LAKERS NOTEBOOK: GRANT TO MISS REST OF SEASON.Byline: Howard Beck Staff Writer EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and - Horace Grant Horace Junior Grant (born July 4 1965 in Augusta, Georgia) is a retired American basketball player. He attended and played college basketball at Clemson University, before playing professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he became a 4-time NBA champion. conceded to pain and reality Monday and declared his comeback season over, just days shy of the playoffs. Coach Phil Jackson
Philip Douglas "Phil" Jackson (born September 17, 1945 in Deer Lodge, Montana) is the current coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, an American professional basketball team. offered him a chance at making the Lakers' playoff roster if Grant could practice just once, but his injured hip would not allow it. So Grant will be on the inactive list when rosters are submitted Thursday at noon. ``I'm going to be the world's biggest cheerleader, I guess,'' he said. Grant will turn 39 in July, just as he enters free agency again, but wants to return to the Lakers. ``I will play again. There's no question,'' he said. ``This is not the way I like to go out as an NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= player. ... This is the place that I'd like to finish my career.'' --Pain, cont.: Rick Fox visited Monday with hand specialist Dr. Norman Zemel, and soon will be fitted with a brace to immobilize im·mo·bi·lize v. 1. To render immobile. 2. To fix the position of a joint or fractured limb, as with a splint or cast. im·mo his dislocated dis·lo·cate tr.v. dis·lo·cat·ed, dis·lo·cat·ing, dis·lo·cates 1. To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship. 2. right thumb. A team official said the brace will ``make it almost impossible for him to play,'' which means it could be three weeks before he's available. ``It won't be that long,'' Fox vowed, though his play could be hindered until the brace comes off. Shaquille O'Neal twisted his left ankle Monday and left the team's facility with an envelope of Indocin - the anti-inflammatory he has several times sworn off because of its side effects Side effects Effects of a proposed project on other parts of the firm. . Kareem Rush said his sprained right ankle was tender but he practiced Monday. Derek Fisher, who suffered bruised ribs Sunday in Sacramento, sat out practice but plans to play tonight. --Fine points: NBA officials have not yet decided whether to fine O'Neal for cursing on live television Sunday, though the matter is under review. Unlike earlier this season, when O'Neal cursed twice during a live postgame interview on the court, the latest incident occurred in a crowded locker room, with multiple cameras, most of them taping. Only one, L.A.'s Channel 7, was broadcasting live. Although the league suspended O'Neal one game for his prior offense, he probably would only be fined this time. ``I'm a grown man,'' O'Neal said. ``I speak my mind when I feel like speaking my mind. I just want all children not to follow in my footsteps, and be leaders and not followers. But for me, when I get mad, I'm going to express my opinion, every time.'' Still upset by the officiating in Sunday's loss, O'Neal said the outcome of the game was ``predetermined pre·de·ter·mine v. pre·de·ter·mined, pre·de·ter·min·ing, pre·de·ter·mines v.tr. 1. To determine, decide, or establish in advance: ,'' but would not elaborate. He said he was not referring to anyone within the Lakers organization. CAPTION(S): box Box: LAKERS vs. GOLDEN STATE - Howard Beck |
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