Hardaway Injures Knee, Will Miss Season

Guard Tim Hardaway of the Golden State Warriors will be sidelined for the season after suffering a torn ligament in his left knee during practice Thursday at the Oakland Coliseum.

Hardaway, 27, an all-star, was carried off the court and the extent of the injury was revealed in a magnetic resonance imaging test. Hardaway will have surgery.

“This is a hard hit to take,” Warrior Coach Don Nelson said.

Hardaway, who averaged 21.5 points and 10.6 assists last season, became the fifth player in NBA history to average 20 points and 10 assists in consecutive seasons, joining Oscar Robertson, Isiah Thomas, Magic Johnson and Kevin Johnson. Hardaway missed 16 games in March and April because of a bruised right knee.

The Warriors led the league in games missed by players because of injuries last season and have already lost 6-foot-5 guard Sarunas Marciulionis for this season. He tore a ligament in his right knee during a pickup game. Chris Webber, the top pick in the 1993 draft, recently had an appendectomy.

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Forward Derrick Coleman, who turned down a reported $69-million offer over eight years from the New Jersey Nets, said he will end contract negotiations with the team and concentrate on basketball until the end of the season.

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Real Madrid, paced by Lithuanian center Arvidas Sabonis, beat Bayer Leverkusen of Germany, 85-75, and earned the right to face the Phoenix Suns in the semifinals of the McDonald’s Open basketball tournament at Munich.

Sabonis led Real Madrid with 21 points, 15 rebounds, three steals and three blocked shots.

The six-team tournament is being played under a combination of NBA and international rules--a 24-second shot clock and four quarters taken from the NBA. The Suns, the NBA representative in the tournament, had a first-round bye.

Tennis

Zina Garrison-Jackson and Judith Wiesner overcame rocky starts and reached the quarterfinals of the Budapest Open women’s indoor tournament in Hungary. Garrison-Jackson beat Velena Brioukhovets, 6-7 (7-3), 6-2, 6-2, and Wiesner beat Petra Langrova, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.

Pete Sampras and Cedric Pioline advanced to the quarterfinals of the Lyon Open in France with straight-set victories. Sampras, the two-time defending champion, defeated Markus Naewie, 6-3, 6-3, and Pioline routed David Rikl, 6-2, 6-1.

Michael Chang survived a second-round scare and outlasted Shuzo Matsuoka, 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 7-5 at the Salem Open in Beijing. Attendance at China’s first ATP tournament continued sparse, with 750 people in the stands at the start of Chang’s match.

Baseball

New York Gov. Mario Cuomo announced a $150-million plan to make Yankee Stadium more appealing and keep the New York Yankees in the Bronx. Under the proposal, the 70-year-old ballpark and its surroundings would be improved and Yankee owner George Steinbrenner would sign a 30-year lease extension, through 2032.

Manager Bobby Cox of the Atlanta Braves underwent replacement surgery on both knees. . . . Outfielder David Justice had bone fragments and a bone spur removed from his right elbow during an arthroscopic procedure earlier this week.

Chicago White Sox right fielder Ellis Burks and catcher Ron Karkovice had arthroscopic surgery on their right knees, Burks to relieve inflammation under his knee cap, Karkovice to remove fragments.

Miscellany

Former UCLA softball player Lisa Fernandez, Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller, former Texas Tech basketball star Cheryl Swoopes and Stanford Olympic swimmer Jenny Thompson are finalists in the Babe Zaharias Female Amateur Athlete Award.

Japan kept alive its hopes for making the World Cup soccer finals by beating Korea, 3-0, in the Asian qualifying tournament at Doha, Qatar. The Japanese victory also increased Iraq’s chance of qualifying for the World Cup if it can beat Iran today.

Names in the News

Golfer Heather Farr’s condition was upgraded from critical to good after seven-hour emergency chest-reconstruction surgery on Wednesdasy at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach because of excessive bleeding following removal of a breast implant. Farr, 28, was found to have breast cancer in July of 1989.

Backup goaltender Andre Racicot of the Montreal Canadiens will be out for at least three weeks because of an injury to his left knee. Racicot was hurt in Montreal’s 5-2 victory over the Dallas Stars on Wednesday.

Leo Gamez of Venezuela won the vacant World Boxing Assn. junior-flyweight title at Tokyo by flooring previously unbeaten Shiro Yahiro of Japan twice and stopping him in the ninth round of a scheduled 12-round bout.