nba.1426vpoznanovic,
Camby: A Raptor spreads his wings
TORONTO (Nov 11, 1996 - 17:24 EST) -- The signs of brilliance are
becoming more frequent -- the blocked shot at one end of the court,
the dunk at the other.
There is a new edge to his game, an edge that comes from confidence as
Marcus Camby starts to exert his presence on the Toronto Raptors.
While still being brought along slowly -- he averaged 21 minutes a
game in Toronto's first four games -- the prized rookie is forcing
himself into the action more and more.
"I'm just feeling more comfortable as I get more playing time and get
into the games," said Camby, the 6-foot-11 forward drafted second
overall by Toronto last June. "I think the guys can see I'm making
some strong strides right now."
Coach Darrell Walker is one of the believers.
"His confidence is growing every day," he said. "I saw it in training
camp before he twisted his ankle; the greatness was there. After he
got hurt, he was a little tentative but now that's disappearing."
One play in an upset of the Los Angeles Lakers spoke volumes about
Camby's emergence.
Taking the ball just off the side of the foul line, he saw Shaquille
O'Neal slide over to block the lane. Undaunted, he started to drive,
got fouled hard and made both free throws. Other rookies, and some
veterans, might have looked to pass, or at least tried to avoid the
collision with O'Neal.
"He's going to be a great one," Walker said. "That play shows you what
kind of kid he is. He doesn't have any fear."
One thing that's impressed the Raptors is Camby's willingness to
accept his role. On a team with Damon Stoudamire, Walt Williams, Doug
Christie and Hubert Davis, the rookie doesn't have to score. He just
has to play his game.
"He's running, filling the lanes, blocking shots, playing defense,"
Walker said. "The best thing is, he's been making good basketball
plays."
Camby's biggest attribute his athleticism. While he could stand
another 15 or 20 pounds of muscle on his slight 220-pound frame, he
runs the floor like a small forward and can block shots despite being
banged around under the rim.
He averaged just 7.8 points a game through Toronto's first four games
but is blocking more than two shots a game and hauling in about four
rebounds.
"I don't have to score 20 points a night," said last season's NCAA
player of the year from Massachusetts. "Everyone knows Damon's the
leader on this team. I can go grab rebounds, block some shots and give
the team some energy off the bench. I just want to fit in and fill my
role."
He comes to the league carrying a lot of expectations. Sports
Illustrated picked him as its preseason favorite for rookie of the
year.
"When I was in college, no one predicted I'd be player of the year and
I won that," Camby said. "I hope being picked to win isn't some kind
of a jinx."
nba.1427vpoznanovic,
Unsafe floor forces Spurs-Jazz postponement
SALT LAKE CITY (Nov 11, 1996 - 23:54 EST) -- A damaged floor at the
Delta Center was deemed unsafe and forced the postponement of Monday
night's NBA game between the San Antonio Spurs and Utah Jazz.
"There is no way the game can be played tonight," NBA referee Jess
Kersey said while workers attempted to repair the floor. "We feel it
is necessary to cancel the game for the safety of the players."
Kersey announced the postponement approximately 50 minutes after the
scheduled tipoff and after conferring with both head coaches and the
NBA.
"The floor seems to get worse as the night progresses," Kersey said.
"There are just too many gaps that are raised too high. If a player
would go down, he could cut a leg and that would be unfortunate."
But Jazz coach Jerry Sloan, a former NBA player, said he played on
worse surfaces.
"Both (Spurs head coach) Bob Hill and I agreed that we've played on
worse floors before, but we're not talking about forty years ago,"
Sloan said. "We're talking about today, which is a much different game
with a lot more at stake for each player."
The crowd booed when it was announced the game would be postponed and
rescheduled for Dec. 15.
"It's unsettling for the fans who made the commitment to come tonight,
but I don't think anybody wants to see anybody get hurt," said David
Allred, vice president of public relations for the Jazz.
Edges of the sectioned hardwood floor were sticking up as high as
one-eighth of an inch in more than 30 places, according to Jazz
spokesman Nathan Kirkham.
Jazz officials blamed the cause of the problem as a combination of
weakened plastic support rods and moisture from the ice rink under the
floor.
The problems were first noticed by maintenance personnel Monday
morning, and workers sanded and treated the affected areas with
varnish as the scheduled gametime approached.
The new floor was installed last summer at a cost of $70,000 when the
Jazz changed their logo. Team officials said a decision on whether the
floor can be repaired or must be replaced in the next two days will be
made after the manufacturer, Horner Floors, has a chance to inspect
its condition.
The Jazz are scheduled to host the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday
night. A team official said the building's previous floor could be
re-installed if the new floor is unfixable.
nba.1428vpoznanovic,
Bullets forward Howard charged with DWI
WASHINGTON (Nov 11, 1996 - 18:18 EST) -- Juwan Howard was arrested
early Monday, charged with drunken driving after his 1995 Mercedes was
spotted speeding down a Washington street.
The Washington Bullets forward had just left a nightclub when the
arrest was made at 3:45 a.m., said District of Columbia police
spokesman Sgt. Joe Gentile. Howard was released on his own
recognizance and a Dec. 6 court date was set.
"This is truly a big embarrassment for me personally and for my family
and also for the Bullets organization," Howard said after practice
Monday at Bowie State University.
Howard said he understood that "we all have to follow rules and
regulations," adding that he would continue to be himself and "let
everyone know that I'm not perfect."
Bullets general manager Wes Unseld said Howard was "deeply affected
and hurt" by the incident.
"I think we will accept Juwan's statement that he made a mistake and
let him go on," Unseld said.
Howard, known for his charitable work around the Washington area in
his two years with the Bullets, had signed a seven-year, $100 million
dollar contract with the Miami Heat in July.
That deal, which was subsequently voided by the league because it
exceeded Miami's salary cap, would have made him one of highest paid
athletes in sports history.
Given a second chance, Bullets owner Abe Pollin shelled out roughly
the same amount Miami had offered.
Re-signed by the Bullets, Howard said he had not wanted to leave
Washington and called his return "truly a blessing."
This season, he is averaging 17.4 points and 10 rebounds a game. Last
year, he averaged 22.1 points and 8.1 rebounds a game and was named to
the All-Star team.
nba.1429junior,
-> #1396, mboban> Šta kažu ostali?
Meni ovako savršeno odgovara, jer su poruke savršeno pregledne.
Mnogo preglednije nego da skidam fajl pa da ga onda pregledam.
Uz to, u SORu imam mogućnost i da sačuvam poruke koje me zanimaju,
dok u onom slučaj to ne bih mogao.
PS. Znam šta ti želiš .. ti hoćeš izveštaje od NBA-dailya, koji su
veoma sažeti, kratki i pregledni. Ako uspem da se ponovo pretplatim
na njega (neće da mi prihvate :( ), redovno ću ih slati u konfu.
nba.1430dizel,
-> #1409, vpoznanovic** DENVER (104) AT TORONTO (93)
Da li iko zna šta je sa Rastkom Cvetkovićem? :)
nba.1431superhik,
-> #1389, vpoznanovic=:> PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST
A gde je Đorđević, je l' igra on uopšte...?
nba.1432stukelj,
Neka mi neko napise sve sto zna o ekipi "Golden State Warriors"!!!!
Mislim na njihov ovogodisnji sastav!!!
nba.1433vitez.koja,
-> #1430, dizel#=> Da li iko zna šta je sa Rastkom Cvetkovićem? :)
Šutnuli ga iz Denvera pred početak sezone, valjda je bio opet
povređen...
sk
nba.1434vitez.koja,
Mogu samo da kazem, da ko nije gledao obavezno gleda reprizu... Dalje
ne citajte ako necete sebi da pokvarite uzivanje!!!
Hjuston protiv Lejkersa
100:100 na kraju, sa trojkom Barklija 5 sec pre kraja, a pre toga jos
jedna trojka na manje od minut do kraja (imali su -9 na pocetku 4/4)
Ludilo u dvorani, Lejkersi promasuju zadnji napad...
Produzeci!
111:108 i onda trojka Sebaljosa 45 sec pre kraja
113:111 Hakim sa 5m 30 sec pre kraja (razigrao se u produzetku, kad je
izasao Shaq, inace je u prvom poluvremenu igrao 5 min i dobio
3 licne)
113:113 Kembel sa slobodnih bacanja, 8 sec do kraja
113:113 Bez suta Mareja pre kraja (Barkli zasrao stvar)
2. produzetak!
113:118 Kucanje Sebaljosa i trojka Van Eksela, 3 min do kraja
Serija promasaja...
Sudije sviraju licne Lejkersima, problematicno... Ulazi
Trevis Najt (beli centar, ruki) za Lejkerse.
3 sec Hakimu na 2:55 do kraja
113:121 Van Eksel jos jedna trojka! na 2:02. Hjuston bez poena u 2.
produzetku.
115:121 Polaganje Hakima pored Najta, 1:45
Prodor Eksela, iz ocaja lopta prema Najtu, koji pravi korake,
ali, svira se faul Hjustonu
115:122 Najt promasuje ceo kos sa bacanja, ali daje drugi (primetan
uticaj Shaqa ;), 1:33
Olajdzuvon promasuje preko Kembela, ali ipak lopta za
Hjuston. Mdjt. grese i Lejkersi na 1:20 imaju loptu. Ne ide
se na faul! Trevis Najt ubacuje jedan tip-in (prvi pogodak u
karijeri!) - 115:124, sve je gotovo, 59.9 do kraja...
Sutiraju trojke Barkli, Balard... Nista, mnogo su stari za
dva produzetka, Barkli se umorio u 3/4, u produzecima nije
imao snage. Jebiga tri cetvrtine je igrao sam...
115:126 Van Eksel, pustili ga
Shaq u prvoj cetvrtini dao 20 poena (imao je 12/14 za svoju ekipu u
jednom trenutku). Hakimu sviraju faul i kad popreko pogleda nekog.
Bekovi Lejkersa se ispromasivali. Edi Dzons dobar jedno vreme, ali
napravio 6. licnu na oko 6 min do kraja. Krenulo malo Van Exela u 4/4,
takoda je sebicno igrao do kraja regularnog dela. Met Balard ulazi za
Hjuston i postize 7 poena za dva minuta, posle se i on primio i kako
dobije loptu sutne trojku... Dreksler ocajan, valjda samo 1 poen uz
ocajan sut i puno gresaka... Tajmauti posle svakog napada pocevsi od
2 min do kraja regularnog dela... U 2. produzetku Van Exel opet usao
u seriju (prosralo ga) i to je to...
Sudjenje ocajno i na stetu Hjustona
sk
nba.1435vpoznanovic,
CHARLOTTE (97) AT MIAMI (105)
CHARLOTTE
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MASON F 41 2-9 3-5 3 6 9 4 2 0 1 7
GEIGER F 20 1-2 0-0 2 2 4 1 2 0 3 2
DIVAC C 38 11-17 0-0 2 11 13 2 5 2 4 22
GOLDWIRE G 31 3-5 1-2 0 3 3 4 2 0 3 10
RICE G 40 9-18 4-5 1 1 2 3 3 0 2 26
ZIDEK 4 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1
CURRY 27 4-7 3-3 0 3 3 3 2 1 2 13
SMITH 17 4-7 2-2 0 0 0 1 1 3 2 10
BURRELL 15 1-3 1-2 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 4
ROSE 7 1-1 0-0 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 2
BOGUES DNP - SORE LEFT KNEE
DELK DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 36-69 15-21 9 27 36 21 23 6 20 97
(.522) (.714) TEAM REBS: 10 TOTAL TO: 23(35 PTS)
MIAMI
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
THOMAS F 22 3-7 6-7 4 3 7 0 2 0 2 12
MAJERLE F 48 8-15 1-1 3 2 5 1 3 2 2 20
MOURNING C 34 6-16 2-2 2 7 9 2 2 1 3 14
DANILOVIC G 29 6-9 4-5 0 3 3 2 4 1 0 17
HARDAWAY G 39 9-20 1-1 3 1 4 12 3 3 1 22
ASKINS 14 1-2 1-1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 3
BROWN 29 3-10 0-0 4 2 6 0 4 1 1 6
AUSTIN 12 3-5 1-1 0 1 1 0 4 0 4 7
GRANT 13 2-5 0-0 0 1 1 5 2 1 1 4
LENARD DNP - COACH'S DECISION
PINCKNEY DNP - COACH'S DECISION
STRICKLAND DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 41-89 16-18 17 20 37 22 24 10 14 105
(.461) (.889) TEAM REBS: 6 TOTAL TO: 14(14 PTS)
CHARLOTTE 22 20 27 28 - 97
MIAMI 22 29 26 28 - 105
BLOCKED SHOTS: CHARLOTTE - DIVAC 2, GEIGER, MASON, SMITH. MIAMI - BROWN
4, MOURNING 3, AUSTIN.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: CHARLOTTE 10-18 (.556), GEIGER 0-1, GOLDWIRE 3-4, RICE
4-7, CURRY 2-4, SMITH 0-1, BURRELL 1-1. MIAMI 7-20 (.350), MAJERLE 3-8,
DANILOVIC 1-3, HARDAWAY 3-7, ASKINS 0-1, GRANT 0-1.
TECHNICALS: MIAMI - ILLEGAL DEFENSE.
OFFICIALS: STEVE JAVIE, GARY BENSON, DAVID JONES.
A - 14,393. T - 2:06.
CHARLOTTE (97) AT MIAMI (105)
Tim Hardaway had 22 points and 11 assists as the Miami Heat
defeated the Charlotte Hornets, 105-97, for their third straight
victory.
Dan Majerle added 20 points and former Hornet Alonzo Mourning
contributed 14 points and nine rebounds as Miami defeated
Charlotte for the third time in four meetings.
"It was a tough, physical game, we had some runs but they came
back," Miami coach Pat Riley said. "He's (Hardaway) a winner,
his assist-to-turnover ratio (52-to-7) is mind boggling. We're
getting good balance."
Glen Rice scored 26 points and Vlade Divac added 22 points and
13 rebounds for the Hornets, who fell to 1-2 on the road.
Charlotte played without point guard Muggsy Bogues, who sat out
with a sore left knee.
Hardaway had nine points as the Heat ended the first quarter
with an 11-0 run to tie it, 22-22. Majerle's three-pointer gave
the Heat the lead for good, 31-28, with 9:09 left in the second.
Rice hit a three-pointer just over a minute later, but
Mourning's hook shot completed a 13-3 spurt that gave Miami a
46-34 lead with 3:42 left in the second.
"We played them tough except for the second quarter," said
Charlotte coach Dave Cowens. "All off a sudden we stopped
sharing the ball. Sixty points in the paint, 17 offensive
rebounds, that hurt us. Big game from Vlade, that was good to
see, but we milked that until it was dry."
"I took it upon myself to play good defense, hit a couple of
shots and make some threes," Hardaway said. "I knew Zo
(Mourning) was under the weather so I had to pick him up. We
almost let it get away. Maybe we were looking too much to
tomorrow."
Rice's jumper closed a 15-5 burst that pulled Charlotte within,
85-84, with 6:47 to go in the fourth. Hardaway made a layup and
a free throw as Miami answered with a 9-2 spurt to take a 90-84
lead with 5:17 remaining.
"We have to a better job keeping a team down when we have them
down," Majerle said.
The Hornets managed to close within 94-90 on Rice's jumper with
3:02 left but Kurt Thomas converted a three-point play closing
Miami's 6-0 spurt for a 100-90 lead with 2:17 remaining.
nba.1436vpoznanovic,
CLEVELAND (83) AT ATLANTA (87)
CLEVELAND
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MILLS F 37 4-13 4-6 1 4 5 1 1 0 2 13
HILL F 43 6-11 2-4 7 6 13 2 5 1 2 14
WEST C 19 1-2 2-3 1 2 3 0 2 0 2 4
PHILLS G 41 2-11 1-2 2 5 7 3 4 1 4 6
BRANDON G 37 9-14 4-4 0 5 5 7 1 3 3 25
SURA 20 4-7 0-1 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 9
FERRY 28 3-8 0-0 0 2 2 1 3 0 2 8
POTAPENKO 4 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0
LANG 8 1-1 1-1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 3
MARSHALL 3 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
GEARY DNP - COACH'S DECISION
THOMAS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 30-68 15-23 13 25 38 16 22 6 18 83
(.441) (.652) TEAM REBS: 7 TOTAL TO: 18(19 PTS)
ATLANTA
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
CORBIN F 39 5-10 2-2 3 3 6 3 4 1 3 13
LAETTNER F 41 4-11 6-7 2 4 6 2 6 0 2 14
MUTOMBO C 40 2-10 1-2 3 6 9 2 3 0 3 5
BOYCE G 16 1-5 0-0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2
BLAYLOCK G 44 15-26 3-4 3 5 8 8 3 2 3 39
BARRY 27 3-8 0-0 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 6
BURTON 15 1-3 2-2 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 4
RECASNER 10 1-2 2-2 1 2 3 0 1 0 0 4
NEWBILL 8 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0
LAUDERDALE DNP - SUBLEXED PATELLA
SMITH DNP - SPRAINED RIGHT ANKLE
TOTALS 240 32-76 16-19 12 22 34 22 22 5 13 87
(.421) (.842) TEAM REBS: 14 TOTAL TO: 14(19 PTS)
CLEVELAND 14 21 26 22 - 83
ATLANTA 19 17 21 30 - 87
BLOCKED SHOTS: CLEVELAND - WEST 2, LANG 2, BRANDON. ATLANTA - LAETTNER
3, MUTOMBO 2.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: CLEVELAND 8-23 (.348), MILLS 1-5, HILL 0-1, PHILLS 1-5,
BRANDON 3-5, SURA 1-2, FERRY 2-5. ATLANTA 7-22 (.318), CORBIN 1-1, BOYCE
0-2, BLAYLOCK 6-14, BARRY 0-3, BURTON 0-1, RECASNER 0-1.
TECHNICALS: NONE.
OFFICIALS: HUGH EVANS, RON OLESIAK, TOMMIE WOOD.
A - 7,385. T - 2:23.
CLEVELAND (83) AT ATLANTA (87)
Mookie Blaylock scored a career-high 39 points, including six
three-pointers, and hit an 18-foot jumper with four seconds
remaining to give the Atlanta Hawks an 87-83 victory over the
Cleveland Cavaliers.
Blaylock, who scored 12 points in the fourth quarter, made a
career-high 15 field goals, grabbed eight rebounds and handed
out eight assists. He also attempted a career-high 26 shots.
"It feels good. You know when you shoot it's going to go in for
you," Blaylock said. "Career highs aren't as important as the
win. I felt every shot I put up was going to go in. I was just
able to pull the game out at the end. I don't care about how
many points I got, it's a good win for us and that's what I'm
glad about."
Bobby Sura's layup with 1:11 left in the fourth quarter pulled
the Cavaliers within 81-80, but Blaylock hit an off-balance
20-foot jumper with the shot clock winding down to make it 83-80
with 24 seconds to go.
Bobby Phills nailed a three-pointer from the right corner with
12 seconds to play, tying it, 83-83. Blaylock dribbled the
length of the court and made a running 18-foot jumper to put
Atlanta ahead, 85-83.
"They played hard. I know how Lenny is, he expects his players
to play hard," Brandon said, referring to Hawks coach Lenny
Wilkens. "It was a close game tonight and they won. They
collectively won as a team, it was a team effort for them."
