Mourning tears calf muscle in Heat loss
It ended amid dejection for Dwyane Wade, regret from Pat Riley, but even more significantly, pain for Alonzo Mourning.
Losing 82-73 Wednesday night to the Pistons was agonizing enough for the Heat, especially when it played Detroit on even terms until the midpoint of the fourth quarter.
But the fallout of the defeat told an even more damaging story.
Riley said the seeming innocuous injury Mourning sustained in the second quarter is a torn calf muscle. That not only leaves the balance of the regular season in question for the veteran center, but the April 22 start of the postseason as well.
"His injury is not very good," the Heat coach said. "I don't know the prognosis, but he tore a calf muscle, so it's going to be indefinite." :boohoo:
While Mourning's prognosis is dire -- with center Shaquille O'Neal told the absence would be two to four weeks -- so were the straits the Heat found itself in midway through the final period, when Detroit pulled away behind the contributions of forwards Antonio McDyess and Tayshaun Prince.
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