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Wizards' Pecherov out six weeks
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More from NBAWashington Wizards forward Oleksiy Pecherov will be sidelined six weeks because of a broken right ankle.
Pecherov was injured last weekend when the team originally said he was expected to miss one or two weeks, but the prognosis was changed Friday.
The 7-footer was a 2006 first-round draft pick who played in his native Ukraine last season. He averaged eight points and five rebounds this preseason.
Sharpton backs off threats of protests at Knicks home games: Al Sharpton and his National Action Network backed off their threats of protests at Madison Square Garden, satisfied with Isiah Thomas' stance on derogatory language toward women.
A taped deposition shown at a sexual harassment trial against Thomas and MSG appeared to show the Knicks coach saying he felt it was OK for a black man, but not a white one, to call a black woman "bitch."
But Thomas has stressed that the tape didn't properly portray his feelings that it was unacceptable for any man to use that language, only that it was worse if it came from a white man because of the racial overtones involved.
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