SEATTLE, March 23 (AP) -- The Seattle SuperSonics said All-Star guard Ray Allen will miss his second consecutive game Friday and will remain out indefinitely with inflammation in his left ankle caused by painful bone spurs.

While Seattle prepared for its home game against Minnesota, Allen was in Los Angeles on Friday being examined by Dr. Richard Ferkel, a noted specialist on ankle injuries. Allen, who is averaging a career-high 26.4 points in 55 games, said before sitting out Wednesday's loss to Washington that he is considering season-ending surgery.

Meeting with Ferkel is further evidence that surgery may be imminent.

Ferkel is the director of the sports medicine fellowship program at the Southern California Orthopedic Institute. He removed bone spurs from the right ankle of Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Simmons in December and then operated on his heel in January. Simmons has been out all season.

The Sonics said they would wait until after Ferkel's assessment before updating Allen's availability status from day-to-day. Damien Wilkins has been starting in Allen's place.

Allen has been bothered by the ankle since early February, but had missed just one game in the past two months, when he sat out against the Los Angeles Clippers on March 1 and finally disclosed the injury.

Wednesday, Allen sought a second opinion from a specialist at Duke University, referred to him by his agent. Allen had X-rays sent to North Carolina. But a team spokesman said that instead of visiting a doctor there, Allen made the more efficient trip down to the West Coast to Ferkel, who is also a clinical instructor of orthopedic surgery at UCLA.

Allen also had an MRI exam on his right knee Tuesday, after feeling discomfort for the past two weeks. He believes that pain was from overcompensating for the pain in his ankle.

Allen was told that structurally, he can't do any more damage to his ankle, and it's a matter of dealing with the pain. But the discomfort in his knee was the catalyst for further opinion.

Allen knows surgery to remove the spurs is the likely solution.

"I think that's the next issue, just talking about that, putting myself in that situation where I have surgery early. Possibly,'' Allen said Wednesday.

While Allen has played with pain, the Sonics have struggled. A recent five-game losing streak damaged any chance Seattle had of making a late rally for the eighth playoff spot in the Western Conference. The Sonics entered Friday 26-41 - the second-worst record in the Western Conference - and 5+ games behind the Los Angeles Clippers for eighth place.

Allen missed nine games in December with a bone contusion in his right foot. Seattle was without either Allen or forward Rashard Lewis (tendon sheath injury in his hand) between early December and the middle of February.