Article: KNICKS LOSE EWING FOR REST OF SEASON DISLOCATED WRIST REQUIRES SURGERY.(Sports)

The surgery took place in the dead of night, the news arrived several hours later with definitive and ruinous finality.

Out for the season.

Goodbye, Patrick Ewing. And goodbye, perhaps, to the New York Knicks' chances of winning a championship with their franchise center.

Ewing underwent emergency surgery yesterday to repair a dislocated bone and several torn ligaments in his right wrist. It was a colossal blow to the team's continual, unfulfilled quest to win an NBA championship.

``It's devastating,'' coach Jeff Van Gundy said.

``I don't think there's anyone out there who can fill the void,'' said general manager Ernie ...

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