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Monday, December 31st, 2007

Posted by Eric Williams @ 06:41:17 pm

Seattle coach P.J. Carlesimo said rookie guard Kevin Durant and forward Chris Wilcox will not play tonight against Philadelphia.

Durant has a sprained left index finger and shot basket during pregame warmups at KeyArena, but Carlesimo said Durant is still feeling some pain in his hand and decided to give him the night off.

"It’s feeling better," Durant said. "I can’t really catch the ball too well, and that’s a big part of the game. But I’ve been getting treatment on it, so hopefully by next practice or next game I’ll be all right."

The same goes for Wilcox, who also still has pain in his left knee so Carlesimo will give him the night off as well.

“It’s not broken bones, and it’s not tears or things like that,” Carlesimo said. “But it’s a lot of pain. One guy maybe can’t run or jump, and the other guy can’t catch the ball, which is kind of a problem for playing basketball.”

That means Nick Collison will start in place of Wilcox tonight, and Wally Szczerbiak will start in place of Durant.

Luke Ridnour also will miss his fourth straight game, nursing a sore left quad.

You can listen to the full conversation with Carlesimo here.

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Eric Williams took over the Sonics Insider blog in July 2007. Williams joined The News Tribune in 2006 as the Coordinator for Prep Sports. Previously he spent four years as both a news reporter and sports reporter at the Kitsap Sun in Bremerton, Wash. A Tacoma native, Eric graduated from Mount Tahoma High and the University of Puget Sound.

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