IN BRIEF : Sonic Coach Treated for Exhaustion

Seattle SuperSonics coach Bernie Bickerstaff has been hospitalized in Milwaukee for exhaustion and dehydration, a spokesman for the NBA team said today. Bickerstaff began feeling ill at the Milwaukee airport Thursday after team members arrived there from Detroit, where they had played Wednesday, spokesman Bill Boehlke said. Bickerstaff was in stable condition at Sinai Samaritan Medical Center, Boehlke said. He said he had “no idea” how long Bickerstaff would be hospitalized.

Boehlke said he did not know of Bickerstaff ever having similar problems before. Tonight’s game would be the first Bickerstaff ever missed as a coach, Boehlke said.