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Mourning Will Be Sidelined For Season

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The Associated Press

Published: December 21, 2007

MIAMI - The notion of not seeing Alonzo Mourning play basketball again is a difficult one for the Miami Heat to accept.

Mourning had surgery Thursday to repair a torn patellar tendon in his right knee and a quadriceps tear in the same leg. The injury, which he suffered Wednesday night in Miami's overtime loss at Atlanta, will almost certainly keep Mourning sidelined for the remainder of the season.

And since Mourning insists this season is his last, that would mean his career is likely finished as well.

"I lost a brother," Heat center Shaquille O'Neal said Thursday night before Miami hosted New Jersey. "I lost a partner. I've lost a bodyguard."
Coach Pat Riley said Mourning would be in a cast for a couple of months, followed by rehabilitation that could last six more months.

In other news, the Heat may protest what they believe was a scoring error in Wednesday's loss.

O'Neal fouled out with 51 seconds remaining in Miami's 117-111 loss - but stat sheets distributed immediately after the game showed the Miami center with five fouls.

The sheet was eventually revised to show O'Neal with six fouls, although those charting on the Miami bench also had O'Neal with five.

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