He had been listed as day-to-day with the right shoulder injury, and wore a bandage on his shoulder blade. That didn't seem to affect Iverson too much, as he led the 76ers with 35 points as Philadelphia beat Dallas 106-87.

	Iverson

Iverson did not practice Monday after complaining of soreness in his right shoulder. An MRI test revealed a bruise and partial tear of the shoulder.

He originally suffered the injury against the Los Angeles Lakers on Feb. 20. Iverson, the NBA's leading scorer at 30.1 points per game, has struggled since the injury to his shooting shoulder.

"It wasn't hurting during the Lakers game," Iverson said Monday. "It didn't start hurting until after the game. Somebody jumped up while I was still on the ground. When I was getting ready to jump, they were on their way down and hit me in the shoulder. But I didn't think it was anything, because I just caught a sharp pain and it went away.

"I'm not going to use it as an excuse for me missing shots. If that was the case, I shouldn't have been playing. I'm hurting, but that's no excuse for me missing shots."

Against the Lakers, he shot just seven of 25, including 0-for-11 in the second half, and scored 16 points. Iverson scored 26 points on 8-for-26 shooting in an 89-88 loss to the New York Knicks on Sunday.

Since the arrival of Toni Kukoc in a trade on Feb. 16, Iverson has shot 40-for-121 (33 percent), and is averaging 21.6 points in the five games with Kukoc.

Sixers coach Larry Brown refused to be discouraged.

"We're not getting beat badly," Brown said. "We're not getting beat by bad teams. We're playing great teams and playing them very competitively. We've just got to make plays at the end."