Brandon was asked if it was frustrating to guard a red-hot
Blaylock.
"It's not frustrating because I would've done the same things.
You have to take the bitter with the sweet. That's how it is
sometimes. I'll keep my head up," he said. "I wish I was a
little bit taller. He hit a good shot, I was right there and he
hit a great shot."
Phills' three-pointer with one second left fell short and
Eldridge Recasner sank two free throws to complete the scoring.
"Ths shot looked good, but it hit the front," Phills said of his
missed three-pointer. "It was one of those things that if it
had gone in, it would've been a great shot, but I missed it."
Terrell Brandon scored 25 points and Tyrone Hill added 14 points
and 13 rebounds for Cleveland, which dropped to 4-2.
Christian Laettner had 14 points and Tyrone Corbin 13 for the
Hawks, who have won four of their last five games. Atlanta also
has won four of the last five meetings with Cleveland.
"It's like a road game because we go from here straight to the
airport," Wilkens said. "Eleven out of 14 on the road, but
we're mentally prepared for it. It's a tough first month. You
won't believe this, but we make Mookie practice runners. ... We
have him work on pull-ups and runners."
The Hawks were without starting shooting guard Steve Smith, who
is nursing a sprained right ankle. Atlanta dressed just nine
players due to injuries to Ken Norman, Alan Henderson, Smith and
Priest Lauderdale.
"The troops are running low and I'm not exactly playing great,"
Laettner said. "Mookie had a great game, that's what we needed.
We've got a good bunch of guys and everyone's pulling for one
another. We have good guys on the bench that can pick us up."
The Cavs held a 74-70 lead with 6:10 remaining but Blaylock hit
a layup and Corbin's runner in the lane with 4:59 to play tied
it, 74-74. Blaylock and Laettner each hit one of two free
throws to give the Hawks the lead for good, 76-74, with 3:21
left.
A three-pointer by Blaylock and a 20-foot jumper by Jon Barry
sandwiched around a Tyrone Hill dunk put the Hawks up 81-76 with
1:56 remaining. A pair of foul shots by Brandon and a layup by
Sura closed Cleveland within 81-80 with 71 seconds to go.
Cleveland was held scoreless for a span of more than six minutes
bridging the first and second quarters before Phills hit a free
throw.
nba.1437vpoznanovic,
DETROIT (92) AT WASHINGTON (79)
DETROIT
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
THORPE F 26 2-7 1-1 2 1 3 1 3 0 3 5
LONG F 43 4-11 3-4 8 3 11 2 1 2 1 12
MILLS C 34 7-14 0-0 0 5 5 3 2 0 1 19
HILL G 35 7-15 9-11 0 9 9 7 3 0 3 24
DUMARS G 37 4-10 1-2 0 8 8 4 2 3 0 13
HUNTER 29 6-10 0-0 1 0 1 0 4 2 1 12
AUGMON 14 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 2
REID 5 1-1 0-0 0 2 2 0 3 0 4 2
SMITH 17 1-5 0-0 0 2 2 2 1 1 1 3
CURRY DNP - COACH'S DECISION
MAHORN DNP - COACH'S DECISION
RATLIFF DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 33-75 14-18 11 31 42 19 20 8 15 92
(.440) (.778) TEAM REBS: 7 TOTAL TO: 16(16 PTS)
WASHINGTON
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
HOWARD F 43 6-12 3-4 3 8 11 4 2 1 3 15
WEBBER F 42 8-19 1-4 3 4 7 4 0 1 1 19
MURESAN C 24 1-7 2-3 0 3 3 0 4 0 3 4
CHEANEY G 25 2-9 0-0 2 3 5 1 4 0 3 5
STRICKLAND G 32 3-7 2-2 0 4 4 6 0 1 3 8
GRANT 19 2-4 0-0 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 4
WHITNEY 16 1-6 4-4 2 1 3 2 2 0 1 7
MURRAY 16 2-7 0-0 1 3 4 0 1 0 0 4
JACKSON 23 5-8 0-0 0 2 2 1 4 0 1 13
AMAYA DNP - COACH'S DECISION
FISH DNP - COACH'S DECISION
WALLACE DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 30-79 12-17 13 28 41 19 18 3 15 79
(.380) (.706) TEAM REBS: 10 TOTAL TO: 15(24 PTS)
DETROIT 28 20 25 19 - 92
WASHINGTON 15 15 23 26 - 79
BLOCKED SHOTS: DETROIT - HILL 2. WASHINGTON - MURESAN.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: DETROIT 12-24 (.500), LONG 1-2, MILLS 5-10, HILL 1-1,
DUMARS 4-6, HUNTER 0-3, SMITH 1-2. WASHINGTON 7-18 (.389), WEBBER 2-3,
CHEANEY 1-2, STRICKLAND 0-1, WHITNEY 1-5, MURRAY 0-3, JACKSON 3-4.
TECHNICALS: NONE.
OFFICIALS: DICK BAVETTA, TOMMY NUNEZ, WOODY MAYFIELD.
A - 16,111. T - 1:56.
DETROIT (92) AT WASHINGTON (79)
Grant Hill had 24 points, nine rebounds and seven assists and
Terry Mills scored 10 of his 19 on three-pointers to propel the
Detroit Pistons to a 92-79 victory over the Washington Bullets.
Joe Dumars added 13 points for Detroit (5-1), which bounced back
from its first loss of the season, a 98-80 defeat to Chicago
Friday. Dumars has scored 53 points over the last three games
for the Pistons, who improved to 3-1 on the road. They did not
post their third road victory last season until December 19th.
Chris Webber had 19 points and seven rebounds for Washington
(2-4), which has lost three straight and fell to 1-3 at home.
The Bullets struggled with their shooting all night, hitting
only 26 percent from the field in the first half and 44 percent
overall.
Washington also had trouble with its transition game, converting
only two points off the fast break in the first half.
"The first half of the game could not have been any worse for
this team," said Bullets coach Jim Lynam. "The shots were not
good. We looked very frustrated. We would miss a shot and five
guys would try to rebound."
Detroit led by as many as 26 in the second quarter on a Mills'
three-pointer with 3:12 to go. The Bullets managed just three
points in the final 4:10 of the first quarter and scored 15 in
each of the first two periods to establish a season low. They
trailed 48-30 at the half.
"Detroit changed their starting lineup when the game began,"
said Lynam. "It was difficult to adjust. Hill is a great
penetrator."
Terry Murray's jumper brought Washington within 60-46 with 5:47
remaining in the third, but that was the closest the Bullets got
in the quarter as the Pistons built a 73-53 advantage after
three.
Bullets forward Juwan Howard, who was arrested on a drunk
driving charge early Monday morning in Washington, D.C.,
scored 15 points and grabbed 11 rebounds.
"This seems like our training camp," said Howard. "There's
a lot of talent here. We've got to step up and play."
The loss spoiled the return of Washington center Gheorghe
Muresan, who had four points and three rebounds in 24 minutes.
The 7-foot-7 center was activated from the injured list Monday
and made his season debut. Muresan strained his right hip flexor
over the summer and missed all of training camp before being
placed on the injured list to start the season.
"This was the big fellow's first camp," Webber said of Muresan.
"He is gonna get into it."
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GOLDEN STATE (102) AT SEATTLE (121)
GOLDEN STATE
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MULLIN F 35 9-15 1-1 1 4 5 4 4 0 7 21
SMITH F 36 4-12 2-3 3 2 5 1 2 1 3 10
FULLER C 29 5-9 0-0 0 7 7 3 1 0 3 10
PRICE G 30 6-11 0-0 1 2 3 5 0 1 0 16
SPREWELL G 40 8-15 7-7 1 3 4 7 2 2 4 27
ARMSTRONG 18 2-3 0-0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 4
COLES 18 2-8 0-0 2 1 3 2 1 0 1 4
ROYAL 19 2-3 2-4 1 1 2 1 4 0 0 6
SPENCER 11 0-3 0-2 3 2 5 0 4 0 1 0
OWES 2 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
MARSHALL 2 1-1 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
KONCAK DNP - NOT WITH TEAM
TOTALS 240 39-81 13-19 12 24 36 23 20 4 19 102
(.481) (.684) TEAM REBS: 12 TOTAL TO: 19(30 PTS)
SEATTLE
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
KEMP F 39 14-22 5-7 3 5 8 2 2 1 3 33
D SCHREMPF F 38 10-13 4-5 0 4 4 8 4 0 1 27
MCILVAINE C 17 2-4 1-2 1 4 5 1 3 1 0 5
HAWKINS G 34 9-13 1-2 1 2 3 2 3 2 1 22
PAYTON G 41 6-15 0-2 3 2 5 11 3 5 3 13
PERKINS 20 4-7 4-6 0 4 4 2 2 0 0 12
EHLO 26 2-8 0-0 0 2 2 4 1 2 0 5
WINGATE 16 1-3 0-0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2
SNOW 7 1-1 0-0 1 0 1 3 1 0 0 2
STEWART 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
MCMILLAN DNP - STRAINED GROIN
SPENCER DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 49-86 15-24 9 23 32 34 21 11 9 121
(.570) (.625) TEAM REBS: 14 TOTAL TO: 9(14 PTS)
GOLDEN STATE 38 19 24 21 - 102
SEATTLE 29 28 27 37 - 121
BLOCKED SHOTS: GOLDEN STATE - FULLER. SEATTLE - MCILVAINE 3, KEMP 2,
PERKINS.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: GOLDEN STATE 11-19 (.579), MULLIN 2-4, SMITH 0-1, PRICE
4-5, SPREWELL 4-8, MARSHALL 1-1. SEATTLE 8-18 (.444), D SCHREMPF 3-4,
HAWKINS 3-4, PAYTON 1-4, PERKINS 0-2, EHLO 1-2, WINGATE 0-2.
TECHNICALS: GOLDEN STATE - MULLIN.
OFFICIALS: DAN CRAWFORD, JIM KINSEY, TED BERNHARDT.
A - 17,072. T - 2:07.
GOLDEN STATE (102) AT SEATTLE (121)
Shawn Kemp scored a season-high 33 points and Detlef Schrempf
added a season-high 27 to lead the Seattle SuperSonics to their
fourth straight win, a 121-102 victory over the Golden State
Warriors.
Kemp, who posted a season high for the second straight game, hit
14-of-22 shots, while Schrempf connected on 10-of-13 attempts
from the floor. Kemp has made 71 percent of his shots
(27-of-38) over the last two games.
"Kemp's going to hurt you inside and if you double on him and
they make shots, it's a "Catch 22" situation," Warriors coach
Rick Adelman said. "It's a challenge we're going to have all
year long. When you give up 70 points in the paint, that's
difficult. We talked before the game about not giving them the
easy baskets. "
Hersey Hawkins, who made 9-of-13 shots, scored 22 points and
Gary Payton added 13 points and 11 assists for Seattle, which
won for the fifth time in six games and improved to 4-0 against
Pacific Division opponents. The Sonics have won the last six
meetings against the Warriors.
"What I am annoyed at more than anything else is that teams are
doing what I know they can do against us," Sonics coach George
Karl said. "In the past, our strength has been taking away
teams' strengths. We are not playing bad. It's just that I want
us to get special and maybe I want us to get special faster than
they want to get special. I belive that personality traits that
you build in the regualr season, you build into the playoffs.
And I don't want to be trying to turn things on in April."
Latrell Sprewell scored 27 points, Chris Mullin added 21 and
Mark Price had 16 for Golden State, which suffered its fourth
straight loss. The Warriors have lost nine of the last 10
meetings with the Sonics and 17 of the last 20 since the 1992-93
season.
"We need to just keep plugging away and look at the ways we
played well together however long it lasted," Mullin said.
"Focus on that and just stay positive. It will come together in
time."
After Golden State's Donald Royal made a layup to tie the game,
87-87, three minutes into the fourth quarter, Sam Perkins hit a
short hook to ignite a 23-9 run. Schrempf had a pair of
three-pointers and a layup during the stretch, and Craig Ehlo
capped the burst with a basket to give Seattle a 105-91 lead
with 4:36 to go.
Seattle overcame a 38-point first quarter by Golden State, which
raced to a nine-point lead behind 15 points from Sprewell and 73
percent team shooting.
"They shot the ball exteremly well," Schrempf said. "They
played like they were on the playground. They moved the ball
around, shot threes and played real relaxed. We had a tough
tinme, controlling them. We finally got the jump on them in the
first quarter. "
The SuperSonics pulled into a 57-57 halftime tie behind 15
points by Kemp and 14 by Schrempf. Kemp also scored 15 points
in the third quarter as the Sonics vaulted into an 84-81 lead
entering the final 12 minutes.
"We didn't play well in the first half and George chewed us
out," Hawkins said. "And we responded in the second half.
Whatever we accomplished last year doesn't matter. Every team
that plays against us wants to beat us. So we have to be
mentally prepared to play every night."
Perkins finished with 12 points, Kemp had eight rebounds and
Schrempf handed out eight assists for Seattle, which shot 57
percent (49-of-86) from the floor and committed just nine
turnovers. Newcomer Jim McIlvaine had three of Seattle's six
blocked shots.
Joe Smith and Todd Fuller each had 10 points for Golden State,
which turned the ball over 19 times leading to 30 points for the
Sonics.
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INDIANA (82) AT DALLAS (103)
INDIANA
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MCKEY F 29 1-5 1-2 1 2 3 3 2 1 1 3
D DAVIS F 36 3-11 0-0 3 7 10 1 2 2 4 6
A DAVIS C 34 2-12 5-8 3 5 8 0 3 0 0 9
BEST G 29 3-5 1-2 1 2 3 5 4 1 3 7
MILLER G 22 7-13 2-4 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 19
ALLEN 16 3-8 0-0 0 1 1 1 4 0 4 8
ASKEW 10 1-3 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
DAMPIER 25 2-9 3-4 5 4 9 2 2 0 2 7
ROSE 22 6-10 0-1 1 3 4 1 2 3 3 12
HOIBERG 17 1-5 6-6 1 2 3 2 0 1 1 9
SCOTT DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 29-81 18-27 16 27 43 16 21 8 19 82
(.358) (.667) TEAM REBS: 9 TOTAL TO: 20(24 PTS)
DALLAS
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MASHBURN F 24 4-11 1-3 3 3 6 2 3 0 3 10
MEYER F 23 4-8 0-0 1 5 6 0 2 1 2 8
MONTROSS C 22 3-5 0-0 1 6 7 0 5 0 1 6
KIDD G 26 2-6 1-2 2 2 4 11 0 0 1 6
JACKSON G 27 5-10 4-4 0 2 2 2 2 1 2 16
GATLING 22 7-11 1-1 2 4 6 0 3 4 2 15
MILLER 24 2-4 0-0 2 9 11 2 2 1 2 4
HARPER 22 8-11 1-3 0 1 1 4 3 0 1 17
DUMAS 21 2-8 1-2 2 1 3 6 3 0 1 5
MCCLOUD 23 5-9 0-0 1 2 3 2 1 0 3 14
WALKER 3 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0
ROBERTS 3 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
TOTALS 240 43-86 9-15 14 37 51 29 24 7 19 103
(.500) (.600) TEAM REBS: 7 TOTAL TO: 22(18 PTS)
INDIANA 24 14 24 20 - 82
DALLAS 29 34 17 23 - 103
BLOCKED SHOTS: INDIANA - DAMPIER 3, MCKEY 2, ROSE 2, A DAVIS, MILLER.
DALLAS - MONTROSS 3, MILLER 2, MASHBURN 2, MEYER, KIDD, JACKSON, GATLING,
WALKER.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: INDIANA 6-12 (.500), MCKEY 0-1, MILLER 3-5, ALLEN 2-3,
ROSE 0-1, HOIBERG 1-2. DALLAS 8-21 (.381), MASHBURN 1-4, KIDD 1-4, JACKSON
2-4, HARPER 0-1, DUMAS 0-2, MCCLOUD 4-6.
TECHNICALS: INDIANA - MILLER 2 (EJECTED), DAMPIER, DALLAS - HARPER.
OFFICIALS: ED F RUSH, DON VADEN, BENNIE ADAMS.
A - 14,153. T - 2:08.
INDIANA (82) AT DALLAS (103)
Derek Harper scored four of his 17 points in a decisive
second-quarter run and Jim Jackson added 16 points to help the
Dallas Mavericks snap a four-game losing streak with an easy
103-82 victory over the Indiana Pacers.
The Mavericks held a 37-30 lead with 8:31 left in the second
quarter before embarking on an 18-5 run. Harper and Loren Meyer
each scored four points and George McCloud made a three-pointer
as Dallas took a 55-35 advantage with 2:09 to play in the half.
"Fortunately, we found a way to get off to a good start and were
able to build a lead and hold on to it," Dallas coach Jim
Cleamons said. "If my bench is consistent then that helps me in
terms of my rotations and substitutions. We talked earlier that
we wanted to win at home and we were disappointed that we
dropped our first two home games. We needed to get this thing
started in the right direction. Our defense gave us an
opportunity to win and get the ball in the open floor."
Chris Gatling had 15 points and Jason Kidd handed out 11 assists
for the Mavericks, who improved to 2-4 this season with their
first home win. Dallas defeated Indiana for just the second
time in their last eight meetings.
Reggie Miller scored 19 points before he was ejected in the
third quarter and Jalen Rose added 12 for Indiana, which dropped
to 1-4.
"They were quicker to the ball, they took it to the basket, they
were great," Pacers coach Larry Brown said. "Then their bench
came in and played great. I didn't see one guy out there that
didn't contribute. We need to keep working it."
The Mavs opened their lead to 63-38 at halftime with Jackson
scoring 11 and Harper 10.
"With this performance everybody was on top of their game
offensively and defensively," Kidd siad. "Hopefully, this is
the week that it all comes together. Everybody contributed on
the bench. Now we're excited and we have to do the same thing
when we play Minnesota. Everything was in sync now, it is just
a matter of us doing that on a consistent basis."
The Pacers responded with the first five points of the second
half to get within 20 with 10:38 left in the third, but Dallas
scored 12 of the next 13 points for a 75-44 advantage with 7:49
to go.
Jackson had five points and Mahsburn made a three-pointer during
the run. Miller received his second technical foul at 9:08 of
the third and was ejected.
Dallas rookie forward Samaki Walker, the ninth overall pick in
this year's draft, made his NBA debut. He was the only Maverick
who failed to score, although he grabbed two rebounds and
blocked a shot in three minutes.
The 20-year-old Walker, who started the regular season on the
injured list with a strength deficit in his right quadricep,
became the youngest player in Mavericks' history to appear in a
regular-season game.
McCloud finished with 14 points and Mashburn had 10 for Dallas,
which shot 50 percent (43-of-86) from the field and 38 percent
(8-of-21) from three-point range.
Miller and Rose were the only Pacers to score in double figures.
Indiana shot 36 percent (29-of-81) from the field and was
outrebounded, 51-43.
