NBA Wire Notes | Kings’ Bibby to miss 6 weeks
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kings guard Mike Bibby will miss at least the first six weeks of the regular season after tearing a ligament in his left thumb.
Bibby was injured during practice Thursday, and an MRI revealed the tear Friday. The injury could sideline the point guard for two months or longer, the team said.
The Kings had already lost rookie center Spencer Hawes, a former Washington Husky, to a knee injury during training camp, and forward Ron Artest is suspended for the first seven games of the regular season after pleading no contest to a charge related to domestic violence.
Thomas, Stringer have words
NEW YORK - Rutgers women’s coach C. Vivian Stringer blasted Knicks coach Isiah Thomas for the comments he made regarding the use of the word “bitch” toward a woman during his video deposition in the Anucha Browne Sanders sexual harassment trial.
“I thought he lost his mind, honestly,” Stringer told ESPN.com. “You want to know what I really felt? It was disgusting.”
Thomas, in the deposition, suggested that he would be more offended if a white man used the word for a black woman than if a black man used the same word toward a black woman.
He later clarified his statement by saying it was offensive for anyone to use that word toward a woman. On Friday he reacted to Stringer, saying, “Don’t speak from ignorance, get the facts about what I said and not the portion that was taken out of context.”
Notes
• Jason Kidd made his preseason debut for New Jersey, finishing with 10 points, six rebounds and four assists in 30 minutes in the Nets’ 102-86 victory over the Knicks. He had sat out the first five exhibitions to rest a strained back.
• Kevin Garnett had 21 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists, and former Sonic Ray Allen had 20 points in Boston’s 114-89 victory over Cleveland.
• Former Gonzaga standout Ronny Turiaf had 18 points and eight rebounds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers past Sacramento 101-97 in Las Vegas. Kobe Bryant did not make the trip because of a sprained right wrist.
• Former NBA player Eddie Griffin had more than three times the legal alcohol limit in his system when he crashed his sport-utility vehicle into a moving train and died this summer in Houston, according to an autopsy report.