Lonny Baxter's plans for a playing career in Italy could be over after the forward was sentenced to two months in jail for firearms offences.

"We haven't reached a decision on Baxter but to tell the truth we weren't expecting there to be such a serious sentence," Montepaschi Siena general manager Ferdinando Minucci told The Associated Press on Thursday. "We will be speaking with him to reach a solution."

Baxter ? who signed for the Italian team from the Charlotte Bobcats for this season ? was sentenced to two months in jail Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges of carrying a gun and firing it into the air a few blocks from the White House.

The former Toronto Raptors forward was originally scheduled to join Siena for training camp on Monday ahead of the start of the Italian league season on Oct. 8. His prison sentence will delay his arrival.

Dwyane Wade rose to acknowledge the crowd chanting his name with 4 minutes left, the only time he got off the bench as the United States routed Senegal 103-58 Thursday to advance to the second round of the world championships.

Wade had the night off, after helping the U.S. rally a day earlier in the win against Italy.
 
The NBA finals MVP for the Heat stood and waved, drawing a loud roar.

"That was a first for me," Wade said. "It was a great experience, though. We play our heart out here to entertain. We gained some fans on this trip."

Chris Bosh scored 20 points and LeBron James added 17 in limited duty for the U.S. team, which remained unbeaten.

The Group D champions depart Friday morning for Saitama, where they will face Australia on Sunday in the round of 16.

Former NBA player Lonny Baxter will remain in the District of Columbia jail on felony gun charge at least until next Wednesday, in part because of a request from his attorneys.

Baxter's lawyers asked a D.C. Superior Court judge Friday to delay a bond hearing so they could challenge aspects of the city's new crime emergency legislation that presumes anyone charged with carrying a pistol without a license to be dangerous.

Richard Finci argued that Baxter's classification as a dangerous person, which can be used to deny him bail, violates his constitutional rights.

"He should not be presumed to be a dangerous person just because he had a gun in his possession," Finci said. "To extend the law to the mere possession of a firearm, without a violent crime, goes too far," he said following the hearing.

T.J. Ford, new point guard for the Toronto Raptors, assumed a leadership role on the team by calling Pape Sow in the hospital in Las Vegas after Sow had surgery on a fractured vertebrae simply to let him know that he was very empathetic of the situation.

"He gave me good advice," Sow said last weekend. "He told me, 'Pape, don't worry about it, just take your time and get healthy first. You can't worry about getting back quick, those kind of injuries are serious injuries.'

"It took him a while to decide when he was going to get back. He wanted to make 100 per cent sure that when he got to the floor, he could go 100 per cent. He didn't want to go and think about it.

"Those kinds of things mean a lot to me, make me think about it, makes me focus on my health and not so much about basketball."

Charlotte Bobcats player Lonny Baxter was arrested early Wednesday after reports of shots fired from a vehicle about two blocks from the White House, a Secret Service spokesman said.

Baxter, 27, was taken into custody around 2:30 a.m. after a witness flagged down a Secret Service officer and reported shots fired from a white sport-utility vehicle, said Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahren. Officers stopped the vehicle near the intersection of 17th and I streets in Northwest Washington.

"There were spent shell casings in plane view inside the vehicle," Zahren said. Officers also recovered a handgun.

Both Baxter and another man in the vehicle, 35-year-old Irvin Martin, were charged with carrying a pistol without a license and other firearms charges.

Both men were being held by District of Columbia police.

The Kings signed center Loren Woods on Tuesday.

Woods, a five-year veteran, spent the last two seasons with the Raptors. He also has played for the Heat and Timberwolves, who drafted him in 2001. He averaged 2.3 points and 4.1 rebounds last season.

Three days and three nights lying immobile in a Las Vegas hospital with a broken vertebra will fill a man's mind with everything from anxiety to fear to questions of whether he'll be able to walk again, let alone dunk a basketball, but it did not hurt the spirits of Raptors forward Pape Sow.

"At that time I was kind of nervous because I didn't know what was going on," Sow said. "It's kind of hard, three days just laying there while they tried to figure out what they were going to do, it kind of scared me a little.

"But, you know, a couple of doctors came to me and told me it wasn't a big deal, they just were going to try to make sure they do the right thing. That's why I was confident."

Former Toronto Raptors and Philadelphia 76ers forward Michael Bradley has signed with Bruesa of the Spanish League according to Marca, a popular Spanish website.

Doug Smith of the Toronto Star is stating that Darrick Martin will be re-signed by the Raptors a week or so before training camp.

Martin took on a player/assistant coach role with the team last year and served as a mentor to some of the team's younger players.

The Clippers added some frontcourt depth on Tuesday, signing free agent forward Aaron Williams.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The 6-9, 235-pound Williams, 34, averaged 4.6 points and 3.8 rebounds in 48 games last season with the Raptors and Hornets.