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LA CLIPPERS (99) AT VANCOUVER (92) - FINAL IN 2ND OT
LA CLIPPERS
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
ROGERS F 36 5-8 2-2 1 4 5 4 5 0 2 12
VAUGHT F 29 0-8 0-0 3 6 9 4 2 2 1 0
DUCKWORTH C 5 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
SEALY G 44 7-16 7-9 3 2 5 3 5 1 2 22
RICHARDSON G 37 5-15 2-2 1 5 6 4 0 1 2 15
ROBERTS 28 7-11 1-2 2 5 7 1 6 0 0 15
DEHERE 11 2-6 1-2 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 5
OUTLAW 40 5-7 3-4 3 5 8 1 3 5 1 13
MURRAY 30 1-10 2-2 3 6 9 6 0 1 1 4
PIATKOWSKI 10 1-2 1-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
D MARTIN 14 3-7 1-1 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 7
WRIGHT 6 1-2 1-2 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 3
TOTALS 290 37-94 21-27 16 36 52 25 27 11 15 99
(.394) (.778) TEAM REBS: 14 TOTAL TO: 16(9 PTS)
VANCOUVER
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
B EDWARDS F 43 5-10 0-0 1 3 4 0 4 0 5 11
ROGERS F 21 3-5 1-2 2 4 6 1 2 0 0 7
REEVES C 50 10-18 10-13 2 9 11 2 5 1 4 30
PEELER G 50 7-17 4-4 0 7 7 6 4 3 2 21
ANTHONY G 46 6-15 3-4 1 8 9 11 4 3 2 19
LYNCH 21 0-2 0-0 1 0 1 2 2 0 1 0
ABDUR-RAHIM 31 2-10 0-0 4 5 9 0 4 3 3 4
MAYBERRY 12 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0
MOBLEY 8 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
MOTEN 8 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
CHILCUTT DNP - COACH'S DECISION
MANNING DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 290 33-81 18-23 11 36 47 25 28 11 17 92
(.407) (.783) TEAM REBS: 3 TOTAL TO: 17(12 PTS)
LA CLIPPERS 13 23 24 21 6 12 - 99
VANCOUVER 30 16 20 15 6 5 - 92
BLOCKED SHOTS: LA CLIPPERS - OUTLAW 4, VAUGHT 2, SEALY 2. VANCOUVER -
REEVES 5, ROGERS 2, MOTEN 2, LYNCH.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: LA CLIPPERS 4-18 (.222), ROGERS 0-1, SEALY 1-1,
RICHARDSON 3-7, DEHERE 0-3, MURRAY 0-4, PIATKOWSKI 0-1, D MARTIN 0-1.
VANCOUVER 8-16 (.500), B EDWARDS 1-2, PEELER 3-7, ANTHONY 4-7.
TECHNICALS: VANCOUVER - ILLEGAL DEFENSE 3, B EDWARDS.
OFFICIALS: JOE CRAWFORD, LUIS GRILLO, GEORGE TOLIVER.
A - 14,259. T - 2:47.
LA CLIPPERS (99) AT VANCOUVER (92) - FINAL IN 2ND OT
Malik Sealy scored 22 points and Pooh Richardson added five of
his 15 in the second overtime to lead the Los Angeles Clippers
to a 99-92 victory over the winless Vancouver Grizzlies.
The Clippers have won three straight road games for the first
time since posting consecutive wins at Dallas, Denver and
Cleveland in the 1992-93 season. Stanley Roberts had 15 points
for Los Angleles, which has won consecutive games for the first
time this season.
Los Angeles trailed the entire game until Richardson banked a
short jumper as time ran out in the fourth quarter, tying the
score, 81-81.
"We wanted to try and get a shot in the post to see if we could
get a double or something," Richardson said. "We couldn't
penetrate so we took the shot. Suddenly the ball was loose and I
picked it up and basically threw it in the basket to beat the
buzzer."
The game was delayed for five minutes in the first overtime as
as lightning from a storm reduced the arena lighting.
Bryant Reeves scored a career-high 30 points and grabbed 11
rebounds for the Grizzlies (0-7), who have lost four of five
meetings with the Clippers.
"Our confidence was definitely there," Reeves said. I thought
we were going to win the game all alone. I know I had to make
some plays down the stretch. Unfortantely I missed a free throw
there that could have put it away for us. But those things
happen, I can't be down on myself. I thought we played a great
game. It's just hard for me to accept now that we've lost.
Hopefully we can build on this."
Greg Anthony was one rebound shy of becoming the second Grizzlie
in franchise history to record a triple-double. Anthony
finished with 19 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds.
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LA LAKERS (126) AT HOUSTON (115) - FINAL IN 2ND OT
LA LAKERS
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
CEBALLOS F 46 9-20 2-3 4 6 10 1 4 0 0 22
CAMPBELL F 43 2-9 7-8 5 5 10 0 3 1 2 11
ONEAL C 42 15-24 4-8 6 9 15 2 6 1 5 34
JONES G 36 7-12 1-1 2 1 3 2 6 1 2 18
VAN EXEL G 54 10-27 5-5 0 2 2 14 0 2 0 29
ROOKS 17 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 0 6 0 0 0
SCOTT 40 1-3 4-4 0 5 5 1 1 0 2 7
FISHER 4 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
BRYANT 5 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2
KNIGHT 3 1-1 1-2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3
BLOUNT DNP - LEFT THIGH CONTUSION
ROBINSON DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 290 46-100 24-31 18 30 48 20 27 5 14 126
(.460) (.774) TEAM REBS: 13 TOTAL TO: 14(16 PTS)
HOUSTON
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
ELIE F 36 1-5 0-0 0 2 2 4 2 4 3 3
BARKLEY F 58 10-18 10-13 9 7 16 5 3 0 7 33
OLAJUWON C 32 12-22 7-9 1 6 7 2 4 1 1 31
DREXLER G 29 1-9 2-2 2 3 5 5 1 3 1 4
MALONEY G 21 2-9 0-0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 5
WILLIS 19 3-9 0-0 4 2 6 0 4 0 1 6
MOORE 25 2-7 1-1 0 0 0 5 2 0 1 5
DAVIS 37 7-10 0-2 1 4 5 8 3 1 0 19
JONES 7 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
MACK 4 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
BULLARD 22 4-8 0-0 1 3 4 0 0 0 1 9
HARRINGTON DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 290 42-98 20-27 18 28 46 32 20 10 16 115
(.429) (.741) TEAM REBS: 17 TOTAL TO: 18(19 PTS)
LA LAKERS 30 19 29 22 13 13 - 126
HOUSTON 23 26 21 30 13 2 - 115
BLOCKED SHOTS: LA LAKERS - CAMPBELL 2, ONEAL 2, JONES, SCOTT. HOUSTON -
OLAJUWON 4, BARKLEY 3, DREXLER, WILLIS, JONES.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: LA LAKERS 10-27 (.370), CEBALLOS 2-4, JONES 3-6, VAN
EXEL 4-12, SCOTT 1-3, FISHER 0-1, BRYANT 0-1. HOUSTON 11-37 (.297), ELIE
1-4, BARKLEY 3-6, DREXLER 0-3, MALONEY 1-6, MOORE 0-5, DAVIS 5-7, MACK
0-1, BULLARD 1-5.
TECHNICALS: LA LAKERS - ILLEGAL DEFENSE 2, HOUSTON - HEAD COACH
TOMJANOVICH, BARKLEY, BULLARD.
OFFICIALS: JOE FORTE, NOLAN FINE, DEREK RICHARDSON.
A - 16,285. T - 3:04.
LA LAKERS (126) AT HOUSTON (115) - FINAL IN 2ND OT
Shaquille O'Neal had 34 points and 15 rebounds and Nick Van Exel
added eight of his 29 points in double-overtime as the Los
Angeles Lakers handed the Houston Rockets their first loss of
the season, 126-115.
Despite playing without O'Neal, who fouled out with 17 seconds
left in the fourth quarter, Los Angeles outscored Houston, 13-2,
in the second overtime. Cedric Ceballos had 22 points and 10
rebounds and Eddie Jones added 18 points although he fouled out
with 9:46 left in the fourth.
"I felt we played very well," O'Neal said. "We took the Rockets
into two overtimes even after two starters fouled out. The win
brings us closer together as a team. If everyone can play their
role like tonight than we can win on any given night."
Van Exel, who shot 10-of-27 from the field, also had 14 assists
as the Lakers squared their road record at 2-2.
"I had to get my confidence going," Van Exel said. "I still
have to come out and play my game. I played decent. I had to
keep talking to myself and stay in the game."
Charles Barkley scored 33 points and Hakeem Olajuwon added 31
for Houston (6-1), which was the last undefeated team in the
Western Conference. The Chicago Bulls have won their first
seven games.
"We played as well as we could but that's basketball," said
Barkley. "I didn't expect us to go 82-0. This will be a battle
all year with these guys. Utah, Seattle and the Lakers, every
time we play those teams we have to be ready to play."
Elden Campbell made a layup to give the Lakers the lead for
good, 115-113, just 18 seconds into the second overtime. Van
Exel's three-pointer made it 118-113, 37 seconds later. Both
teams were scoreless until Van Exel made another three-pointer
with 2:02 left for a 121-113 advantage.
Travis Knight's free throw made it 122-113 with 1:33 remaining.
Mario Elie then made a jumper for Houston's only points of the
period to make it 122-115.
Knight had a tip in with just under a minute left and Van Exel
had a jumper for the final points with 12.5 seconds to go.
Byron Scott made a free throw with 8:19 left in the fourth to
give the Lakers their biggest lead of the game, 89-77. Rookie
Emanuel Davis, who had a career-high 19 points, nailed a three
pointer to close a 13-5 run and pull the Rockets within 94-90
with 3:49 remaining.
"We loooked like we had it all going and then all of a sudden
they got it all going," said Lakers coach Del Harris. "You
wouldn't expect a team wihout their big guns to win but that
exactly what happened. We weren't worried when Shaq went out.
Had it not been for the huge effort from Elden we wouldn't have
won."
Olajuwon made two free throws to cut the deficit to 94-91 with
2:43 left. Ceballos followed with a three-pointer to give the
Lakers a 97-91 cushion with 1:41 to go. The Rockets outscored
the Lakers, 9-3, the rest of the way as Barkley's three-pointer
tied the score at 100 with 5.7 seconds left.
"It was a good game and it could have gone either way," Olajuwon
said. "LA played a wonderful game down the stretch. We missed
some wide open shots at the end that we have to make. We found
the open man but didn't make the shot."
Olajuwon scored eight of Houston's 13 points and Ceballos had
seven for the Lakers in the first overtime. Ceballos opened the
scoring with a 20-footer just 16 seconds into the session. But
the Rockets tied the score as Olajuwon sank two free throws with
just over four minutes left.
Van Exel hit an 18-footer to give the Lakers a 104-102 edge with
3:50 left but Olajuwon's hook shot tied it 22 seconds later.
Ceballos made a running jumper as Los Angeles took its final
lead of the first overtime, 106-104, with 3:07 left. Davis made
a three-pointer and Matt Bullard followed with a 19-footer to
give Houston a 109-106 lead with 2:13 remaining.
Campbell made two free throws to pull the Lakers within a point
but Houston regained a three-point lead on Olajuwon's layup.
Ceballos made a three-pointer to knot the score 111-111 with
44.5 seconds left. Olajuwon hit a 16-footer with 25.5 seconds
left but Campbell hit a pair of free throws with eight seconds
to go.
nba.1442vpoznanovic,
PHILADELPHIA (101) AT NEW YORK (97)
PHILADELPHIA
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
COLEMAN F 40 5-15 5-8 2 2 4 3 1 1 5 16
WEATHERSPOON F 38 0-4 1-2 2 4 6 0 4 0 1 1
WILLIAMS C 36 7-9 1-2 5 7 12 1 3 0 1 15
IVERSON G 44 10-19 10-17 3 4 7 6 2 2 5 35
STACKHOUSE G 36 8-14 7-12 0 4 4 5 3 2 2 28
HARRIS 13 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2
CAGE 11 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
OVERTON 4 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
DAVIS 18 2-7 0-2 1 2 3 3 4 2 1 4
BRADTKE DNP - COACH'S DECISION
MACLEAN DNP - COACH'S DECISION
WALTERS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 33-71 24-43 13 25 38 19 19 7 16 101
(.465) (.558) TEAM REBS: 17 TOTAL TO: 16(24 PTS)
NEW YORK
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
JOHNSON F 37 10-17 6-7 2 3 5 3 6 0 0 28
OAKLEY F 35 4-8 1-2 3 4 7 3 4 3 1 9
EWING C 41 12-23 2-6 3 12 15 2 4 1 2 26
HOUSTON G 30 2-10 2-2 0 1 1 6 4 0 0 7
WARD G 29 5-7 0-0 1 2 3 6 6 1 3 12
STARKS 24 4-8 0-0 0 1 1 2 1 1 5 9
H WILLIAMS 6 0-0 2-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
BROOKS 15 1-2 0-0 2 2 4 0 6 0 0 2
B WILLIAMS 14 0-1 0-0 2 3 5 0 1 1 1 0
WALLACE 8 1-5 0-0 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 2
JENT 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MCCARTY DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 39-81 13-19 14 28 42 22 34 7 14 97
(.481) (.684) TEAM REBS: 8 TOTAL TO: 15(20 PTS)
PHILADELPHIA 30 19 23 29 - 101
NEW YORK 26 20 28 23 - 97
BLOCKED SHOTS: PHILADELPHIA - COLEMAN. NEW YORK - EWING 2, JOHNSON, WARD.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: PHILADELPHIA 11-19 (.579), COLEMAN 1-3, IVERSON 5-9,
STACKHOUSE 5-5, HARRIS 0-1, DAVIS 0-1. NEW YORK 6-15 (.400), JOHNSON 2-6,
HOUSTON 1-5, WARD 2-2, STARKS 1-2.
TECHNICALS: NEW YORK - ILLEGAL DEFENSE 2.
OFFICIALS: JACK NIES, MONTY MCCUTCHEN, SCOTT FOSTER.
A - 19,763. T - 2:20.
PHILADELPHIA (101) AT NEW YORK (97)
Rookie Allen Iverson scored 25 of his season-high 35 points in
the second half and made a key steal in the final minute as the
Philadelphia 76ers defeated the New York Knicks, 101-97, for
their first win at Madison Square Garden in nearly three years.
In a game that featured 17 ties and 15 lead changes, Iverson
showed veteran composure. He used his tremendous quickness to
foul out both of New York's point guards in the fourth quarter,
when he scored 10 points and corraled two crucial loose balls.
"Solid, solid performance by Alan, just in terms of composure,
pushing the ball forward and creating the tempo we talked
about," Philadelphia coach Johnny Davis said. "He's learning
every game and every possession, he did a real nice job for us."
Derrick Coleman's two free throws gave Philadelphia a 97-95 lead
with 51 seconds left and Iverson grabbed a pass that bounced off
the hands of John Starks. He was fouled and made one free throw
for a 98-95 lead with 38 seconds to go.
"I think I already proved that I should be on this level,"
Iverson said. "Now what I'm trying to do is win. Whatever the
team needs me to do, whatever the coaches want me to do --
that's what I try to do. I don't try to go out there and
impress."
Iverson was asked if he thought anybody could guard him.
"I don't think so, when my jumper is on, I can pretty much do
whatever I want. But when the junmper is on, it's hard to stop
anybody in this league."
The Knicks tried three three-pointers on their next possession,
including two by Larry Johnson, who led New York with 28 points.
But all three missed and Iverson grabbed the rebound. He added
another free throw with five seconds left.
Jerry Stackhouse scored 28 points for Philadelphia, which won at
New York for the first time since January 23rd, 1994, snapping a
five-game losing streak at the Garden. Scott Williams had 15
points and 12 rebounds and Coleman added 14 points as the Sixers
won their third straight game overall.
"Scott played terrific," Davis said. "He took Ewing on. That's
a colossal test as you know and he didn't back down."
Patrick Ewing had 26 points and 15 rebounds for the Knicks, who
are 4-0 on the road but 1-2 at home. New York had won 24 of its
previous 29 games against Philadelphia.
"In games like this you have to win despite your struggles,"
Ewing said. "Whether you're struggling or not, we should've won
this game. Alan Iverson is a great player, but this loss is on
us."
Iverson made two free throws and Stackhouse hit a three-pointer
to give Philadelphia a 93-89 lead with 3:04 remaining. But
Charles Oakley made a foul shot and, after Coleman missed two
free throws, Johnson tied the game with a three-pointer with
1:50 to play.
"On the coast, we got away with a lot because we didn't play
with that much intensity," New york's Alan Houston said. "But
you can't afford to do that when you play a team that's
explosive. Against a team like Philly, you have to play great
individual defense because they are so good at penetrating and
kicking out to an open man. Especially a guy like Iverson, he's
so dangerous because he handles the ball. He's not just a
scoreer, he's a good passer."
Iverson made two more free throws before Ewing tied it for the
last time at 95-95 with 1:21 left. Philadelphia was 14-of-26
from the line in the final period.
Iverson had three three-pointers and 15 points in the third
quarter, which featured seven ties and five lead changes.
Stackhouse, who was coming off a career-high 36 points against
Phoenix on Saturday, scored 17 in the first half as the Sixers
grabbed a 49-46 lead. Johnson kept the Knicks close with 15
points.
"I don't think I was in a slump, I was getting the shots I
wanted, I had been starting off taking jumpers," Stackhouse
said. "Tonight I tried to get myself something going to the
basket, those kind of shots build your confidence."
Late in the first half, Iverson went in for a breakaway layup
and was pushed into the basket support by Oakley, who was
assessed a flagrant foul. Iverson came up holding his right
elbow but stayed in the game.
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PHOENIX (89) AT MILWAUKEE (99) - FINAL IN OT
PHOENIX
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
HORRY F 38 4-7 0-0 1 5 6 3 6 1 2 9
MANNING F 40 10-17 2-4 4 6 10 3 6 0 2 22
KLEINE C 17 2-3 0-0 0 5 5 0 0 0 2 4
CASSELL G 37 11-18 6-7 1 2 3 7 6 2 9 30
PERSON G 26 3-8 0-0 0 2 2 1 0 0 2 6
TISDALE 8 0-4 0-2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
NASH 15 1-5 0-0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 2
FINLEY 35 3-9 1-1 3 4 7 1 1 2 1 8
GREEN 21 1-5 0-0 0 3 3 1 0 0 0 2
CHAPMAN 28 3-13 0-0 1 2 3 3 1 1 0 6
BROWN DNP - COACH'S DECISION
DAVIS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 265 38-89 9-14 10 30 40 22 22 7 19 89
(.427) (.643) TEAM REBS: 8 TOTAL TO: 19(28 PTS)
MILWAUKEE
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
BAKER F 48 13-25 5-7 5 7 12 3 3 2 3 32
ROBINSON F 41 8-19 4-4 3 2 5 2 3 1 6 20
LANG C 15 1-5 0-0 2 1 3 1 0 0 1 2
DOUGLAS G 26 0-2 0-0 1 2 3 3 1 1 0 0
ALLEN G 42 9-19 4-6 1 7 8 3 1 2 1 23
NEWMAN 19 1-4 2-2 1 0 1 1 2 2 0 4
PERRY 27 2-4 1-2 1 0 1 4 1 0 1 5
GILLIAM 36 5-14 3-3 8 14 22 0 0 0 3 13
WOLF 5 0-2 0-0 0 5 5 0 1 0 0 0
HANCOCK 5 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
WOOD 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
RESPERT DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 265 39-95 19-24 22 38 60 17 12 8 15 99
(.411) (.792) TEAM REBS: 9 TOTAL TO: 17(17 PTS)
PHOENIX 27 16 27 16 3 - 89
MILWAUKEE 27 18 16 25 13 - 99
BLOCKED SHOTS: PHOENIX - HORRY 4. MILWAUKEE - BAKER 5, ROBINSON.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: PHOENIX 4-18 (.222), HORRY 1-2, CASSELL 2-6, PERSON
0-2, NASH 0-1, FINLEY 1-3, CHAPMAN 0-4. MILWAUKEE 2-9 (.222), BAKER 1-2,
DOUGLAS 0-1, ALLEN 1-5, PERRY 0-1.
