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After a promising run of play, Anthony Randolph has been sidelined with an ankle injury and is expected to miss the next couple of months as a result.  Anthony suffered the injury on Friday night against the Sacramento Kings, late in the first quarter. An x-ray taken after the game showed a possible fracture, and an MRI revealed two torn ligaments and a fracture in that left ankle.  "I wouldn’t call it season ending," Coach Don Nelson said. "But it's close."

This comes just as Anthony was playing some of his best ball of the season.  He is the team's leading rebounder, and had started the three previous games.  In those contests he was averaging 14 points and seven rebounds.

The injury also comes as the Warriors' big men were just getting healthy, as centers Andris Biedrins and Ronny Turiaf were returning from injuries of their own to help Anthony carry the load on the inside.  Now with him out, they'll have no time to ease back into their roles.

After helping the team battle through those early injuries, it's especially disappointing for Warriors' fans to have one of their most promising players go down just as the team was hitting its stride. "It's disappointing, because you'd like to see another three months of him playing consistently and see what he could become this year," Nelson said.  Corey Maggette added, "It hurts our team a whole lot, because Randolph was really improving.  He was starting to mature in a lot of ways."