Ankle Injury Sidelines Barnes

By Steve Henson

Dec. 14, 2001 12 AM PT

Forward Matt Barnes sprained his left ankle Thursday at practice and will miss Saturday’s home game against UC Irvine.

Barnes, who recently recovered from an earlier ankle injury, stepped on center Dan Gadzuric’s foot. X-rays were negative, but Barnes will be sidelined until early next week and is questionable for the Pacific 10 Conference opener Thursday at Washington.

Barnes is coming off his best game, a 15-point, eight-rebound performance in a victory over Alabama at the Wooden Classic. The senior is averaging 9.5 points and 6.7 rebounds.

Sophomore T.J. Cummings, averaging 12 points and five rebounds as the sixth man, will probably start in Barnes’ place and the playing time of freshmen Andre Patterson and Dijon Thompson should increase.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

Ankle Injury Sidelines Barnes

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