MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Bucks center Andrew Bogut has a broken hand, a dislocated elbow and a sprained wrist that will keep him out indefinitely after a hard fall in Saturday night’s victory over the Phoenix Suns.
The team said Sunday it does not know when he will return, but the injuries leave his availability for a potential playoff run in doubt.
With Milwaukee leading late in the second quarter, Bogut went in for a fast-break slam dunk. He hung on the rim afterward, was touched in the back by the Suns’ Amar’e Stoudemire and crashed to the court, wrenching his right elbow in ugly fashion trying to brace his fall.
A flagrant foul was called on Stoudemire, but television replays showed what appeared to be relatively light contact with Bogut.
• Darko Milicic was out of Minnesota’s lineup at Oklahoma City after suffering a bruised jaw in a game the previous night.
• Free-agent forward Joey Dor- sey signed a contract with the Raptors through the rest of the season.
• Citing multiple sources, reported that Lakers owner Jerry Buss has been elected into the basketball Hall of Fame.
Lance proving he’s ready for Tour
MEERBEKE, Belgium — Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara shook off Tom Boonen on the toughest climb of the Tour of Flanders and raced to victory ahead of the Belgian champion in one of the season’s top one-day classics.
Lance Armstrong finished 27th as the leading Team RadioShack rider. He saw the event as a training run, while others raced it as their biggest challenge of the year. At 38, Armstrong proved he can still compete with the best on the wet and cold cobblestones, a key lesson to take into this summer’s Tour de France.
“I felt better than I felt all year,” Armstrong said after finishing more than two minutes behind Cancellara.
Footnotes.
A South African white supremacist group whose leader was killed warned other countries to avoid sending their soccer teams to the World Cup and “to a land of murder.” Andre Visagie, a senior member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, said the slaying of leader Eugene Terreblanche “is a declaration of war” by blacks against whites in South Africa.
• Georgia linebacker Montez Robinson was arrested in Athens, Ga., on a misdemeanor charge of simple battery/family violence. No further information was released.
• Marshall football coach Doc Holliday said in a statement that cornerback DeQuan Bembry and defensive back T.J. Drakeford were arrested and face misdemeanor charges stemming from an incident outside a Huntington, W.Va., bar.
• Veteran American powerboat racer David Bryant of Mesa, Ariz., was killed in an accident during a race in Taree, Australia.
• Mona de Momma rallied from next-to-last to win the $100,000 Las Flores Handicap by a neck at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., giving jockey Joel Rosario his third win on the card. Mona de Momma ran 6 1/2 furlongs on the synthetic surface in 1:14.50 and paid $22.20, $9.40 and $4.80 at 10-1 odds.
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