TECHNICALS: MILWAUKEE - ILLEGAL DEFENSE 4.
OFFICIALS: DERRICK STAFFORD, BILL OAKES, SEAN CORBIN.
A - 13,565. T - 2:25.
PHOENIX (89) AT MILWAUKEE (99) - FINAL IN OT
Vin Baker scored five of his 32 points in overtime and Armon
Gilliam added a career-high 22 rebounds as the the Milwaukee
Bucks defeated the winless Phoenix Suns, 99-89.
The win was the first for Milwaukee (5-1) over Phoenix since
March 5th, 1991, snapping an 11-game losing streak in the
series. The Suns (0-7) have lost eight straight dating back to
the final game last season.
"We went out tonight against a team that's strong and we knew
they were going to throw their best stuff at us," said Bucks
coach Chris Ford. "We got big play out of Vin Baker, Armon
Gilliam and Ray Allen. It was a great team win."
Michael Finley's three-point play accounted for all the Suns'
points in overtime. Then, with 3:36 to go, Baker scored five of
the Milwaukee's final eight points on a jumper and a
three-pointer. Glenn Robinson and Allen added four points each
in overtime.
Sam Cassell had 30 points for Phoenix, which needs two more
losses to tie the worst start in franchise history. The Suns
began the season with nine straight defeats in 1985-86.
"When you're going bad, you're going bad," said Phoenix coach
Cotton Fitzsimmons. "We played hard but couldn't get it done.
This was a game we deserved to win."
Baker and Robinson, who entered the game with a combined 43.6
average, totaled 52 points. Allen, acquired in a draft day
trade with Minnesota, hit 9-of-19 shots en route to a
career-high 23 points.
"We believed in ourselves in training camp," he said. "We're
becoming a better team. Now we know we can pull off the close
games which gives us confidence on the road."
The Bucks won depsite hitting just 41 percent of their shots
(39-for-95). Milwaukee had a 60-40 rebounding edge, including a
22-10 advantage on the offensive boards.
"I was forunate enough to get some offensive rebounds that kind
of fell in my direction," said Gilliam, who also scored 13
points. "Tonight was my night to see just what I could do. I'm
just going to go out each night and fill the void."
Danny Manning added 22 points and 10 rebounds for the Suns.
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PORTLAND (97) AT MINNESOTA (100)
PORTLAND
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
WALLACE F 32 4-8 7-8 2 5 7 0 5 1 2 15
C ROBINSON F 42 4-12 3-4 1 2 3 4 2 1 3 14
SABONIS C 22 3-5 1-2 3 5 8 6 1 1 1 8
RIDER G 39 8-21 2-4 0 4 4 1 0 1 3 22
ANDERSON G 36 2-12 11-14 1 1 2 8 4 3 1 15
TRENT 10 3-4 0-0 3 2 5 0 0 0 2 6
MCKIE 21 1-5 2-2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 5
DUDLEY 25 3-6 0-3 1 6 7 1 5 0 1 6
WINGFIELD 12 2-4 2-3 2 1 3 1 2 0 0 6
BUTLER 1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CHILDRESS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
JORDAN DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 30-78 28-40 13 28 41 21 20 7 13 97
(.385) (.700) TEAM REBS: 17 TOTAL TO: 14(12 PTS)
MINNESOTA
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
GUGLIOTTA F 41 7-19 11-18 3 8 11 6 3 3 5 26
K GARNETT F 39 9-13 2-2 5 6 11 5 2 4 3 20
VRANKOVIC C 11 2-2 0-0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 4
WEST G 28 4-9 2-2 1 1 2 0 6 0 0 10
PORTER G 36 4-7 8-10 2 4 6 8 4 0 3 18
PARKS 11 1-2 0-0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 2
MITCHELL 27 6-14 0-1 1 2 3 2 4 0 0 13
ROBINSON 22 1-6 1-4 0 3 3 3 4 0 2 3
CARR 10 1-5 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2
HEAL 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
D GARRETT 14 1-2 0-0 2 3 5 0 4 1 1 2
MARBURY DNP - DID NOT DRESS
TOTALS 240 36-79 24-37 15 29 44 25 32 8 15 100
(.456) (.649) TEAM REBS: 14 TOTAL TO: 15(17 PTS)
PORTLAND 20 24 27 26 - 97
MINNESOTA 25 26 28 21 - 100
BLOCKED SHOTS: PORTLAND - C ROBINSON 2, WALLACE, SABONIS, ANDERSON.
MINNESOTA - K GARNETT 3, GUGLIOTTA 3, VRANKOVIC 2, D GARRETT.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: PORTLAND 9-21 (.429), C ROBINSON 3-7, SABONIS 1-1,
RIDER 4-8, ANDERSON 0-2, MCKIE 1-2, BUTLER 0-1. MINNESOTA 4-8 (.500),
GUGLIOTTA 1-1, WEST 0-1, PORTER 2-4, MITCHELL 1-1, CARR 0-1.
TECHNICALS: PORTLAND - WALLACE, RIDER, ILLEGAL DEFENSE, MINNESOTA -
ILLEGAL DEFENSE.
OFFICIALS: KEN MAUER, BLANE REICHELT, PAUL MIHALAK.
A - 14,107. T - 2:32.
PORTLAND (97) AT MINNESOTA (100)
Tom Gugliotta scored 26 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and hit a
free throw with eight seconds remaining as the Minnesota
Timberwolves held off a late charge by the Portland Trail
Blazers for a 100-97 victory.
Kevin Garnett added 20 points and 11 rebounds and Terry Porter
had 18 points and eight assists for Minnesota (3-3), which
defeated Portland for the first time in 16 games.
Gugliotta has led the Timberwolves in scoring in every game.
"Our forwards were great," said Minnesota coach Flip Saunders.
"Googs (Gugliotta) and K.G. (Garnett) played a great game. One
of the team's key is that we play with a lot of energy. We came
out with a lot of energy and that was important for us from the
standpoint of winning our home games."
Former Timberwolf Isaiah Rider had 22 points and Rasheed Wallace
added 15 points and seven rebounds for the Blazers, who had won
their last six at Minnesota and still lead the all-time series,
27-3.
"It was an important win for us tonight for the fact that we are
3-3 and not 2-4," said guard James Robinson. "As a team, we need
to start the season out well to carry the momentum throughout
the year."
The Timberwolves held a 98-94 lead with a minute to go as the
momentum shifted back and forth. Kenny Anderson stole the ball
from Gugliotta, was fouled by Porter with 57.8 remaining and hit
a free throw to bring Portland within three.
The Blazers tried to tie it on three seperate three-point
attempts as Rider missed the first and had the second blocked
and Cliff Robinson banged the third off the rim with 19.3
seconds to go.
"We did not do the things we should have," said Portland coach
P.J. Carlisimo. "They came out early and took control. In the
second half, we did a much better job of taking care of the
ball. The only quarter we played well on defense was the
fourth."
Porter opened a 99-95 lead on a free throw with nine seconds
remaining, but Dontonio Wingfield made one of two with 8.8 to go
to set the stage for Gugliotta's heroics. Portland had one
final opportunity when Porter fouled Anderson with 1.3 seconds
left. Anderson hit the first foul shot, but Gugliotta grabbed
the rebound on the second to seal the victory.
"The fast start helped them win this game," said Wallace. "It's
like we were in a daze. In the second half, we played better,
but it was too late."
It was the second straight heartstopper in a week between the
two teams. On Thursday, the Trail Blazers won a 95-94 thriller
in Portland when Anderson hit an awkward one-handed drive in the
lane as time ran out.
Minnesota center Stojko Vrankovic left with a right eye
contusion at 5:20 of the second quarter and did not return.
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BULLETS' MURESAN ACTIVATED; EXPECTED TO START TONIGHT
Washington Bullets center Gheorghe Muresan has been activated from the
injured list and is expected to make his season debut tonight against
the Detroit Pistons.
The 7-foot-7 Muresan strained his right hip flexor over the summer and
missed all of training camp before being placed on the IL to start the
season. Room was made for him over the weekend when center Lorenzo
Williams was disabled with a knee injury.
Muresan was named the NBA's Most Improved Player last season when he
led the league in shooting percentage (58.4) and set career highs in
points (14.5), rebounds (9.6), blocked shots (2.26), assists (0.7) and
steals (0.68). The 25-year-old native of Romania improved his scoring
average by 4.5 per game, his rebounding average by 2.9 and his blocked
shots by 0.52.
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WOLVES' MARBURY WILL NOT RETURN TONIGHT
Rookie point guard Stephon Marbury, who missed Minnesota's recent
four-game road trip due to a sprained right ankle, will not play
tonight when the Timberwolves host the Portland Trail Blazers.
Marbury continued to undergo treatment on the ankle Monday and a
decision to delay his return was made today.
Marbury suffered the injury in the first quarter of Minnesota's season
opener against San Antonio November 1st. He returned for a
three-minute stint in the third quarter of the Wolves' 82-78 victory,
but was forced to leave due to soreness in the ankle.
An MRI showed no damage to the ankle, but Marbury did not accompany
the team on the road trip in which the Timberwolves went 1-3.
Marbury, who led the Wolves in scoring (17.3) and assists (4.8) in the
pre-season, was selected with the fourth overall pick by the Milwaukee
Bucks and was traded to the Timberwolves on draft day.
Minnesota hosts Dallas on Thursday.
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Hawks placed Henderson on the injured list
Atlanta Hawks forward Alan Henderson, who has missed the entire season
because of gastrointestinal flu, was placed on the injured list
Tuesday as doctors struggle to find the cause of his ailment.
Dr. Milton Frank, the team physician, said Henderson's condition is
similar to gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the intestinal tract,
and is complicated by a mild inflammation of the pancreas.
The Hawks dressed only nine players for an 87-83 victory over
Cleveland on Tuesday. Steve Smith, Ken Norman and Priest Lauderdale
also missed the game because of injuries.
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Walker activated; Strickland on IR
DALLAS (Nov 12, 1996 - 20:18 EST) -- The Dallas Mavericks activated
first-round pick Samaki Walker from the injured list Wednesday.
To make room for him on the roster, the Mavericks placed undrafted
rookie guard Erick Strickland on the injured list. He has a strained
left shoulder.
Dallas made the 6-foot-9, 240-pound Walker the ninth overall pick in
last summer's draft, but have yet to see the forward play because of a
problem in his right quadricep.
Walker, who left Louisville after two seasons, will become the
youngest player in team history when he debuts.
Strickland must miss five games while recovering from the injury he
suffered in a preseason game Oct. 16. He's scored four points in 15
minutes over two games this season.
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Pistons activate Reid, place Williams on injured list
DETROIT (Nov 12, 1996 - 21:48 EST) -- The Detroit Pistons on Tuesday
activated forward/center Don Reid and placed rookie forward Jerome
Williams on the injured reserve with a sprained wrist.
Reid was placed on the injured list on Oct. 31, after undergoing
arthroscopic surgery on Oct. 12 to repair ligaments in his left knee.
He did not play in the preseason and has not played in the regular
season to date.
Reid played 69 games for the Pistons in 1996-97 season, starting 46
times. The Pistons were 30-16 in games that Reid started at center.
Williams will stay on the injured list for at least five games.
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Spurs-Jazz game rescheduled for April
SALT LAKE CITY (Nov 12, 1996 - 17:18 EST) -- The Utah Jazz game
against San Antonio that was postponed because of a damaged floor has
been rescheduled for April 7 at the Delta Center.
The game was postponed Monday by NBA officials out of concern for
players' safety. Edges of the sectioned hardwood floor were sticking
up as high as one-eighth of an inch in more than 30 places, according
to Jazz spokesman Nathan Kirkham.
The team said on Tuesday the NBA had rescheduled the game to April 7
at 7 p.m. Wednesday's game against Sacramento will be played as
scheduled on a previous Jazz floor, which will be installed that
morning.
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AROUND THE NBA: Riley gets his 800th win
(Nov 12, 1996 - 10:36 EST) -- As the victory total mounts, Pat Riley's
place in basketball history rises with it. Miami's win over Indiana
last weekend was the 800th of his coaching career. He became the ninth
pro coach -- we count Larry Brown's combination of ABA and NBA
victories, though the NBA doesn't -- to reach that number.
Even more impressive is his .702 winning percentage -- second in
league history only to Phil Jackson's .721 -- and his 137 playoff
victories, most in league annals by far.
Still, skeptics point out that Riley has been lucky. What if his first
head coaching opportunity had come with an expansion team? Would he
have turned out to be Bill Musselman or Dick Harter?
He inherited a Los Angeles Lakers team with Magic Johnson and Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar, won four championships, then had the clout to call his
own shot, moving first to New York, where Patrick Ewing was in
residence, and then to Miami, where, with total control of the
organization, he swung a series of deals to remake the team.
His pile of playoff victories is a product not only of these great
players, but of the vast expansion of the league and playoffs since
Red Auerbach's day. Auerbach won 38 fewer playoff games, but that was
all he needed to earn nine championships, more than twice as many as
Riley.
For the skeptics, it is fitting that Riley's gaudy winning percentage,
fashioned mostly with those Showtime teams of the '80s, has now been
surpassed by Jackson's, who had arguably even greater good fortune to
get his coaching break with a team that included Michael Jordan.
It is the Miami team that will be the best gauge of Riley's ability.
He inherited nothing there. Now he has Alonzo Mourning, but only
because he engineered the trade to get him. He was just a little too
contemptuous of league rules in manipulating the salary cap to sign
Juwan Howard last summer, and that's why the league nullified the
deal.
But the Heat has played well in the early going. If Miami turns into a
contender, it will be solely on his account.
At his most introspective, even Riley admits to thinking sometimes
that he is an accidental legend.
"It's gone by very fast," he said. "I've seen Earvin retire, Kareem
retire. The four years I spent in New York were probably the hardest
years I worked in my life. Now I'm here with a new franchise. I walk
around sometimes in my house and say, 'What am I doing here?"'
* * *
PARENTAL RIGHTS: In a world in which coaches no longer can tell
players anything, parents may have the only influence left. Last
season, Isaiah Rider's mother had to rush out onto the floor in
Minnesota to quiet one of her son's tantrums.
Last week, after shooting .424 and averaging five rebounds in his
first two games, Chris Webber found a message on his answering machine
from his father, Mayce.
"He said, 'I don't want to criticize your game,' and he has never told
me anything about my game before, not one time in my whole life," said
Webber. "By him watching our first two games, he said it seemed
different, that I needed to turn up the effort."
The next night, Webber registered 22 points and a career-best 21
rebounds against the Spurs.
"When I first heard (the message), my reaction was one of pride. I
said, 'C'mon, I'm giving everything. I haven't played in a while,"'
Webber said. "Then I thought, 'He's right.' When I got out, I knew I
was going to give everything."
Hmmm. Wonder why Bullets coach Jimmy Lynam never thought of that.
* * *
BRAINS OF THE OPERATION: When Brent Price broke his elbow in
preseason, most analysts figured the Rockets would sign Spud Webb or
trade for another established point guard to-run their high-powered
offense. But coach Rudy Tomjanovich says he likes his three-headed
rookie in the spot for now -- starter Matt Maloney, who shoots threes;
Randy Livingston, who penetrates; and Emanual Davis, who plays
defense.
With offensive stars Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley and Clyde
Drexler, all accomplished passers, the Rockets, like the Bulls with
Jordan and Scottie Pippen, don't think they need a traditional point
guard.
* * *
AROUND THE LEAGUE: In Tokyo, where the Magic and Nets played a
two-game series last week, Orlando players visited a Buddhist temple
and were each given a small packet said to contain Buddha. They were
told it would provide good luck for their games against New Jersey.
One catch: Nets players toured the same temple and got the same gift
Dennis Johnson, passed over for induction into the Hall of Fame last
year, is back on the ballot this year, but says he's not losing sleep
over it. "After I didn't get in last year, I learned that I don't need
anything to solidify my career," he said. "Would I still like it? Yes.
But if I don't, I won't cry. And I won't sit on the edge of my seat
waiting. I mean that." Johnson was a five-time All-Star, nine-time
all-defensive team selection and three-time NBA champion.
Here's what the Bulls' Ron Harper, an accomplished defensive guard,
had to say about Sixers rookie Allen Iverson: "The kid can flat-out
play. All the hype about him is true. I've played Anfernee Hardaway
and all the guards out west, and there's nobody as quick as him. The
kid is going to be something special. When he learns how to play the
game -- whew! -- I hope I'm retired by then."
Don't look now, but the Milwaukee Bucks are trying to play defense.
Coach Chris Ford's favorite stat is defensive field goal percentage,
and his team's .437 mark helped explain its 3-0 start ... With Shawn
Bradley now well-established in his role as a bust, the rumor mill has
him being shipped home to Utah, in hopes that's where his game is. But
he makes $5.1 million, and the Jazz isn't giving up any front-line
players, which makes it hard to do ... Suns tickets, once a hot item,
are cooling quickly with the departure of Barkley. Ticket brokers, who
routinely bought up any available tickets to sold-out America West
Arena, are buying only for the lone Bulls game this season.
* * *
TO TELL THE TRUTH: Houston's Charles Barkley, on his suburban digs: "I
live so far out of town, I feel like I'm on the Ponderosa. The other
day, I saw Hoss and Little Joe and Ben Cartwright behind my house."
-- The Clippers' Brent Barry on the rehabilitation of his sprained
left thumb: "I did some work with some silly putty. I think I was
supposed to squeeze the silly putty, but I kept making impressions of
the newspaper comics."
-- Blazers president Bob Whitsitt on police allegations Isaiah Rider
was found smoking marijuana from a soda can in a parked car by an
Oregon highway: "I'm not saying it's good, but there are different
degrees of bad."
* * *
NUMBERS: 72 points by the Utah Jazz in a loss to Houston on Monday,
eradicating the franchise record of 74 set in its first game in 1974,
when the team was in New Orleans.
-- 33 rebounds by Charles Barkley in his return to Phoenix, three more
than the entire Suns team.
-- 30 points by rookie Allen Iverson in his pro debut, most ever by a
Sixer in his first game. Previous best: Jerry Stackhouse, 27, last
year. The pro debuts of some who went on to be stars: Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar, 29; Elvin Hayes, 25; Oscar Robertson, 21; Michael
Jordan, 16; Larry Bird, 14.
-- The Lakers' Kobe Bryant became the youngest player ever to set foot
in an NBA game at 18 years, two months and 11 days, beating out
Stanley Brown (18 years, four months), Bill Willoughby (18 years, five
months) and Darryl Dawkins (18 years, nine months). Bryant won't hold
the mark long. Jermaine O'Neal of the Trail Blazers, currently on the
injured list, is seven weeks younger.
nba.1452vpoznanovic,
It's a boy for Nets coach
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (Nov 12, 1996 - 23:30 EST) -- New Jersey Nets
coach John Calipari and his wife may have themselves a power forward.
Calipari's wife Ellen gave birth Monday to their third child,
10-pound, 7-ounce Bradley Vincent Calipari, at Valley Hospital in
Ridgewood.
