11.   Coach JEFF VAN GUNDY said PATRICK EWING will be on the playoff roster if the Knicks make it that far.

12.   Davis still hopes to be on the active playoff roster, needing improvement in the ankle in the next few days.

13.   Guard Gerald Brown, who finished the regular season on the injured list, was placed on the playoff roster.

14.   Harper will be reactivated again when the playoff roster is announced next week.

15.   Hall, who has a heavy sinker-slider repertoire, would like to work himself back in time to make the playoff roster.

16.   He is expected to be on the playoff roster and could return by the start of the playoffs.

17.   He booted Andy Benes off the playoff roster.

18.   He voiced these sentiments in sort of a goodwill gesture to the Red Sox, who kept him off the playoff roster and then released him in the offseason.

19.   Hill said he actually could have played a month ago, and there was talk in the Magic camp of throwing his name on the playoff roster.

20.   His improved play kept forward George McCloud off the playoff roster, since you can never have too many reliable big men.