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Los Angeles • When Donald Trump chalked up the lewd and now infamous conversation he had with television host Billy Bush as "locker room talk" it raised a few eyebrows of some men who spend a lot of time in such places.

"Locker room?" Clippers shooting guard Jamal Crawford tweeted as Trump again defended himself with the phrase during Sunday night's debate.

The conversation, caught on a hot microphone during a 2005 taping of "Access Hollywood" and released last week, and the subsequent explanation apparently didn't sit well with Crawford or his coach.

"Not any locker room I've been in," Clippers head coach Doc Rivers said ahead of Monday's preseason game against the Utah Jazz.

"I don't like them. They're bad comments," Rivers continued. "They're demeaning to women. I have a daughter. I think when people throw out that word 'locker room talk,' there's nobody talking like that in the locker room. Is there swearing in the locker room? Yeah, every other word. But there's nobody demeaning people. There are players in our locker room with sisters, wives and daughters. There's not that type of talk in anyone's locker room."

Thinking it through

In the privacy of the team's practice facility, point guard Danté Exum says he hasn't been shy about getting to the basket.

But the young point guard is still finding his way in games.

"We tell him to be aggressive," center Rudy Gobert said. "He's a different player when he's aggressive."

Exum has been watching film with assistant coach Lamar Skeeter, breaking down his performance in early preseason games and his work in practice. The point guard believes he's making the strides he needs to make.

"I'm trying to think through the game a bit too much," he said. "That's what the first game was a lot about. The second game was just trying to make that decision and go through it and assess after rather than thinking it through a thousand times on the spot."

Favoring his knee

Derrick Favors has not played in a game or practiced fully since the Jazz's preseason opener last week in Portland and he did not travel with his teammates to L.A. for Monday's game. But Jazz coach Quin Snyder said the soreness in the forward's left knee, diagnosed now as the common runner's injury iliotibial band syndrome, isn't cause for panic.

"It's something like any situation you continue to treat it and monitor it," the coach said.

Asked if Favors had been running marathons, Snyder laughed.

"That's a good question," he said. "Not to my knowledge."

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