The baby arrived two days after the Nets returned from a team trip to
Japan, which Calipari missed so he could be with his expecting wife.
"Mother and child are doing well," said Nets spokesman John Mertz.
Calipari said the baby was not named after the team's center Shawn
Bradley or recently traded swingman Vincent Askew. Rather, Calipari
said, his wife chose the name Bradley, and the name Vincent came from
his father.
The Caliparis have two other children, both girls.
Calipari signed a five-year, $15 million contract with the Nets in
June to be coach and head of basketball operations. He spent the
previous eight years at the University of Massachusetts, leading the
Minutemen to a 193-71 record and a berth in the NCAA Final Four last
season.
nba.1453vpoznanovic,
Raptors waive Benjamin
TORONTO (Nov 12, 1996 - 20:18 EST) -- Center Benoit Benjamin was
waived Tuesday by the Toronto Raptors, the NBA team announced.
Benjamin, who was signed as a free agent by the Raptors on Oct. 11,
averaged 3.3 points, 2.3 rebounds and 11 minutes in four games this
season. The 7-foot center was a starter in three of his four
appearances.
The Raptors' active roster now stands at 11.
nba.1454vpoznanovic,
McCaw takes over control of Canucks, Grizzlies
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Nov 12, 1996 - 23:18 EST) -- Seattle
businessman John McCaw Jr. has taken over full control of the
Vancouver Canucks and Grizzlies.
The chairman of Orca Bay, the company that controls the NHL and NBA
teams plus GM Place arena, had been a partner with Arthur Griffiths,
whose family bought control of the Canucks in the '70s.
McCaw agreed Tuesday to purchase all remaining shares in Orca Bay held
by Griffiths, giving him full control of the two franchises as well as
the arena.
With the financial help of McCaw, a childhood friend, Griffiths
brought the NBA to Vancouver last year in a new arena that also housed
the Canucks.
"Arthur set out with a dream and accomplished both of those goals,"
McCaw said. "I hope people don't lose sight of those accomplishments
taken at great personal risk."
McCaw said Griffiths came to him this week about a buyout and "looking
for a way to diversify his holdings."
Griffiths originally had an estimated 40 percent stake in Orca Bay,
but media reports had his share dropping as low as 10 percent in
recent months. McCaw and Griffiths both refused to disclose details of
the transaction.
McCaw immediately named Griffiths vice chairman and alternate governor
of both franchises.
McCaw now owns 100 percent of Orca Bay Arena Ltd., 100 percent of Orca
Bay Basketball Ltd. and 72 percent of Northwest Sports Enterprises
Ltd., which owns the Canucks. McCaw also has the right to acquire an
additional 14 percent of outstanding shares in Northwest Sports.
Orca Bay also owns the Vancouver VooDoo of Roller Hockey International
and is a partner of the Greater Vancouver Open on the PGA Tour.
nba.1455vpoznanovic,
Coming home again not the same for Cheaney
INDIANAPOLIS (Nov 12, 1996 - 08:48 EST) -- No roar, just applause that
is barely beyond polite. The heart strings are still connected, but
they pull harder in one direction, and softer in another.
Calbert Cheaney is introduced into an NBA starting lineup in Indiana,
but it is for the Washington Bullets and not the Indiana Pacers.
Enough time has passed. The fans put their hands together, but are
careful not to offend Dale Davis, much less Reggie Miller.
Cheaney is Indiana University's and the Big Ten's all-time leading
scorer. He was college basketball's national player of the year as a
senior. He still wears No. 40. But, somehow, things just don't add up
the same.
Time and circumstance have moved his place. He is, almost suddenly,
the relatively distant IU star who now comes into Market Square Arena
to try and beat the Pacers.
But understand: When he was a rookie, the Pacers knew nothing of
pulsating playoff runs. Then, the place went wild for Calbert Cheaney
like Indiana was about to play Michigan for the Big Ten championship.
Now, Cheaney starts his fourth season in Bullet red. They still love
Calbert, but it's more like the love for a member of your extended
family. It used to be like the love for a son.
Playing for IU was another life. Hated Wolverines Chris Webber and
Juwan Howard are now Cheaney's family -- and perhaps will be for many
years to come. And the formerly detestable Jalen Rose -- Michigan's
main mouth -- is a supposed good guy in Indiana white.
But it gets stranger still.
Somebody named Fred Hoiberg, who is somebody short, somebody with
close blond hair, somebody who never was better as an eighth grader
than Steve Alford was as an IU senior, comes off the Pacers' bench --
Damon Bailey's hypothetical job -- and gets a louder cheer than
Calbert Cheaney.
Yes, they just go corn-shucking mad for those former Iowa State
Cyclones here in Hoosierland. Once the Pacemates start dancing and
Boomer starts bouncing off his trampoline, they'll cheer any and all
things Pacer -- make some noise, Fred HoIberg's in the game!
So guess what? Calbert Cheaney isn't breathless when he comes home to
play basketball. He leaves his 20 free passes for family and friends,
battles Reggie Miller for a night, earns Reggie's praise -- "He was
forcing me into situations where I couldn't shoot" -- and then catches
a late dinner, a plane, and a couple of days later he and two-fifths
of the Fab Five do it again with the Detroit Pistons.
Bob Knight screams, Calbert Cheaney doesn't hear him, and life goes
on.
Glad you're home, Calbert, but save your points for somebody else, OK?
"Just another game," Cheaney said before going out and scoring 10 and
holding Miller to 16 in a 103-100 overtime loss. "See some family,
some friends, and that's good, but it's just normal."
What isn't normal is losing. That's what Cheaney's been doing for
three years. The last time the Bullets had a winning record -- the
1986-87 season -- Cheaney was in high school in Evansville, Ind. This
is the side effect of being the No. 6 pick overall in the 1993 NBA
Draft: You join a team that just lost 60 games, and will lose 58, 61,
and 43 games in the first half of your six-year contract.
This doesn't happen to Fred Hoiberg.
"You just have to be patient," said Cheaney. "You grow up winning all
the time and it's kind of disappointing" losing all the time.
Probably, those days are going, going, gone. Howard was an all-star
last year, and Webber is just one healthy season away from becoming
one, too. Which is why in August when the Bullets signed Howard to a
contract that runs through the 2002-2003 season, coach Jim Lynam said:
"I'm looking forward to this season more than anything I have ever
done in my whole life."
With Saturday's defeat -- a game the Bullets really should have won
--they are 2-3. But more telling, they're committed to a nucleus of
forwards Webber and Howard, guards Cheaney and Rod Strickland, and 7-7
center Gheorghe Muresan.
Losing doesn't have to be normal. They will win some of the close
ones, too.
"If we learn from one another, we can be very good," Cheaney said. "If
we can get that right, the sky's the limit for our team."
His team, the Washington Bullets. Three cheers for Fred Hoiberg and
Iowa State.
nba.1456vpoznanovic,
Chaney tutors Knicks Kids
He has done just about everything there is to do in the NBA, but even
Don Chaney has to admit that his new role with the New York Knicks is
a little "out of the ordinary."
Chaney, who was synonymous with defensive excellence during his
12-year NBA career and later captured a Coach of the Year award during
his nine-year head-coaching tenure, is now responsible for grooming
the Knicks Kids: rookies John Wallace, Walter McCarty and Dontae
Jones.
"I'm the babysitter," Chaney says with a laugh.
Life in the NBA is difficult, and no one knows that better than
Chaney, who played for two of history's most glorified teams -- the
Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers -- and coached some of the most
insipid -- the Los Angeles Clippers and Detroit Pistons (post-Isiah
Thomas Era).
So when the Knicks' front office and coaching staff pulled off one of
the greatest draft heists in history by snagging the equivalent of
three Top 10 picks with the 18th, 19th and 21st selections, the
organization figured it needed a top-flight, experienced NBA man to
bring these players along.
The call went to Chaney, who has spent 28 of his 50 years on earth in
the NBA and was a member of two world champion Celtic teams, 1969 and
1974.
"I love it," Chaney says of working with the kids. "They're great guys
and are willing to learn, see their mistakes and adjust to improve."
Chaney pulls the three rookies together at least three times a week to
review film of their most recent performances. "At first I thought
it'd be tough to get them all to sit down and watch tape, but they
look forward to it."
Even if one of the players hasn't played in the previous game -- and
Jones has been out all season with a bad foot -- the trio meets
regardless.
"That's because they found they can still all learn from each other,"
says Chaney. "Even if only one guy plays and makes mistakes, they can
all benefit."
Predictably, it's been Wallace who has adjusted the quickest to the
NBA lifestyle.
"That's mainly because he's played the most," Chaney says. "He's
really come a long way in a short period of time. He struggled badly
in summer camp. He had a lot of weaknesses we were aware of, but we
were unaware they were so bad. His defense was really bad, but he's
improved, and I believe it's partly because of the film critiquing
we've done.
"Offensively he's been tremendous. He's given us tremendous energy on
the offensive end. To me, the most important thing for a rookie to
learn is what he can and can't do. John has and he's benefited from
it."
Chaney is still stunned the Knicks were able to grab Wallace with the
18th pick in the draft.
"We were just lucky that other teams, for some reason, were afraid of
him," he says. "We were a little hesitant because we didn't know what
we were getting. But we're elated with him, his attitude, his work
ethic.
"He's going to be a super player. He's easily a Top 10 pick."
While Wallace has been stellar on offense, McCarty has been brilliant
on defense.
"They're complete opposites as far as their strengths go," Chaney
says. "So just from that respect, they've helped each other improve on
their weaknesses."
Wallace, who scored in double figures in each of the Knicks' first
five games, has come along so rapidly, "he points out his mistakes
before I do," Chaney says. "That's amazed me. That shows how much he
cares and how much he wants to learn."
nba.1457schef,
-> #1435, vpoznanovic=- CHARLOTTE (97) AT MIAMI (105)
DIVAC C 38 11-17 0-0 2 11 13 2 5 2 4 22
Bogami :) ovu je Divac odlično odigrao. ;) Šta se bre bunite na njega? :)
Možda je imao motivaciju protiv Danilovića? ;)
DANILOVIC G 29 6-9 4-5 0 3 3 2 4 1 0 17
A i Saša mu ne ostade dužan. :) Uostalom, Miami je pobedio. ;)
nba.1458basrak,
-> #1429, junior> Meni ovako savršeno odgovara, jer su poruke savršeno pregledne.
> Mnogo preglednije nego da skidam fajl pa da ga onda pregledam.
>
> Uz to, u SORu imam mogućnost i da sačuvam poruke koje me
> zanimaju, dok u onom slučaj to ne bih mogao.
Telegram podrške i od mene ;) iz istih razloga.
Ako mislite da me to sve zanima, onda se varate jer u 99% slučajeva čitam samo
one tekstove i izveštaje sa utakmica u kojima igraju naši i ex-naši košarkaši
(ne računajući rezultate koje onako skipujući sve pogledam). Šta me ne zanima,
lupim zvezdicu, a šta me zanima pročitam, a ponekad i ostavim. Mislim da je
tako lakše nego da se iz fajla čupa ono što ti treba, naročito ako želiš nešto
od svega toga i da ostaviš...
nba.1459dizel,
-> #1431, superhik** A gde je Đorđević, je l' igra on uopšte...?
Povređen! Neće igrati 4-5 nedelja.
nba.1460vpoznanovic,
Eh, šta su ti moderne komunikacije... Internet... :) Dragi moji
Sezamovci, evo ja se upravo vratio sa razgovora s Magicom Johnsonom. :)
Bio je to "live from Atlanta" razgovor preko IRC-a, u kojem je Magic, u
svom debitantskom nastupu, iz nekog od studija CNN-a čitav sat odgovarao
na pitanja zainteresovanih iz cijelog svijeta. Nažalost, upao sam pred
sam kraj, tek da naslutim o čemu je bilo riječi i da osjetim atmosferu.
U trenutku kad sam se uključio bila su 122 korisnika na kanalu, a do
kraja se broj samo povećavao. Chat je bio moderisan, tako da se pitanja
nisu mogla postavljati direktno, već isključivo preko moderatora,
novinara sportske redakcije CNN-a, Freda Hickmana, koji će, uzgred budi
rečeno, biti jedan od glavnih voditelja 24-časovnog sportskog programa
pod nazivom CNN/SI, koji počinje u decembru ove godine.
Uglavnom, ono što sam uspio čuti pomalo me iznenadilo. Zapravo, način na
koji je Magic odgovarao za mene je bio neočekivan. Izgleda da je u
čitavom razgovoru bilo prisutno dosta emocija (onaj dio koji sam slušao,
a u kojem je govorio o starim vremenima, bio je vrlo sentimentalan), koje
su sigurno bile izazvane dobro smišljenim pitanjima. Možda i griješim,
možda je ostatak razgovora protekao u drugačijem tonu, ali takav je bio
utisak koji sam ja stekao. Nekome tu možda neće biti ništa neobično,
čovjek na kraju krajeva već godinama boluje od neizlječive bolesti, ali
ja sam do sada uglavnom navikao da ga viđam nasmijanog i spremnog za
šalu, a i nekako mi takvo raspoloženje ne priliči razgovoru putem takvog
medija, pred više od stotinu, mahom mlađih slušalaca.
Žao mi je što vam ovom prilikom ne mogu prenijeti ništa konkretno, bio
sam premalo prisutan da bih mogao da napravim neki rezime onoga o čemu je
Magic govorio. Očekivao sam da će moderator na kraju dati obavještenje
gdje će se na Webu moći naći transcript razgovora, što je česta praksa
kad su u pitanju takva dešavanja na IRC-u, ali nažalost ništa slično nisu
spomenuli. Dali su samo dvije adrese na kojima će se moći čuti u
RealAudio formatu.
Pokušao sam i nekoga da pitam da mi pošalje svoj log, ali se po završetku
stvorila takva gužva da je sve to bilo nemoguće pratiti. Za svega
nekoliko sekundi bi se napunio čitav ekran, tako da se sve nije moglo čak
ni pročitati u realnom vremenu. Bilo je tu raznih komentara... neki su
bili nezadovoljni što na njihova pitanja nije odgovoremo, drugi su bili
presrećni što na njihova jeste :), treći su lupetali kojekakve gluposti,
četvrti "lupali glavom o zid" što su pomiješali vremenske zone i
zakasnili. ;)
U svakom slučaju, ako na neki način nabavim razgovor u tekstualnom
obliku, poslaću ga.
nba.1461vpoznanovic,
ATLANTA (85) AT BOSTON (103)
ATLANTA
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
LAETTNER F 36 11-15 2-4 4 9 13 8 2 3 4 27
CORBIN F 36 5-11 0-2 2 4 6 2 3 0 3 11
MUTOMBO C 30 2-3 2-4 1 7 8 3 2 0 4 6
BLAYLOCK G 12 1-4 0-0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 3
BOYCE G 17 3-7 1-2 0 1 1 2 3 1 1 8
BARRY 38 5-13 3-4 2 3 5 5 2 4 4 17
BURTON 22 1-7 3-4 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 5
NEWBILL 18 1-3 0-0 3 2 5 0 2 1 2 2
RECASNER 31 2-13 1-2 2 0 2 2 1 0 5 6
ALSTON DNP - DID NOT DRESS
HENDERSON DNP - GASTROINTESTINAL FLU
SMITH DNP - SPRAINED RIGHT ANKLE
TOTALS 240 31-76 12-22 14 27 41 24 18 10 25 85
(.408) (.545) TEAM REBS: 8 TOTAL TO: 27(32 PTS)
BOSTON
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
WALKER F 28 6-12 0-0 1 6 7 6 3 0 5 15
WILLIAMS F 25 3-4 4-7 1 4 5 3 2 1 0 10
RADJA C 27 3-7 4-5 2 5 7 1 3 2 3 10
WESLEY G 40 7-12 0-0 1 1 2 5 4 3 3 16
FOX G 25 4-5 4-4 0 6 6 4 3 3 4 12
BARROS 33 7-15 0-0 0 1 1 4 0 2 3 18
DAY 17 2-10 0-0 4 2 6 1 2 0 1 4
CONLON 20 3-7 0-0 1 2 3 2 3 0 3 6
BRICKOWSKI 9 4-4 0-0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 10
SZABO 10 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 1 1 1 0 0
DRIGGERS 6 0-1 2-2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 2
ELLISON DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 39-78 14-18 11 33 44 27 21 12 22 103
(.500) (.778) TEAM REBS: 5 TOTAL TO: 25(22 PTS)
ATLANTA 22 22 21 20 - 85
BOSTON 41 21 23 18 - 103
BLOCKED SHOTS: ATLANTA - BOYCE 3, MUTOMBO, BURTON. BOSTON - WALKER, FOX,
BARROS, DRIGGERS.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: ATLANTA 11-27 (.407), LAETTNER 3-5, CORBIN 1-2,
BLAYLOCK 1-2, BOYCE 1-3, BARRY 4-6, BURTON 0-4, RECASNER 1-5. BOSTON 11-21
(.524), WALKER 3-5, WESLEY 2-4, BARROS 4-9, DAY 0-1, BRICKOWSKI 2-2.
TECHNICALS: NONE.
OFFICIALS: MIKE MATHIS, TOMMY NUNEZ, WOODY MAYFIELD.
A - 13,184. T - 2:00.
ATLANTA (85) AT BOSTON (103)
Dana Barros came off the bench to score 18 points, all in the
first half, and David Wesley added 16 as the Boston Celtics
defeated the Atlanta Hawks for the first time in seven attempts
with a 103-85 rout.
Rookie Antoine Walker tacked on 15 points for the Celtics, who
had lost 19 of their last 23 games against Atlanta. Boston
(2-4), which had lost four of its last five overall, held an
opponent under 100 points for just the second time this season,
winning both.
"That's my job to come off the bench and hit some shots," said
Barros. "It's like a snowball effect. We had it going in the
first half and just kept it going."
Christian Laettner scored 27 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and
handed out eight assists for the Hawks (4-4), who won all four
meetings with the Celtics last season and four of its last five
games overall this season.
Atlanta guard Mookie Blaylock, who is nursing a sore right ankle
played only 12 minutes. Blaylock's backcourt partner Steve
Smith, who leads the team with 19.2 points per game, has a
sprained ankle and did not accompany the team to Boston.
"They put the trap on us," said Laettner. "We didn't have our
starting guards out there and it showed. We needed to rely on
people coming off the bench. When people are down and injured,
you have to step up, we didn't do that tonight."
Laettner hit 11-of-15 from the field, but his teammates were not
nearly as accurate, connecting on just 20-of-61. Jon Barry had
17 points and five assists for the Hawks. Atlanta committed 25
turnovers.
"The Celtics tried to push the ball and they do a good job of
the that, so you've got to give them credit, said Hawks coach
Lenny Wilkens. "But what I can't take is the turnovers. We had
just way to many turnovers and that to me is intolerable,
because they're missed opportunities. Maybe its me, maybe I
expect a lot. I know Steve is not out there and I know Mookie
isn't there."
Laettner hit a jumper at 11:40 of the first period to open the
scoring and give Atlanta its only lead of the game. The Hawks
were within a basket at 10-8 when Boston went on a 17-6 run,
capped by Barros' three-pointer with 3:52 left. The Celtics
then closed out the period with a 9-0 burst to make it 41-22.
Barros also keyed a 13-3 second-quarter spurt that took it to
54-31 with 6:40 remaining in the half. Boston led 62-44 at
halftime.
