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Mets’ Davis could be out until All-Star break

After Ike Davis collided with David Wright, the Mets’ rising star first baseman said he thought he could play in “a couple of days.”

Days became weeks, and yesterday, in classic Mets fashion, weeks became months.

Davis, suffering from a bone bruise on his left ankle, will be placed back in a boot and shut down from all running until getting re-examined in three weeks. Davis — originally hurt May 10 — will then need time to get back in shape, making him out until at least July, with a return after the All-Star break ends July 15 distinctly possible.

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An evaluation at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan yesterday revealed Davis is healing slower than hoped.

Asked before last night’s 5-1 loss to the Pirates if Davis could be out until the All-Star break, GM Sandy Alderson said, “I’d say I’d hope that’s a little long, but we’d hoped he’d be back on [May] 26th and it didn’t happen.”

Manager Terry Collins said doctors didn’t think an MRI was needed, only prescribing rest.

“The only baseball activities he can do, basically, is play catch, and he’ll be able to swing. But he’s not to do any running whatsoever for the next three weeks,” said Collins. “There’s still a hot spot where the bone bruise is. So we’re going to pretty much shut him down from that type of activity.”

Davis hasn’t played since rolling his left ankle in a 4-3 win at Colorado on May 10 in a seemingly innocuous collision with Wright near the mound while pursuing a popup.

He went on the 15-day disabled list two days later with a left ankle sprain, which has since healed, and a bone bruise that has disturbingly lingered in a 23-year-old player.

Collins said head trainer Ray Ramirez told him he’d “never seen” this long a recovery time for an injury of this type.

“It’s always possible that he’ll heal faster than [three weeks],” Alderson said. “But assuming everything goes well and at that appraisal point, [he] is ready for more activity, it’s still going to be a little bit of time before he comes back.

“If for some reason he feels as if he’s really improving, I’m sure we can have him back up here in two.”

Alderson said Davis, rehabbing at the team’s Port St. Lucie complex, may be brought to New York later this week to change “the scenery a little bit.”

Davis’ absence — along with that of Wright (stress fracture in his lower back) — leaves a gaping hole in the heart of the Mets’ order.

Davis was hitting .302 with seven homers and 25 RBIs. Daniel Murphy has gotten most of the playing time in his stead, but Nick Evans started last night.

brian.lewis@nypost.com