NBA NOTEBOOK: LIVINGSTON OUT 2 MONTHS WITH DISLOCATED KNEECAP.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Clippers rookie Shaun Livingston Shaun Patrick Livingston (born September 11, 1985, in Peoria, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA. Livingston plays point guard for the Los Angeles Clippers. injured his right knee during practice Monday and will miss at least two months with a 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. kneecap kneecap (patella), saucer-shaped bone at the front of the knee joint; it protects the ends of the femur, or thighbone, and the tibia, the large bone of the foreleg. The kneecap is embedded in the tendon tissue of the quadriceps femoris, a large thigh muscle. . The 19-year-old, taken with the fourth pick in the NBA draft, was averaging 21 minutes a game, putting in five points, two rebounds and 2.6 assists a contest. The injury came after Kerry Kittles, who missed all of training camp and the team's first 10 games, returned following knee therapy. It arrived during the team's first practice at the Spectrum Club South Bay, where it moved training sessions from L.A. Southwest College. Toward the end of practice, Livingston, participating in a 3-on-3 drill, headed to the basket, jumped and landed awkwardly. His knee gave way, and he laid in pain for several minutes. - Joe Stevens --New plan: An advertising campaign for the Charlotte Bobcats scheduled to begin this week could become a casualty of Friday's brawl in Auburn Hills, Mich. Created in a slapstick slapstick Comedy characterized by broad humour, absurd situations, and vigorous, often violent action. It took its name from a paddlelike device, probably introduced by 16th-century commedia dell'arte troupes, that produced a resounding whack when one comic actor used it to vein, they were to introduce an ardent Bobcats fan, the Ambassador, who appears around Charlotte with cardboard cutouts representing star players on teams the Bobcats will play this season, including Kobe Bryant, Yao Ming and Shaquille O'Neal. The O'Neal cutouts are smashed, wrecked, soaked, buried or ruined. The O'Neal cutout cut·out n. 1. Something cut out or intended to be cut out from something else. 2. Electricity A device that interrupts, bypasses, or disconnects a circuit or circuit element. 3. falls into a barbecue grill at a cookout and is incinerated. ``In light of this past weekend's events, the climate has changed, and we have an obligation to review what we've done,'' Ed Tapscott, president of the Bobcats, told The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. ``We wanted to strike a note of humor, comedy, but we are going to take a look at our ad campaign to make sure it is not misinterpreted.'' |
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