We need to come out like we did tonight, every night," said
Boston coach M.L. Carr.
The Celtics put it away with a 12-5 run to open the second half
as Walker's layup made it 74-49 with 6:41 remaining. Barry's
three-pointer closed the Hawks to 82-65 with 58 seconds to go in
the period, but Atlanta got no closer in the second half.
nba.1462vpoznanovic,
DENVER (94) AT DETROIT (95) - FINAL IN OT
DENVER
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
D ELLIS F 51 7-21 2-2 2 2 4 4 5 0 3 20
MCDYESS F 41 9-17 2-4 2 6 8 1 5 0 3 20
JOHNSON C 35 2-7 0-0 0 8 8 1 4 1 0 4
JACKSON G 41 5-11 2-3 3 4 7 13 1 1 2 15
STITH G 26 3-8 0-0 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 6
MURDOCK 13 2-3 0-0 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 4
MARCIULIONIS 21 3-5 2-2 0 0 0 4 3 3 4 10
HAMMONDS 26 1-4 4-4 1 6 7 0 2 0 0 6
HAM 3 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
PIERCE 8 2-5 2-2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 7
MCINNIS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
THOMPSON DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 265 35-82 14-17 8 30 38 25 24 6 13 94
(.427) (.824) TEAM REBS: 11 TOTAL TO: 14(12 PTS)
DETROIT
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
HILL F 43 9-22 8-10 1 5 6 2 2 2 0 27
LONG F 34 2-10 3-6 6 3 9 2 3 1 2 7
THORPE C 45 7-15 1-1 6 8 14 1 2 0 4 15
HUNTER G 39 8-13 0-1 0 5 5 2 5 0 0 16
DUMARS G 45 6-11 3-3 0 3 3 5 2 1 2 17
REID 8 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 2
MILLS 19 2-4 0-0 1 5 6 0 3 1 1 6
CURRY 9 0-1 0-0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
AUGMON 14 0-4 0-0 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 0
SMITH 9 2-4 0-0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 5
MAHORN DNP - COACH'S DECISION
RATLIFF DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 265 37-86 15-21 15 31 46 14 21 5 11 95
(.430) (.714) TEAM REBS: 10 TOTAL TO: 13(12 PTS)
DENVER 14 21 27 26 6 - 94
DETROIT 16 21 32 19 7 - 95
BLOCKED SHOTS: DENVER - JOHNSON 3, MCDYESS, HAMMONDS. DETROIT - HILL.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: DENVER 10-17 (.588), D ELLIS 4-10, JACKSON 3-4,
MARCIULIONIS 2-2, PIERCE 1-1. DETROIT 6-12 (.500), HILL 1-1, HUNTER 0-2,
DUMARS 2-3, MILLS 2-3, CURRY 0-1, SMITH 1-2.
TECHNICALS: NONE.
OFFICIALS: PAUL MIHALAK, SCOTT FOSTER, MIKE CALLAHAN.
A - 13,717. T - 2:25.
DENVER (94) AT DETROIT (95) - FINAL IN OT
Grant Hill scored 27 points, including a pair of free throws
with 5.5 seconds left in overtime, to lead the Detroit Pistons
to a 95-94 victory over the Denver Nuggets for their sixth win
in seven games.
Hill took an inbound pass inside the paint and was fouled by
Antonio McDyess as he was taking a short jumper. After Hill
sank both shots, Bryant Stith tried to dribble through a
double-team team and lost the ball out of bounds.
"That was just a grind-it-out win," said Detroit coach Doug
Collins. "In the first half our guys were very sluggish. I
told our guys that when you look back on it at the end of the
season these are the kind of games you have to find a way to win
and we did."
Detroit is off to its best start since winning the first eight
game of the 1988-89 season, which ended with their first NBA
championship.
"We started out fast and we hope to keep it up," Hill said. "The
game tonight was not very pretty. It was almost playoff style,
a lot of defense and a lot of mistakes. I like to have the ball
in my hands at the end of the game. It feels like you can
control the outcome. It feels good that your teammates and
coaches are looking for you."
McDyess had 20 points and eight rebounds and Dale Ellis added 20
points as the Nuggets fell to 1-2 on their five-game road trip.
The game featured 17 lead changes and 12 ties.
"This is a pretty good basketball team," said Denver coach
Bernie Bickerstaff. "We're a good basketball team too but we
haven't realized that yet. Our mistakes our compounded. In the
first half especially, we played enthusiastic and energized."
McDyess made a layup to give the Nuggets a 90-88 lead 36 seconds
into the overtime. The Pistons tied it Lindsey Hunter's
10-footer with just over four minutes left. Neither team scored
until Hill made a free throw to give Detroit a 91-90 edge with
1:44 left.
"I knew Grant was tired at the end of the game when he was
pulling up and shooting jump shots," Collins said. "I thought
our initial defense was good in a lot of situations."
Mark Jackson tossed an alley-oop to McDyess, who dunked to give
the Nuggets a 92-91 edge with 1:32 to go. Jackson had 15 points
and 13 assists.
"We outplayed them down the stretch but some tough calls went
their way and not ours," Jackson said. "I've been on teams
where you get the calls and on some where they go against you.
It's very frustatating because this was our game to win. I
thought some of the calls tonight made a difference. We're
happy with the way we played. If we can play this well every
night, we'll beat a lot of teams."
Dumars made a 16-footer as the Pistons regained the lead, 93-92,
with 31 seconds left. Ellis returned and sank a six-footer over
Dumars for Denver's final lead with 19.7 seconds left.
Neither team had more than a four-point lead in the first half
and the Pistons held a 37-35 edge at the intermission.
"I played a lot of guys in the first half," Collins said. "I got
10 in hoping that I could buy some time."
Hill began and ended an 8-2 run as he made a 13-footer with 7:30
left in the fourth quarter to give the Pistons their biggest
lead of the game, 78-67. Sarunas Marciulionis made a layup and a
three-pointer that closed a 10-0 spurt and pulled the Nuggets
within 78-77 with 4:44 left.
Hill made two free throws with 4:22 left to give Detroit an
80-77 lead but Ellis answered with a jumper just 12 seconds
later.
A pair of free throws by Hill gave Detroit an 82-79 lead with
3:52 left in the fourth. Marciulionis sank a three-pointer to
tie the score, 82-82, at the three-minute mark. It was the
first time Denver tied the score since it was 29-29 with 2:39
left in the second.
Grant Long made a free throw to give Detroit an 83-82 edge with
2:45 remaining and Otis Thorpe's turnaround jumper made it a
three-point game with 1:40 left. The Nuggets tied the score
again as Jackson hit a three-pointer with 1:23 left. Dumars
answered with a three-pointer with 1:03 to go to give Detroit an
88-85 advantage.
Jackson made his third three-pointer of the game with 40.6
seconds remaining in regulation tying the score again. Hill
missed a 14-footer as time ran out.
nba.1463vpoznanovic,
LA LAKERS (83) AT SAN ANTONIO (95)
LA LAKERS
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
CEBALLOS F 34 2-7 0-0 2 1 3 2 2 1 1 4
CAMPBELL F 22 1-4 0-0 3 3 6 1 3 2 2 2
ONEAL C 37 11-15 8-11 4 6 10 1 2 0 6 30
JONES G 40 8-19 1-2 0 2 2 1 3 2 1 22
VAN EXEL G 34 1-8 0-0 0 2 2 8 2 0 6 2
SCOTT 23 2-4 5-6 0 3 3 4 2 1 2 10
ROOKS 4 0-3 0-0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0
FISHER 14 1-4 0-0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 3
BLOUNT 15 1-3 0-0 2 2 4 0 2 0 1 2
BRYANT 6 2-2 1-1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 6
ROBINSON 9 1-7 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 2
KNIGHT 2 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 240 30-76 15-20 13 21 34 18 21 9 23 83
(.395) (.750) TEAM REBS: 12 TOTAL TO: 23(26 PTS)
SAN ANTONIO
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
ELLIOTT F 45 5-11 3-4 1 6 7 11 4 1 5 14
D WILKINS F 38 10-19 4-5 6 5 11 4 0 2 2 28
ANDERSON C 24 2-2 0-0 1 7 8 1 5 4 3 4
MAXWELL G 40 9-20 1-2 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 22
JOHNSON G 39 7-11 2-2 1 2 3 10 1 3 1 16
KEMPTON 13 0-1 0-0 1 2 3 1 0 0 3 0
M WILLIAMS 11 1-3 0-4 1 4 5 0 1 0 3 2
ALEXANDER 9 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 0
HERRERA 21 4-7 1-2 4 2 6 0 4 2 0 9
DEL NEGRO DNP - LEFT KNEE AND ANKLE
W PERDUE DNP - LEFT THUMB
SMITH DNP - RIGHT KNEE
TOTALS 240 38-75 11-19 15 28 43 29 19 13 20 95
(.507) (.579) TEAM REBS: 7 TOTAL TO: 22(14 PTS)
LA LAKERS 20 18 17 28 - 83
SAN ANTONIO 22 30 21 22 - 95
BLOCKED SHOTS: LA LAKERS - ONEAL 4, CEBALLOS 2. SAN ANTONIO - D WILKINS
2, ANDERSON 2, M WILLIAMS 2, KEMPTON.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: LA LAKERS 8-23 (.348), CEBALLOS 0-1, JONES 5-10, VAN
EXEL 0-2, SCOTT 1-3, FISHER 1-3, BRYANT 1-1, ROBINSON 0-3. SAN ANTONIO
8-20 (.400), ELLIOTT 1-3, D WILKINS 4-9, MAXWELL 3-8.
TECHNICALS: LA LAKERS - ILLEGAL DEFENSE 2, SAN ANTONIO - ILLEGAL DEFENSE 2.
OFFICIALS: ED MIDDLETON, TERRY DURHAM, TONY BROTHERS.
A - 26,002. T - 2:09.
LA LAKERS (83) AT SAN ANTONIO (95)
Dominique Wilkins scored 18 of his season-high 28 points in the
first half and Vernon Maxwell added 22 points as the undermanned
San Antonio Spurs surprised the Los Angeles Lakers, 95-83.
The loss could prove to be a costly one for Los Angeles (5-3).
Lakers forward Cedric Ceballos was carried off the floor on a
stretcher with 3:48 remaining after suffering a partial tear of
his right patella tendon.
Ceballos will be examined Thursday in Los Angeles by team
physician Dr. Steve Lombardo. Ceballos had four points and
three rebounds in 34 minutes.
Wilkins also grabbed 11 rebounds for San Antonio, which snapped
a three-game losing streak, despite playing without three
starters. Forward Charles Smith and guard Vinny Del Negro sat
out with knee injuries and center David Robinson has missed
every game this season with back problems. The Spurs will be
without Robinson for at least another week.
Shaquille O'Neal had 30 points and 10 rebounds and Eddie Jones
added 22 points for the Lakers, who were coming off Tuesday's
double-overtime win against Houston. Los Angeles has lost seven
straight regular-season games in San Antonio and has never won
in the AlamoDome.
"It was David vs. Goliath tonight," said Spurs point guard Avery
Johnson, who had 16 points and 10 assists. "We were staring 1-6
in the face, however David won tonight. Goliath was on the floor
unconscious."
"They played their game, getting the ball into Shaq," said Spurs
center Greg Anderson. "We had energy tonight. Personally, my
goal was to keep Shaq out of the paint. He'll get his points and
boards, but you have to make him earn his shots."
The Spurs (2-5) surpassed 81 points for just the second time
this season. San Antonio led by as many as 20 points on
Maxwell's layup at 2:19 of the third quarter.
"We were dragging and tired and a step slow," said Lakers guard
Byron Scott. "There were no excuses for the loss. We weren't as
mentally prepared as we should have been. San Antonio was ready,
we weren't."
O'Neal's hook pulled the Lakers within 54-48 with 8:43 to go in
third quarter. But the Spurs went on a 10-0 run capped by a
three-pointer from Wilkins.
"Obviously we need to do a better job on back-to-back games,
because we have eight more this season," said Los Angeles coach
Del Harris. "Our timing was bad. It got worse as the game went
on tonight."
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MIAMI (71) AT CHICAGO (103)
MIAMI
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MAJERLE F 23 1-6 0-0 0 3 3 4 5 0 1 3
THOMAS F 17 0-3 1-2 0 6 6 0 6 0 2 1
MOURNING C 34 7-16 6-11 1 5 6 0 5 0 2 20
DANILOVIC G 36 4-10 2-2 0 1 1 1 3 1 4 10
HARDAWAY G 34 2-10 3-5 1 3 4 4 2 0 1 8
BROWN 26 5-8 2-4 2 6 8 0 3 1 3 12
ASKINS 16 2-4 0-0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 5
GRANT 16 2-5 0-0 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 4
AUSTIN 19 3-6 0-0 0 3 3 1 2 0 1 6
LENARD 14 1-5 0-0 2 2 4 2 0 0 0 2
STRICKLAND 5 0-2 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0
PINCKNEY DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 27-75 14-24 7 32 39 14 32 2 15 71
(.360) (.583) TEAM REBS: 8 TOTAL TO: 15(22 PTS)
CHICAGO
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
PIPPEN F 37 5-14 2-2 2 4 6 2 3 2 2 12
RODMAN F 30 0-3 2-2 5 14 19 2 1 0 1 2
LONGLEY C 23 3-7 2-4 2 5 7 3 5 0 0 8
HARPER G 21 1-5 0-0 0 2 2 3 1 1 0 2
JORDAN G 34 8-23 12-16 1 4 5 3 3 1 0 28
KUKOC 31 11-14 4-4 0 4 4 4 1 0 2 26
CAFFEY 9 2-2 5-6 0 3 3 2 2 0 0 9
KERR 26 3-5 1-2 0 0 0 1 3 2 1 10
BROWN 14 3-6 0-0 0 1 1 4 1 0 1 6
WENNINGTON 7 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
BUECHLER 8 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
PARISH DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 36-80 28-36 10 38 48 25 21 6 7 103
(.450) (.778) TEAM REBS: 15 TOTAL TO: 7(6 PTS)
MIAMI 18 20 13 20 - 71
CHICAGO 21 25 27 30 - 103
BLOCKED SHOTS: MIAMI - MOURNING 3. CHICAGO - LONGLEY 2, RODMAN.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: MIAMI 3-16 (.188), MAJERLE 1-4, DANILOVIC 0-1, HARDAWAY
1-4, ASKINS 1-2, GRANT 0-1, LENARD 0-3, STRICKLAND 0-1. CHICAGO 3-7
(.429), HARPER 0-1, JORDAN 0-1, KUKOC 0-1, KERR 3-4.
TECHNICALS: CHICAGO - PIPPEN, LONGLEY.
OFFICIALS: DICK BAVETTA, KEN MAUER, MIKE SMITH.
A - 23,889. T - 2:07.
MIAMI (71) AT CHICAGO (103)
Michael Jordan scored 28 points and Toni Kukoc added 26 as the
Chicago Bulls extended the best start in franchise history and
remained the league's only unbeaten team with a 103-71 rout of
the Miami Heat.
Kukoc and Jordan keyed a 13-5 run to start the second half,
scoring six and five points respectively, as the Bulls opened a
59-43 advantage. Chicago sealed the victory with a 12-2 spurt
later in the period.
"Phil has a lot of faith in me this year coming off the bench,"
Kukoc said. "They trust me to shoot the ball and I have been
making the majority of my shots, but everything starts with our
defense and we were able to shut down their offense tonight."
The Bulls, who completed a sweep of their three-game homestand,
have won their first eight games and are ahead of last-season's
pace, when they won a record 72 games.
"Tonight, I was pleased that we got out of the locker room, out
to the floor, played a good first half," Bulls coach Phil
Jackson said. "It was the kind of game where we had to grind it
out for three quarters and then the dam broke loose for us."
Alonzo Mourning led Miami with 20 points and P.J. Brown added
12. The Heat have won five of seven games this season, with both
losses coming to Chicago.
"This was like a highlight film," Heat coach Pat Riley said. "It
was a defensive clinic that they put on. We had no energy from
the start. We must have left everything in the win last night
at Charlotte."
"They just dominated us," Riley added. "The difference in the
game was Kukoc. He was hot even though we were able to shut down
Pippen and Jordan by percentages."
The Bulls won five of the last six meetings with the Heat and
are 27-5 all-time against Miami. They have also won the last
five games in Chicago and are 14-2 at home against the Heat.
Both teams shot poorly in the first quarter as the Bulls held a
21-18 lead. Jordan was just 2-of-9 from the field but led all
scorers with nine points.
Mourning had a big second quarter with eight points but Kukoc
and Jordan combined for 14, as Chicago extended its advantage to
46-38 by halftime.
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PHILADELPHIA (98) AT TORONTO (110)
PHILADELPHIA
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
WEATHERSPOON F 41 12-15 2-2 5 4 9 1 2 0 1 26
COLEMAN F 37 5-11 6-8 3 2 5 5 4 1 4 16
WILLIAMS C 16 1-2 0-0 1 2 3 0 3 1 2 2
STACKHOUSE G 35 6-21 4-4 3 4 7 3 4 2 3 19
IVERSON G 44 8-18 3-6 2 0 2 3 1 1 5 24
CAGE 10 0-1 0-0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
HARRIS 18 1-7 0-0 0 1 1 2 2 2 0 2
DAVIS 32 2-4 2-4 1 3 4 1 4 4 4 7
OVERTON 4 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0
BRADTKE 3 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
MACLEAN DNP - TENDINITIS RIGHT KNEE
WALTERS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 36-80 17-24 16 19 35 17 21 11 19 98
(.450) (.708) TEAM REBS: 8 TOTAL TO: 20(25 PTS)
TORONTO
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
WILLIAMS F 43 7-14 3-4 2 7 9 3 3 2 5 22
JONES F 31 2-3 2-2 7 7 14 1 4 0 2 6
CAMBY C 31 9-14 5-5 1 2 3 1 5 1 4 23
CHRISTIE G 39 3-10 2-2 3 4 7 4 3 1 1 10
STOUDAMIRE G 42 8-28 3-3 3 1 4 12 3 4 7 21
ROGERS 25 8-12 2-2 5 5 10 0 2 1 0 20
DAVIS 9 1-3 2-2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 4
WHITESIDE 6 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0
WRIGHT 3 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
EARL 11 1-5 2-2 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 4
HUGHES DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TABAK DNP - SORE LEFT HEEL
TOTALS 240 39-90 21-22 22 29 51 23 24 10 23 110
(.433) (.955) TEAM REBS: 9 TOTAL TO: 25(30 PTS)
PHILADELPHIA 23 21 22 32 - 98
TORONTO 23 24 35 28 - 110
BLOCKED SHOTS: PHILADELPHIA - STACKHOUSE 2, IVERSON, WILLIAMS, COLEMAN.
TORONTO - CAMBY 5, ROGERS 2, JONES, CHRISTIE, STOUDAMIRE, EARL.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: PHILADELPHIA 9-25 (.360), COLEMAN 0-2, STACKHOUSE 3-8,
IVERSON 5-11, HARRIS 0-3, DAVIS 1-1. TORONTO 11-21 (.524), WILLIAMS 5-7,
CHRISTIE 2-4, STOUDAMIRE 2-7, ROGERS 2-2, DAVIS 0-1.
TECHNICALS: PHILADELPHIA - WILLIAMS.
OFFICIALS: GREG WILLARD, RONNIE NUNN, JOE BORGIA.
