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I Wednesday, June 16,1999 Ewing to bt from Knick, FINALS continued from page 6 a L on other people," Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy said. ^ Johnson predicted he'll play at ^ some point in the series. Patrick Ewing will be missing from the Knicks lineup after suffer- ^ ing a torn Achilles' tendon in the ^ Indiana series. Without Johnson, containing Dun- ^ can and Robinson would be even more " difficult for New York than it already P is likely to be. a The thing Duncan and Robinson n; can do is cause so much foul trouble. The depth factor inside is critical for p] us," Van Gundy said Monday in New York before the team flew to Texas. ^ Van Gundy and the Knicks players refuse to say whether they'll de- aj part from common strategy and use ^ single-coverage rather than double- cc teams against Duncan and Robinson. The Spurs and Knicks don't re ally know how they'll stack up against ^ each other with their current lineups because they never faced each oth- w er this lockout-shortened season. 31 The hardest thing with New York is they just formed their team in the nc playoffs," Spurs Coach Gregg Si Popovich said. "They are who they Ai n 2 Be< imiiim Private bedroorr Individual leases Computer lab Alarm c\/ctamc / \IUJ I I I OJ OIL'I I IO Reserved parkir Fully equipped [ Washer & dryei Fitness center / Swimming pool ? missing s' lineup re now. The way they played against ridiana is who this team is." The last meeting between San ntonio and New York was March 1,1998, at Madison Square Garden, he Spurs won that game by 17 oints, largely because of injuries ) Ewing and Chris Dudley. San Antonio has been watching le Knicks' eveiy move on television le past two weeks after defeating ortland in four games and getting nearly 10-day layoff until the fials. "We know the players. We've ayed against them," Robinson said. "Just this combination we don't low." n?i? o c? c willj aicw \xayo agu, tuc op Ul d jpeared thrilled to have made it the finals. On Monday, they were incentrating on the job at hand. The Knicks arrived in San Annio on Monday to find a town virLally plastered with "Go Spurs o" signs and cars tooling around ith Spurs flags flapping from their ttennas. The Knicks may be trying to igire the distractions, but so are the )urs. "I don't want to hear it," San ltonio guard Mario Elie said. !rai pi mmm Jroom / 2 I .. . R is and baths n A ig . citchen r Rec room http SPORTS Astros' mi By Terri Langford Associated Press HOUSTON ? Houston Astros manager Larry Dierker had successful surgery today to remove a tangled mass of blood vessels in his brain that caused him to have a seizure m the dugout on Sunday. Dr. Rob Parrish said the 51/2 -hour ? procedure to remove the mass, called j an arteriovenous malformation, went j smoothly. "It looks as though we've got the ? entire AVM," Parrish said today. "Lat- ? er this week we will do another an- T giogram to make absolutely certain we got it all out." j Parrish said doctors removed a 4- e by-3 centimeter area of malformed ves- j. sels, where Dierker had a blood clot that hemorrhaged. c "Having an AVM that ruptures is ^ certainly life threatening," Parrish said. ^ Parrish said recoveiy time is at least iour weeKS, meaning uierKer will not v rejoin the team until sometime after ^ the All-Star break. Dierker, who is list- a ed in critical condition, will remain in intensive care overnight and will be j( hospitalized 5-10 days. ^ "This is the best we had hoped e for,"Astros owner Drayton McLane said. "This is great progress, and we rejoice ^ in the outcome." s Parrish said the hemorrhage prob- n ably occurred several days before the idN Bath Furnish TNIVERSITV PARTMENTS . 9nn A lovonrlar D / 1 Kjyjy/ /~viv^y\u.nu.V-/l l\U. 1 Cayce, SC 29033 1 1 ://www.capstone-d anager re< "You couldn't eat or si was great to see that h seizure, which occurred in the eighth h nningofa game against the San Diego ti 3adres. h He said the area of malformed vessels was "bigger than a walnut, small- tl :r than a melon ? maybe a lime, or a o1 eally bigjalapeno." li TVo of Dierker's players, Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio, visited Dierk- s< sr in the hospital Monday and said si it; was ui guuu spirits. gi The players, shaken by Dierker's s] ollapse during Sunday's game in the istrodome, at first feared he had a tc irain tumor. ei After Dierker went into violent conulsions, players and coaches restrained tl lim until medical personnel arrived u] nd took him to Methodist Hospital. M The Astros put up Dierker's No. 49 ca irsey in the dugout Monday night in th heir first game without their managr. lij "It was scary to hear that he might in ave a tumor," right fielder Derek Bell s t aid. "You couldn't eat or sleep last C ight. It was great to see that he is OK lis icw ed Apartmt behind Parklam Shopping i I / I EASir of Fall 1 WV-U444 + I iev.com ' Page*V | covering eep last night. It * e is OK." Derek Bell Houston Astros right fielder row we can go out and do wha^he rained us to do the last three years, ave fun and play hard." Two other managers, Joe Torre of re New York Yankees and John Boles f the Florida Marlins, have been sidened because of illness this season. Tbrre missed the start of the seaDn while recovering from prostate lrgery, and Boles missed a total of 13 ames following back surgery and a Drained neck. Dierker's condition added to Housrn's growing list of injured and ill play's and coaches. First base coach Jose Cruz left te team May 10 because of an irreglar heartbeat, and hitting coach Tbm [cCraw left six days later for prostate incer treatment. Cruz is expected back lis month. Outfielder Moises Alou tore a knee jjament when he fell off a treadmill February and will miss most of the iason. And third baseman Ken aminiti has been on the disabled >t since May 22 with a strained calf. ! ] jnts j d Plaza ] Center I I9BS \ I lllillJ