Utah Jazz: D-Will hoping bruise isn't serious

ORLANDO — A lower-leg muscle bruise sustained in the second quarter of Sunday's loss at Orlando makes things, including his status for Wednesday's home game against Washington, a wait-and-see proposition for Jazz point guard Deron Williams.

Williams — who sat with his leg wrapped in ice for the last five minutes of the opening half, but did return after the break — said the muscle, located just below his knee, first "started loosening up," then "got stiff as I went back out there and played on it."

"It probably will get a lot more stiff on the plane home," he said at the end of a five-game trip. "It's muscle, so it should hopefully heal. Hopefully it doesn't swell up like the last one."

Earlier this season, Williams — who said he didn't hear anyone call "screen" before he ran into Orlando big man Dwighgt Howard — missed one game because of a stubborn quad contusion.

"I didn't think that one was serious, either, until my knee swelled up," he said, "and this is close to my knee, so we'll see."

Also playing injured Sunday was starting center Mehmet Okur, who has a previously undisclosed sprained right ankle.

"He had his ankle taped up in the (Miami) game (Saturday), and had a tough time finishing this one," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said when asked about Okur's 0-for-7 shooting Sunday. "(But) he played, and that's what you expect him to try to do."

Okur, who played just 13 minutes Sunday, said he got hurt early in Saturday's triple-overtime loss to the Heat.

"It got sore (Sunday) morning," he said, adding there was no swelling but pain in the joint itself.

SLOAN EJECTED: Sloan was ejected Sunday on two technical fouls called just two minutes and 12 seconds into the game.

He wasn't sure if that's the quickest he's ever been tossed, and a team spokesman said official records regarding ejections aren't kept by the NBA.

"I've been kicked out of a lot of games," Sloan said. "I don't know about that quick. I don't have total recall."

Sloan was complaining about a foul call on Okur, who thought he got all ball when lowering his arm on Howard.

"I don't think I've ever seen that," Williams said of his coach being kicked out so fast. "I don't even know what happened."