A - 17,385. T - 2:08.
PHILADELPHIA (98) AT TORONTO (110)
Rookie Marcus Camby scored 11 of his 23 points in the third
quarter as the Toronto Raptors cruised to a 110-98 victory over
the Philadelphia 76ers, who had their three-game winning streak
snapped.
Walt Williams scored 22 points and Damon Stoudamire added 21 and
12 assists for the Raptors, who ended a three-game losing streak
against the 76ers. Toronto scored a season-high 35 points in
the third quarter.
Camby scored eight points in an 11-2 run that opened the second
half which built a three-point lead to a 58-46 advantage on
Stoudamire's jumper with 8:34 remaining. The Raptors shot 52
percent in the period (13-of-25) and took an 82-66 lead into
the final quarter.
Camby's basket gave Toronto its largest lead at 88-68 with 11:09
to play before Philadelphia's Clarence Weatherspoon scored six
points in a 14-2 spurt. A three-pointer by Jerry Stackhouse cut
the deficit to 90-82 with 8:12 left, but Stoudamire responded
with a three-pointer and the Sixers got no closer than 10 points
thereafter.
"We're back at .500 and I'm trying to focus on the next one,"
Raptors coach Darrell Walker said. "We've got a young
basketball team. When we look two years down the road, it's
going to be a special team."
Camby, the second overall pick in the NBA draft, had five blocks
and won his first duel with top pick Allen Iverson, who scored
24 points for the Sixers.
"Marcus Camby played really well tonight," Iverson said. "They
got the victory, so that speaks for itself."
"(Iverson) was restricted a bit in college," Camby said. "I
think he's the quickest player I've seen one-on-one."
Carlos Rogers had 20 points and 10 rebounds and Popeye Jones
grabbed 14 rebounds for the Raptors, who held a 51-35 advantage
on the boards.
"I don't know if it was my night or not," Rogers said. "I think
it was the team's night. I'm getting to the point where me and
Marcus are working together and one of us is going to get the
rebounds."
Weatherspoon scored a season-high 26 points and Stackhouse added
19 for Philadelphia (3-4), which was trying to climb above .500
for the first time in over a year.
"We didn't start playing until the fourth quarter," Stackhouse
said. "We were winning in the first half, yet we didn't have
any enthusiasm. I'm just disappointed about the way that we
played."
Iverson was 8-of-18 from the field and committed five turnovers.
But he forced Stoudamire, the 1996 Rookie of the Year, into
8-of-28 shooting and seven turnovers.
"I think there was a little of (cat-and-mouse) between me and
Iverson," Stoudamire said. "I'm not used to someone coming out
and running off the points. Usually I'm the one that does
that."
Iverson, who scored a season-high 35 points in a win at New York
on Wednesday, had 11 in the first period, which ended in a 23-23
tie. Stackhouse's three-pointer gave Philadelphia its biggest
lead at 42-30 with 4:38 left in the second quarter.
But Toronto closed the half with a 17-2 run, keyed by six points
by Stoudamire. A basket by Rogers gave the Raptors the lead for
good at 45-44.
"We took a half-step backwards tonight," Sixers coach Johnny
Davis said. "Anything that can throw you off your game, I want
us to respond to. Tonight we didn't come up with what we needed
to. I'm trying to get our team to a point of not using excuses.
Our offensive execution was a problem."
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PORTLAND (70) AT CLEVELAND (81)
PORTLAND
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
C ROBINSON F 38 4-12 2-2 1 5 6 6 2 0 3 11
WALLACE F 31 5-9 2-3 0 7 7 1 2 0 1 12
SABONIS C 22 1-4 0-2 1 5 6 2 2 1 0 2
ANDERSON G 39 4-12 3-6 1 2 3 3 4 3 5 12
RIDER G 37 6-17 2-3 3 3 6 5 4 1 5 15
DUDLEY 13 0-4 0-0 2 2 4 0 2 0 1 0
MCKIE 19 1-4 0-0 0 3 3 3 2 1 1 3
TRENT 28 6-8 0-0 1 6 7 1 1 0 2 12
WINGFIELD 13 1-4 0-0 2 1 3 1 2 0 3 3
BUTLER DNP - COACH'S DECISION
CHILDRESS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
JORDAN DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 28-74 9-16 11 34 45 22 21 6 21 70
(.378) (.563) TEAM REBS: 11 TOTAL TO: 21(31 PTS)
CLEVELAND
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MILLS F 32 6-9 0-0 1 4 5 3 1 0 3 13
HILL F 35 5-9 4-4 4 3 7 2 3 2 1 14
WEST C 17 3-7 0-0 0 3 3 2 1 0 0 6
BRANDON G 35 1-11 4-4 0 3 3 5 3 3 3 6
PHILLS G 30 4-12 3-3 0 4 4 4 1 1 2 12
FERRY 31 6-11 0-0 0 6 6 2 2 1 1 15
SURA 25 5-7 0-0 1 3 4 2 3 2 3 11
LANG 17 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
POTAPENKO 13 2-10 0-0 1 3 4 1 4 0 1 4
GEARY 5 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
MARSHALL DNP - COACH'S DECISION
THOMAS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 32-77 11-11 7 29 36 21 21 9 14 81
(.416) (1.000) TEAM REBS: 6 TOTAL TO: 15(15 PTS)
PORTLAND 18 17 16 19 - 70
CLEVELAND 22 24 15 20 - 81
BLOCKED SHOTS: PORTLAND - SABONIS 3, WALLACE 2, C ROBINSON. CLEVELAND -
WEST 2, SURA 2, PHILLS, LANG, GEARY.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: PORTLAND 5-13 (.385), C ROBINSON 1-5, SABONIS 0-1,
ANDERSON 1-4, RIDER 1-1, MCKIE 1-1, WINGFIELD 1-1. CLEVELAND 6-14 (.429),
MILLS 1-2, BRANDON 0-2, PHILLS 1-4, FERRY 3-5, SURA 1-1.
TECHNICALS: CLEVELAND - ILLEGAL DEFENSE.
OFFICIALS: DERRICK STAFFORD, BILL OAKES, SCOTT WALL.
A - 13,757. T - 2:05.
PORTLAND (70) AT CLEVELAND (81)
Danny Ferry scored four of his 15 points in a decisive
fourth-quarter run and Chris Mills added a key three-pointer
late in the game as the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the
Portland Trail Blazers, 81-70.
The Cavaliers defense held the Trail Blazers to a regular-season
record low point total. Portland's 70 points was two fewer than
they scored in its previous record low, set against the Utah
Jazz on January 23rd, 1996. Overall, the Trail Blazers shot
just 37 percent (28-of-74) from the field and made just 9-of-16
free-throw attempts.
"I think that they are an excellent defensive team," said
Portland head coach P.J. Carlesimo. "They are not winning with
mirrors or by accident. They are winning because they play
hard, are well-coached and have good players."
"We'll take the win," Cavs coach Mike Fratello said. "It's
always good to bounce back from a disappointing loss like last
night."
Ahead 61-51 entering the fourth quarter, the Cavaliers put the
game away by opening the period with an 11-0 run. Ferry had a
pair of buckets in the spurt as Cleveland held Portland without
a basket for the first 5:17 of the quarter.
"When I square up I am squaring up with the basket much better
now," Ferry said. "I like those hook shots now."
Bobby Sura opened the quarter with a three-pointer and Ferry
followed with a basket for a 66-51 lead. Sura then hit a bucket
with 8:50 to play and Ferry added another basket for a 70-51
advantage. Rookie Vitaly Potapenko, who made just 2-of-10
shots, capped the run by tipping in a shot for a 21-point lead
with 6:43 left.
The Trail Blazers bounced back by going on a 15-0 burst of their
own. But after Portland drew within 72-66 with 99 seconds
remaining, Mills sank a three-pointer to put the game out of
reach.
Cleveland has allowed more than 90 points in a game just once in
seven contests this season. Leading scorer Terrell Brandon was
held to just 1-of-11 from the field, with the lone basket coming
with nine seconds to play.
"I was just cold tonight and wasn't shooting the ball well,"
Brandon said. "We kept our poise and kept moving."
The Trail Blazers have dropped the opening two games of their
four-game road trip. Isaiah Rider led Portland with 15 points
and Kenny Anderson added 12 but the backcourt duo shot just
10-of-29 from the floor.
"We are struggling right now," Anderson said. "We let them get a
10-point lead and to them it is like a 20-point lead. We
stopped Brandon tonight but the other guys stepped up and that
is what killed us."
Portland's bench managed just 18 points, 12 of which came from
Gary Trent, who was 6-of-8 from the field and grabbed seven
rebounds in 28 minutes.
Low-scoring Mark West had six points in the first quarter as the
Cavs built a 22-18 lead. A 14-4 run midway through the second
quarter extended the advantage to 40-26 but Portland drew within
11 points by halftime.
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SACRAMENTO (74) AT UTAH (105)
SACRAMENTO
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
POLYNICE F 25 0-7 1-2 0 7 7 0 3 1 1 1
OWENS F 29 3-6 3-4 0 1 1 4 4 0 3 9
CAUSWELL C 30 0-2 3-6 3 5 8 2 5 0 1 3
RICHMOND G 27 5-18 6-6 2 1 3 2 1 2 3 16
ABDUL-RAUF G 24 5-12 0-0 1 3 4 4 3 0 3 11
SMITH 25 4-4 0-0 1 6 7 0 2 0 0 8
C WILLIAMSON 20 2-6 1-2 1 1 2 1 6 0 3 5
SIMMONS 17 1-3 0-0 1 2 3 0 0 0 2 2
EDNEY 24 4-9 3-4 0 1 1 3 1 2 1 12
GAMBLE 12 2-6 0-0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 4
HURLEY 7 0-3 3-4 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 3
GRANT DNP - NOT WITH TEAM
TOTALS 240 26-76 20-28 10 29 39 16 27 5 17 74
(.342) (.714) TEAM REBS: 9 TOTAL TO: 19(19 PTS)
UTAH
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MALONE F 29 8-11 6-6 0 5 5 4 2 1 5 22
RUSSELL F 24 4-7 5-7 0 4 4 1 2 1 0 15
OSTERTAG C 38 7-12 0-0 1 12 13 0 4 0 0 14
STOCKTON G 28 5-7 1-2 0 0 0 10 1 5 3 13
HORNACEK G 27 2-7 6-8 1 3 4 3 2 2 2 11
EISLEY 20 2-6 0-0 1 3 4 1 3 0 2 4
CARR 14 3-8 0-2 3 1 4 0 0 0 0 6
MORRIS 15 2-6 0-0 1 2 3 2 0 1 1 4
KEEFE 24 3-6 4-8 3 3 6 4 3 0 2 10
FOSTER 8 1-4 2-2 0 3 3 1 1 0 0 4
ANDERSON 7 1-2 0-0 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 2
THOMPSON 6 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 240 38-77 24-35 11 37 48 26 20 10 16 105
(.494) (.686) TEAM REBS: 12 TOTAL TO: 16(14 PTS)
SACRAMENTO 21 14 19 20 - 74
UTAH 29 25 27 24 - 105
BLOCKED SHOTS: SACRAMENTO - C WILLIAMSON 2, GAMBLE 2, POLYNICE, CAUSWELL,
ABDUL-RAUF. UTAH - MALONE 2, OSTERTAG 2, RUSSELL, HORNACEK, CARR.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: SACRAMENTO 2-13 (.154), OWENS 0-1, RICHMOND 0-3,
ABDUL-RAUF 1-2, SIMMONS 0-1, EDNEY 1-2, GAMBLE 0-2, HURLEY 0-2. UTAH 5-9
(.556), RUSSELL 2-2, STOCKTON 2-2, HORNACEK 1-4, MORRIS 0-1.
TECHNICALS: NONE.
OFFICIALS: JOE CRAWFORD, LUIS GRILLO, GEORGE TOLIVER.
A - 19,283. T - 2:01.
SACRAMENTO (74) AT UTAH (105)
Karl Malone scored 22 points in three quarters and Bryon Russell
added 15 as the Utah Jazz breezed past the Sacramento Kings for
the 11th straight time, 105-74.
Second-year center Greg Ostertag had his best NBA game with 14
points and 13 rebounds and John Stockton added 13 points and 10
assists for the Jazz, who snapped a two-game losing streak.
"I don't talk to the guys about being hungry," said Utah coach
Jerry Sloane. "Some of these guys have heard that since they
were in grade school. I just want them to eat well, sleep well
and come and play basketball."
Mitch Richmond scored 16 points for the Kings, who trailed by as
many as 39 points and lost for the fourth time in five games.
Sacramento shot 34 percent (26-of-76) from the field and were
held to a season-low in points.
Jeff Hornacek scored eight of his 11 points in the first quarter
as Utah opened a 29-21 lead. The Jazz then used two runs in the
second quarter to put away the game.
After the teams traded baskets, Chris Morris had all four of his
points in a 10-4 spurt that gave Utah a 41-27 lead with 5:57 to
play in the period. Malone scored seven points in an 11-4 run
to close the half and give the Jazz a 54-35 lead.
The lead ballooned to 81-54 after three quarters as Malone had
nine more points. Utah's largest advantage was 98-59 on a hoop
by Antoine Carr with 5:15 remaining in the game.
Adam Keefe had 10 points for the Jazz, who had six players in
double figures and shot 49 percent (38-of-77). Utah also held a
48-39 rebounding advantage.
"Really, the past two games we didn't play particularly well and
we were looking forward to coming out and playing and getting
another chance to get into a groove a little bit," Keefe said.
Tyus Edney scored 12 points and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf added 11 for
the Kings, who were 2-of-13 from three-point range.
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WASHINGTON (106) AT NEW JERSEY (91)
WASHINGTON
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
WEBBER F 37 11-15 4-6 4 5 9 5 4 1 6 26
HOWARD F 36 8-16 6-7 2 5 7 4 2 1 3 22
MURESAN C 19 3-7 0-0 4 6 10 0 4 2 3 6
CHEANEY G 28 5-10 1-1 0 1 1 0 5 1 0 11
STRICKLAND G 33 6-10 2-3 1 3 4 8 1 4 4 14
GRANT 26 2-6 1-2 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 7
JACKSON 20 3-7 0-1 1 0 1 0 3 1 2 6
WHITNEY 15 2-3 2-2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 6
WALLACE 4 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
MURRAY 21 2-6 3-4 0 2 2 1 2 4 1 8
FISH 1 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
AMAYA DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 42-82 19-26 13 26 39 22 23 16 20 106
(.512) (.731) TEAM REBS: 5 TOTAL TO: 20(26 PTS)
NEW JERSEY
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
OBANNON F 17 3-6 0-0 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 6
J WILLIAMS F 42 5-14 4-4 14 4 18 0 5 1 4 14
BRADLEY C 33 4-16 5-8 6 7 13 0 3 0 2 13
GILL G 38 7-18 1-1 4 6 10 3 4 2 8 15
KITTLES G 35 9-12 1-2 0 6 6 5 1 1 4 21
R WILLIAMS 17 2-6 0-0 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 4
PACK 25 2-6 2-2 0 2 2 4 3 0 7 6
MASSENBURG 19 3-5 2-4 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 8
REEVES 6 0-2 2-2 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 2
CALDWELL 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
MCDANIEL 5 1-4 0-0 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 2
DARE DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 36-89 17-23 28 30 58 17 24 5 30 91
(.404) (.739) TEAM REBS: 4 TOTAL TO: 30(29 PTS)
WASHINGTON 26 30 25 25 - 106
NEW JERSEY 21 16 28 26 - 91
BLOCKED SHOTS: WASHINGTON - WEBBER 3, MURESAN 2, MURRAY, GRANT,
STRICKLAND. NEW JERSEY - BRADLEY 6, KITTLES, GILL, J WILLIAMS, OBANNON.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: WASHINGTON 3-12 (.250), CHEANEY 0-1, GRANT 2-4, JACKSON
0-3, MURRAY 1-4. NEW JERSEY 2-10 (.200), OBANNON 0-1, GILL 0-2, KITTLES
2-3, R WILLIAMS 0-1, PACK 0-1, REEVES 0-2.
TECHNICALS: WASHINGTON - STRICKLAND.
OFFICIALS: BOB DELANEY, TIM DONAGHY, MARK WUNDERLICH.
A - 10,884. T - 2:03.
WASHINGTON (106) AT NEW JERSEY (91)
Chris Webber scored 26 points and Tracy Murray had all eight of
his points in a second-quarter surge as the Washington Bullets
snapped a three-game losing streak with a 106-91 victory over
the winless New Jersey Nets.
Juwan Howard added 22 points and Rod Strickland 14 for the
Bullets, who led by as many as 20 points in the second period
and never by less than 10 thereafter.
"We're not the greatest perimeter shooting team," Washington
coach Jim Lynam said. "When we can get Rod in the open floor
and cap it with Chris and Juwan, who are both very good
finishers, that's when we're at our best."
Rookie Kerry Kittles, making his first start, scored 12 of his
21 points in the final quarter for the Nets (0-4), who were
playing for the first time since returning from a pair of losses
in Japan against the Orlando Magic.
New Jersey committed a season-high 30 turnovers and remains
mired with Phoenix (0-7) and Vancouver (0-7) as the league's
only winless teams.
"Turnovers lead to easy baskets, so that's our whole goal -- to
get turnovers and score and make them pay for those turnovers,"
Webber said. "That was definitely part of the plan."
Working mostly against Nets 7-6 center Shawn Bradley, Webber
scored eight points and Howard six in the first quarter as
Washington opened a 26-21 lead. The Nets had nine turnovers.
"He's a center and I'm a forward," Webber said. "I think I
should use my quickness to my advantage. A couple of times he
and I were left one-on-one and he's a great shot-blocker, so I'm
glad I was able to do that."
Murray came off the bench to score eight points in the first six
minutes of the second period. He had a three-pointer and three
foul shots before capping a 15-4 burst with a layup that gave
the Bullets a 41-25 lead with 6:11 to go in the half.
"We have some horses on this team," Murray said. "We got the
ball in Rod's hands and he pushed it up the floor. With him
doing that, we were able to get the easy buckets. We seem to be
running a lot."
Two straight baskets by Webber gave Washington its largest lead
at 56-36 just before halftime. New Jersey had 12 more turnovers
in the period.
"We didn't have motion, we didn't have movement," Nets coach
John Calipari said. "Everybody was trying to do it their way.
And we turn it over four or five times and all of a sudden
you're down 20."
Shawn Bradley and Kendall Gill scored six points apiece in the
third quarter as the Nets closed the deficit to 81-65 entering
the final period. Consecutive baskets by Gill cut it to 97-87
with 2:25 to go, but Webber's two free throws and a three-point
play by Rod Strickland sealed the win.
Strickland added eight assists for Washington, which shot 51
percent (42-of-82) from the field.
Gill had 15 points and 10 rebounds, Jayson Williams had 14 and
18 and Bradley 13 and 13 for New Jersey, which held a 58-39 edge
in rebounds, but shot just 40 percent (36-of-89).
"I'm calm. I've played in some games before," said Kittles, who
had seven turnovers. "No need for me to be nervous. If we take
our time and concentrate a little more, the turnovers will cut
down."
nba.1469vpoznanovic,
Kings' Grant slated for shoulder surgery
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Sacramento Kings announced forward Brian
Grant has been scheduled to undergo athroscopic surgery Thursday on
the rotator cuff in his right shoulder.
