11 May 2010

Magic whitewash Hawks, Boomers' Bogut out of World Champs

6:48 pm on 11 May 2010

The Orlando Magic has won its NBA basketball playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks in a 4-0 whitewash.

The Magic sealed the best-of-seven Eastern Conference series with a 98-84 road win over the Hawks.

And the Australian men's basketball team will be without their NBA superstar Andrew Bogut at the FIBA World Championships starting in Turkey in August, after the 213 centimetre tall centre was forced to withdraw from the squad due to injury.

Bogut fell heavily fall while playing for his Milwaukee Bucks against Phoenix last month, seriously injuring a finger, an elbow and an arm.