BRIEFLY INJURED OLAJUWON OUT 4 TO 6 WEEKS.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services Hakeem Olajuwon Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon (born Akeem Abdul Olajuwon on January 21, 1963) is a retired Nigerian-American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). will be sidelined four to six weeks because of a strained right thigh, but the Toronto Raptors  The Toronto Raptors are a professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario. center will not need surgery. Olajuwon will begin intensive rehabilitation once the swelling subsides, the team said Tuesday. Olajuwon was injured during the second quarter of Toronto's 106-97 victory over Orlando on Sunday. --Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics and Dirk Nowitzki Dirk Werner Nowitzki (IPA pronuncation: [no'vɪtski]) (born June 19, 1978 in Würzburg, Germany) is a German basketball player for the United States' National Basketball Association's (NBA) Dallas Mavericks. of the Dallas Mavericks  The introduction of this article is too short.To comply with Wikipedia's lead section guidelines, it should be expanded. were among seven reserves picked for their first NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= All-Star games. Jermaine O'Neal Jermaine L. O'Neal (born October 13 1978, in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American National Basketball Association player who currently plays for the Indiana Pacers. O'Neal, a 6 ft 11 in (2. of Indiana and Shareef Abdur-Rahim of Atlanta joined Pierce as first-time picks on the East team and will be joined by veterans Alonzo Mourning (Miami), Ray Allen (Milwaukee), Jason Kidd (New Jersey) and Tracy McGrady (Orlando). Steve Nash (Dallas), Wally Szczerbiak (Minnesota), Peja Stojakovic (Sacramento) and Nowitzki were first-time picks on the West team. The other West reserves are Karl Malone (Utah), Gary Payton (Seattle) and Chris Webber (Sacramento). The All-Star Game is Feb. 10 in Philadelphia. --Bryant Reeves, the first player ever drafted by the Memphis Grizzlies, is retiring because of chronic back pain. SOCCER: Brazilian star Ronaldo plans to see a specialist in Paris in hopes of ending the string of hamstring injuries that have repeatedly sidelined him. --The U.S. Soccer Federation confirmed that the national team will play exhibition games at Italy, Germany and Ireland in preparation for the World Cup. The Americans play Italy at Catania on Feb. 13, Germany at Rostock on March 27 and Ireland at Dublin on April 17. FOOTBALL: Georgia gave head coach Mark Richt a one-year contract extension, locking him up to coach the Bulldogs through 2006. --USC's season opener against Auburn has been moved from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 in order to be televised nationally by ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. . The game will kick off at 5 p.m. at the Coliseum. |
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