Bogut said on Friday he had hoped he just had a charlie horse bruise after he left a 99-85 victory over New Jersey on Wednesday.

Bogut stayed in the game for several minutes after he was kicked, but the pain grew worse and an exam on Thursday revealed the Australian had strained a ligament on the outside of his left calf to go along with a bruise.

"It's very disappointing. I don't want to be hurt," said Bogut, who is averaging 16.1 points and 9.2 rebounds since missing more than half of last season with a stress fracture in his lower back. "It wasn't like I stepped wrong, or I did it running. I got hit."

The injury came after one of Bogut's best performances of the season with 21 points and 11 rebounds against the Nets. He didn't mention the injury after the game and stood throughout his interviews even though he said he knew something was wrong.

"I had shooting pain all the way down my leg. I knew it was bad," the 24-year-old Bogut said. "I was hurting after the game, I could barely walk to my car and could barely walk after the game. I thought maybe I'd wake up and feel better, but I woke up and felt worse."

Milwaukee didn't have injured guard Michael Redd and Bogut for a large portion of last season, and went 10-23 without the pair after Redd was injured on Jan. 24.

"You don't ever want times like this, that's for sure," coach Scott Skiles said. "Last year when it happened we weren't able to hold it together, so hopefully having a deeper team that we have we can weather it a little bit better."

Bogut won't travel on Milwaukee's upcoming four-game road trip that begins on Saturday.