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Familiar sight New York's Ewing sits out Game 3 with tendinitis
Posted: Saturday May 27, 2000 04:28 PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- Knicks center Patrick Ewing sat out Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals Saturday between New York and the Indiana Pacers because of tendinitis in his right foot. Ewing hurt the foot during the first quarter of Thursday's Game 2 and sat out the rest of the way as the Pacers won at home to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. Chris Dudley, who had played a total of 10 minutes this postseason before Saturday, started in place of Ewing, who sat at the end of the Knicks bench wearing a gray suit. "Patrick was re-evaluated this morning. He is improving, and the soreness is diminishing, but he will not play today," Knicks team doctor Norman Scott said. "His status is day-to-day for Monday's game." The teams have been in this position before. Ewing's 1999 season ended in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals, also against Indiana, when his left Achilles' tendon gave out. New York won three of the last four games in that series to win it 4-2. "I think we've been through every scenario with Patrick's injury over the past few years," Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy said before Saturday's tipoff. "We're losing the best player we've had over the last four or five games of the playoffs, but there's going to be no mental effect. ... "We can't feel sorry for ourselves. We can't have this on our minds." Van Gundy is used to preparing his team without Ewing, who missed this season's first 20 games while recovering from a partially torn Achilles' tendon. The Knicks went 11-9 during that span, and 39-23 the rest of the way, with Ewing in the starting lineup. Through New York's first 12 playoff games -- an opening-round sweep of the Toronto Raptors, a seven-game defeat of Miami in the second round and the first two games against Indiana -- Ewing averaged 14.4 points, third on the team, and a team-high 9.5 rebounds.
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