The news on the medical front for the Magic is not encouraging.

C Kelvin Cato is nursing a bruised left shoulder -- his third significant injury this season.

The Magic also have pushed back G Keyon Dooling's return from a right foot injury.

Cato did not dress out Friday night. Coach Brian Hill said Cato was injured during Wednesday night's game against the New York Knicks. Magnetic-resonance imaging results were negative.

Cato has missed nine games because of injury. He sat out most of the preseason while recovering from left shoulder surgery in the offseason, then missed seven games because of a sprained right ankle.

Dooling has missed the past 16 games after sustaining a small tear in the tissue on the bottom of his foot. He missed five to begin the season.

The Magic had expected Dooling to practice full-bore next week and perhaps play. Now it appears he won't be ready until the club's West Coast trip Jan. 10-15.