking on the game," he said. "I don't want to speak on that part because I don't want to say nothing that's going to get me in trouble."

Asked if he regretted clapping in the ref's face, Jefferson again said that he didn't want to comment on the situation.

A minute later, though, he light-heartedly said that his only regret was that his grandmother heard him swear on TV. That, he laughed, won't go over well with her.

But Jefferson has only had two previous technicals, so this was one of the rare times the big man has lost his cool.

"He don't like to lose like just like nobody else like to lose on this team," Millsap said "But it happens."

Added Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin: "I think he was a little frustrated. It's not who we are. We don't want to show anybody up, and we'll have a conversation about it. I think he's just frustrated because he didn't feel he got a couple of calls on the other end."

Corbin doesn't believe it's a reflection of Jefferson's character, though.

"It's just one situation. Al, he's a great guy," Corbin said. "That won't take anything away from that. He was just a little frustrated at the time."

And he certainly wasn't the only one in the building with that emotion.

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