Hill’s Season Is Finished After Breaking Left Ankle

The season is over for Grant Hill. The rest of the Detroit Pistons might not be far behind.

Doctors said Wednesday that Hill has a broken left ankle that will need eight weeks to heal. That means the Pistons’ leading scorer will have to sit out the rest of the NBA playoffs.

Detroit trails Miami, 2-0, in their best-of-five series, with Game 3 Saturday in Auburn Hills, Mich.

“Obviously we’re in a hole in the playoffs, and it got a little deeper losing Grant,” Detroit interim Coach George Irvine said.

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Don Casey has been fired as coach of the New Jersey Nets in the first move of an expected housecleaning by the team. General Manager John Nash and President Michael Rowe also are in danger of losing their jobs after the Nets (31-51) missed the playoffs for the second year in a row. . . . The NBA fined Seattle guard Gary Payton $10,000 for failing to make himself available to reporters. The SuperSonics were fined $25,000 for not making Payton available. . . . San Antonio Spur forward Jerome Kersey was ruled out of the remainder of the playoffs because of a dislocated right foot.