Knicks Coach Larry Brown said that he was still pondering his options for coping with a bladder condition, and that off-season surgery was possible. But Brown said he had no reason to believe he will miss games, as he did last season with Detroit.

"The plan is as soon as the season's over to aggressively figure out how to deal with my situation," Brown said yesterday. "If they can't, I'm O.K. I've learned to deal with this."