The 6-foot-9 forward currently is second on the team in scoring (12.8
ppg) and rebounding (8.0 rpg). The former Xavier star is in his third
year in Sacramento after the Kings made him the eighth overall pick in
the 1994 draft.
Grant originally suffered the injury during the off-season and missed
the majority of training camp and the first five preseason games. He
will be out of action for an unspecified amount of time.
nba.1470vpoznanovic,
Hawks put Lauderdale on injured list
ATLANTA (Nov 13, 1996 - 18:30 EST) -- The Atlanta Hawks put
first-round pick Priest Lauderdale on the injured list Wednesday
because of soreness in his right knee.
The 7-foot-4 Lauderdale joins Ken Norman and Alan Henderson on the
injured list.
Lauderdale played 13 games at Central State in Ohio during the 1993-94
season. He averaged 20.1 points and 10.2 rebounds there before the
NAIA ruled he was incorrectly admitted to Central State as a junior
college transfer when he should have been listed as a freshman.
He left school and played with Peristeri Nikas in the Greek League
last season, averaging 16.7 points and 11.2 rebounds a game.
nba.1471vpoznanovic,
Ceballos tears patella tendon
SAN ANTONIO (Nov 14, 1996 - 00:30 EST) -- Lakers forward Cedric
Ceballos was wheeled off the court on a stretcher Wednesday night
after tearing the patella tendon in his right knee on a drive to the
basket against the Spurs.
The Lakers said he would be examined Thursday in Los Angeles by team
doctor Steve Lombardo. They set no timetable for his return.
Ceballos was driving to the basket on a 2-on-1 break with 3:49 left in
the fourth quarter when he came down awkwardly after scoring his
second basket of the game.
The Lakers said he suffered a partial tear of the tendon. He was on
the floor for about five minutes before being wheeled off.
"We'll have to step up and play better without Cedric. Cedric is good
around the basket, but we'll need more," Nick Van Exel said.
Ceballos, averaging 11.7 points and 7.1 rebounds, finished with four
points on 2-for-7 shooting as the Lakers lost 95-83.
nba.1472vpoznanovic,
AROUND THE NBA: Blazers hope rewards worth the risks
(Nov 13, 1996 - 10:48 EST) -- This year marks the 20th anniversary of
that memorable season in which the Portland Trail Blazers rode Bill
Walton's back to the NBA championship.
They have made a couple of returns to the Finals since but haven't won
any more titles. That's a significant wait for any team. In Portland,
where the Blazers are the only game in town, it's an eternity.
After an up-and-down season last year, team president Bob Whitsitt
drastically restructured the roster, adding six new players. Some of
them, though talented, arrived in town with more baggage than a jumbo
jet's worth of overhead compartment.
Concerns about the character of offseason acquisitions like Isaiah
Rider, Rasheed Wallace and Kenny Anderson were heightened when Rider
got into trouble even before the season started.
Not only did Rider miss an exhibition game and a shoot-around, but on
Oct. 30 he was cited for possession of less than an ounce of
marijuana. Rider has said he'll contest the charge.
Whitsitt and the Blazers, meanwhile, may face charges that they're
trying to win at any price.
"I've talked to a lot of people, and nobody's told me we've sold our
soul to the devil," Whitsitt told a reporter in response to a
question. "You're not sensationalizing, are you?"
Whitsitt is aware his offseason moves have intensified the media
scrutiny of his team. He said he would not judge the latest Rider
incident until the legal system has done so, and insisted he stands by
his choices.
"Ultimately what the player does makes you look really smart or really
stupid," Whitsitt said. "We don't have the ability to change our minds
after a trade is made."
Whitsitt has been known to take chances before. As the Sonics' general
manager from 1986-94 he drafted Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton despite
their shaky reputations. Those decisions turned into winners, but
Whitsitt well knows the dangers of playing with fire.
"I haven't had to bail anybody out in Portland," he said. "I did in
Seattle."
* * *
MAYBE I'LL STICK AROUND: The venerable Joe Dumars was an integral part
of the Pistons championship teams of the late '80s and early '90s.
But after the departure of the Bad Boys, the Pistons became a shell of
their old selves, losing a total of 116 games in 1993-94 and 1994-95.
Last year, cast in a secondary role by new coach Doug Collins, Dumars
said this season would be his last.
Lo and behold, basketball is fun again, and Dumars is reconsidering.
The Pistons are said to be ready to offer the 35-year-old Dumars a
two-year contract extension. If he continues his current pace,
however, Dumars might prefer to try out the free market.
Through Monday, Dumars was averaging 19.2 points a game on 52.5
percent shooting, including 17-of-29 from 3-point range.
"This would be the first time I've been a free agent in my career,"
Dumars said. "It would be uncharted water for me. But for right now, I
plan to play this season. Afterward we can sit down and see where we
are and where we're going."
Dumars, who felt Collins put him out to pasture prematurely last year,
has reached an agreement with the coach regarding his role. Collins
now wants the classy veteran to stick around for a while.
"I told Joe that when the time is right, let me know what you want to
do," said Collins, who's in charge of the team's personnel decisions.
"As long as you want to play and you are having fun, we want you to be
here."
* * *
TIMEOUT FOR TRIVIA: How valuable a commodity is Charles Barkley? When
he was traded for the first time, from Philadelphia to Phoenix in June
of 1992, he fetched three players in return. This past offseason it
took the Houston Rockets four players to pry the 33-year-old Barkley
from the Suns. Can you name the seven players? Answer below.
* * *
FREE SHOTS: The Grizzlies' Shareef Abdur-Rahim never wore the No. 3 in
high school but adopted it when he entered Cal to honor his sister
Qaadirah. That's the number she wore when she played basketball. ...
The Bulls are huge just about everywhere. Ask guard Steve Kerr, who
did some camps with the Spurs' Sean Elliott over the summer in Japan
and found himself constantly recognized because of his team
affiliation. "I'm not saying people on the streets were swarming me,
but there were Japanese people stopping me in the sidewalks," Kerr
said. "That is pretty impressive considering four years ago I was
playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers and I could walk the streets of
Cleveland and nobody knew who I was." ... The 76ers' Don MacLean is a
partner with former UCLA teammate Trevor Wilson in a Southern
California eatery and catering service called Sandbag's. Was Brickbags
taken?
* * *
TRIVIA ANSWER:The 76ers received Jeff Hornacek, Tim Perry and Andrew
Lang in exchange for Barkley four years ago. The Suns commanded Robert
Horry, Sam Cassell, Mark Bryant and Chucky Brown from the Rockets.
Given his early-season exploits and his productivity during his four
years in Phoenix, Barkley might have been a steal both times.
* * *
THE LAST DRIBBLE: "This year we have a physical masseuse. Last year we
needed a mental masseuse," New Jersey forward Jayson Williams, on the
Nets' commitment to improving conditions for the players.
nba.1473vpoznanovic,
Magic guard Anderson refutes allegations of rape
ORLANDO, Fla. (Nov 13, 1996 - 23:18 EST) -- Orlando Magic guard Nick
Anderson called a press conference Wednesday night to refute
allegations by an Orlando woman that he raped her last February.
"I say to you and to all the fans of the Orlando Magic that this
allegation is false and untrue," Anderson said, tears streaming from
his eyes and his voice choking.
A woman, who wasn't identified, filed a complaint against Anderson
with the Orlando Police Department on Oct. 8. The woman said Anderson
raped her Feb. 26, Orlando Police spokesman Sgt. Bill Molloy said.
Molloy said police were investigating but that no charges had been
filed.
Bill Pollak, Anderson's agent, said the woman threatened to file the
complaint unless Anderson paid her $600,000 by Oct. 1.
"This incident has weighed heavily on my mind, but I will be ready to
play," said Anderson, an eight-year veteran.
Anderson's lawyer, Harrison Slaughter, said Anderson had volunteered
to take a lie detector test and passed.
"Nick is the one who asked for the polygraph test and we are convinced
... he did not commit rape," Slaughter said.
nba.1474vpoznanovic,
Suns slow to rise this season
PHOENIX (Nov 13, 1996 - 18:30 EST) -- The Phoenix Suns knew they were
giving up double-figure scoring and rebounding when they traded
Charles Barkley. They forgot it was also goodbye to their only
intimidator.
After a 99-89 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in overtime, the Suns have
lost their first seven games, second-worst start in their history.
Unless they win in Vancouver on Thursday night, they will be 0-8 when
they return to Phoenix to face the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night.
The 1985-86 team started 0-9 and finished 32-50, failing to make the
playoffs for the first time in nine seasons. This time, the Suns are
trying to keep intact an eight-year string of playoff appearances, but
the outlook is grim.
Center Joe Kleine joked that it may be time for an exorcism. Others
point to the fact that Mark Bryant, the best inside player of the four
Phoenix obtained from Houston for Barkley, is on the injured list
along with Kevin Johnson and John "Hot Rod" Williams, the No. 1
center.
No one alludes to Barkley by name, although assistant coach Danny
Ainge came close when he acknowledged: "Interior defense and
rebounding would help."
Those words, plus scoring, were synonymous with Barkley for four
seasons in Phoenix.
"It was a terrible mistake to trade Barkley. He was the franchise,"
fan Lowell Nelson said Wednesday.
Nelson, a custom bootmaker in suburban Scottsdale, said recent
personnel moves, including trading Dan Majerle for Williams in October
1995, have been disastrous.
"When they got rid of Majerle and Ainge, then picked up 'Shot Rod,' it
made no sense," Nelson said. "And Barkley was ticked off when they let
(coach Paul) Westphal go. That's when he wanted out."
Phoenix, one of the highest-scoring teams in the NBA during four
seasons when Tom Chambers started at power forward and four more with
Barkley filling that spot, is outscoring just eight of the NBA's 29
teams (90.4 points) and outrebounding four (38.4).
And the Suns are 27th in points allowed (102.1) and opponents'
rebounds (49.5).
It's obvious that the missing stars of the 1994 and 1995 teams that
took the Rockets to seven games in back-to-back second-round series
represent the inside and outside firepower the Suns lack.
What the numbers can't measure is how glad other teams are not to have
to deal with Barkley at either end.
Vin Baker had a career-high 22 rebounds Tuesday night, helping the
Bucks outrebound the Suns 30-15 in the second half while battling back
from nine points down.
It was the second straight 22-rebound game for a Suns' opponent.
Dennis Rodman had that many Monday night in a 97-79 Chicago victory
that Michael Jordan called "kind of a fun night."
Even if Phoenix beats the Grizzlies in a clash of teams with 0-7
records, the November schedule won't get easier.
Next week, the Suns play the Lakers, Bulls and Rockets, getting
another dose of Barkley, who had 33 rebounds against them Nov. 2. Of
four more games before the month ends, the only team playing at
Phoenix's level is New Jersey.
Bryant, who averaged 16.9 points and 7.1 rebounds in seven starts at
center for Houston last season, and Johnson are expected to be cleared
for practice in the next two weeks, so there are signs the plunge will
end.
If not, even the lottery won't help. The Suns gave their first-round
draft pick in 1996, 1997 or 1998 to Cleveland for Williams, and the
Cavaliers decided not to use the lottery-protected choice in June.
nba.1475vpoznanovic,
Abdul-Rauf lost in sea of thoughts
(Nov 13, 1996 - 06:36 EST) - A box of ginseng extract sits in his
locker, near a plastic bottle of water. His brain is cluttered with
demons. Now the time has come to disappear, to retreat to a quiet
place and think about everything and nothing.
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf is a deeply spiritual person, and that's the
problem. He's a thinking man stuck in a job that devours people who
think too much.
His job -- point guard for the Kings -- provides golden rewards for
physical feats and lightning bolts of inspiration. Professional
basketball has no patience for guys who try to think their way through
life.
That's where Abdul-Rauf is -- thinking and failing and thinking some
more and making it worse.
Not quite three weeks into his first season in Sacramento, he's a bust
in the backcourt, a proud veteran unable to do the things he was hired
to do. He's alone and lost, a disappointment to himself and the team.
He isn't sure whether he should pass the ball or shoot it. His
teammates, intentionally or by oversight, won't or can't find him in
the mad frenzy on the floor. Defenders get downright happy when they
see him; his presence makes their work easier.
"I'm trying too hard, thinking too much. I'm not just playing the
game," Abdul-Rauf said this week.
"Basketball is supposed to be something that flows naturally,
something that's fun. It's none of those things right now."
The Kings used to hate to see Abdul-Rauf coming. When he played for
the Denver Nuggets, he could destroy the Kings, picking his way around
screens, launching from 23 feet and blasting their lights out.
The memory of Abdul-Rauf's past success brought hope during the
summer, when the Kings traded Sarunas Marciulionis to Denver for
Abdul-Rauf. The newcomer was supposed to fill a vital role in the
backcourt alongside Mitch Richmond, demanding double coverage from
defenses, opening the inside game, giving the Kings striking power
from long distance and point-blank range.
In the home opening loss to Houston, Abdul-Rauf scored 16 points but
didn't attempt a three-point basket. Against Atlanta, he missed all
six shots and injured his hand, forcing him to miss the next game. He
returned Monday in a loss to Seattle and scored seven points but was
tentative and uncertain and worried about his hand.
"He's struggling big time," Kings coach Garry St. Jean said. "We've
got to reach out to him as a team. He's having a rough time. We've got
to find a way to get him more involved. Right now, we don't know what
the problem is."
Abdul-Rauf doesn't know the answer. He knows his hand hurts -- he
accidentally struck Mookie Blaylock, and it began to swell. X-rays
were negative. He knows he's still learning the Sacramento offense.
But those excuses don't explain the problem.
"I'm confused about things," Abdul-Rauf said. "I look at all these
options -- this option, that option, pass the ball, shoot it -- and I
can't decide what to do. I'm not putting any pressure on the defense,
and that's why they brought me here. I'm not sure about my role. I've
got to sit with the coaches and talk about it. It's not their fault.
It's my fault."
Abdul-Rauf will sit with the coaches and ask whether he's a point
guard or shooting guard. If the coaches are wise, they will give him
clear and precise definitions. He's too confused to be weighted down
with vague options. Maybe later, but not now.
Beyond the coaches, Abdul-Rauf will go someplace alone and think about
his career and life. He said he will go away for "reflection, because
reflection's always good if you act on it."
In the short term, the Kings should forget about Abdul-Rauf as a point
guard, ballhandler and decoy for Richmond. They should let him
concentrate on what he does best -- finding screens and shooting. He
may duplicate many of Richmond's duties, but that will allow
Abdul-Rauf to regain his confidence.
Without his confidence, Abdul-Rauf might as well be back in Denver.
"I can't go on playing like this," he said.
The words came without reflection, contemplation or thought. Some
things are just obvious.
nba.1476vpoznanovic,
Snow getting his chance
SEATTLE (Nov 13, 1996 - 05:42 EST) -- The lone positive of the groin
injury to Nate McMillan is that the Seattle SuperSonics get a chance
to see if second-year guard Eric Snow can fulfill the potential he
showed this summer.
Snow had played only 12 minutes in Seattle's first five games before
hitting the floor for 17 minutes in the victory Monday night at
Sacramento when he had four points, six assists and two turnovers.
"He played like he's capable of playing," said coach George Karl.
"Good defense, handled the ball, found people. He's tough."
Snow played this summer on the Sonics' team in the Los Angeles Summer
Pro League, and on a combined Seattle-Golden State team in the Rocky
Mountain Revue summer league in Utah, and was so impressive that the
Sonics received numerous trade inquiries.
"People were very interested in Eric," said team president and general
manager Wally Walker.
"We got more inquiries about Eric than about any other player," Karl
said. "He had that good of a summer."
The only knock on Snow, and the reason he lasted until the second
round of the 1995 draft after a solid career at Michigan State is his
shooting.
But Karl, who got Snow through a draft-day trade with Milwaukee, loves
Snow's defense and attitude, two reasons why Snow always was viewed a
bit more favorably than the first-round selection of last year,
Sherell Ford.
"Eric's a much more mature person and player than Sherell," Karl said.
"He took it much more seriously than Sherell."
MOVES AHEAD: Walker said a move could be made Wednesday on backup
center Elmore Spencer, who was signed to a "make-good" contract the
last week of the preseason. If Spencer is on the roster after
Thursday, the Sonics owe him a full season's minimum salary of
$247,500.
The 7-foot, 270-pound Spencer had played only five minutes in one game
-- the blowout win over Portland -- before Tuesday night, missing his
only shot. But Walker has said all along Spencer would be evaluated
more on his play in practice than his play in games. Karl hasn't
sounded too impressed.
Clouding the issue, however, is that Steve Scheffler, while eligible
to come off the injured list, isn't yet ready to play while recovering
from a right foot injury. Walker said it could be at least another
week before Scheffler would be able to fully practice.
Cutting Spencer and activating guard Greg Graham, who is also eligible
to come off the IR, would leave the Sonics with only two listed
centers -- Jim McIlvaine and Sam Perkins.
"You can see right now that Detlef (Schrempf) is playing a lot of
four," Walker said. "But Larry Stewart is capable of helping us."
Walker also didn't rule out the possibility of bringing in another big
man.
BY THE NUMBERS: The Sonics are the fifth-oldest team in the NBA and
have the third-most experience, according to the results of the NBA's
annual player survey, which was released Tuesday.
The Sonics average 29.27 years (San Antonio is No. 1 at 30.58) and
6.79 years of NBA experience (the Bulls are first at 7.14).
Also, the Sonics are tied as the 15th-tallest team in the NBA,
averaging 6-feet, 7.07 inches (the Bulls are first at 6-8.50) and are
20th in weight at 220.93 pounds (again, the Bulls are first at
241.07).
NOTES: The Sonics played their third set of back-to-back games
Tuesday. They were already 2-0 in the second game of back-to-backs
this year and were 17-5 last year in such situations. ... The Sonics
have started the same lineup in all seven games, with no changes
apparent anytime soon. The Sonics started 13 different lineups last
year.
nba.1477vpoznanovic,
Raptors new coach puts on a hyper show
(Nov 13, 1996 - 09:01 EST) -- One of Darrell Walker's goals as new
head coach of the Toronto Raptors is to make sure point guard Damon
Stoudamire is not overused. When Walker took the job, he probably
didn't think he would be talking about reducing his own minutes.
Walker's courtside manner has been one of the conversation pieces
early in the Raptors' second National Basketball Association season.
He is animated, to say the least.
"I'm sure I'll calm down," he said when asked about it after a
practice last week, and then grinned. "I'll limit my minutes on the
sideline."
Walker, 35, is three seasons removed from his playing career -- he was
known for his intensity -- which ended with a championship with the
Chicago Bulls in 1993. But some nights he's as busy on the sidelines
as his players are on the court. He gets up and down his end of the
court with the best of them, yelling instructions to his players or
critiques to the referees.
Fortunately, basketball coaches aren't into wearing headphones. He
says he doesn't want to be considered a sideshow, that the players are
the show. But he has been hard to ignore. He admits to being hyper.
In last a recent victory over the Dallas Mavericks, he was hampered a
bit by a cold and a hoarse voice and even sat down for a spell. But
mostly he was busy as usual, and when the referees missed a foul on
Stoudamire in the final minute against the Mavericks, he hammered the
dashboard along media row with both hands.
During tense moments, he assumes a semi-crouch. At times, he'll kick
out with either leg. On the last play of Friday's victory over the Los
Angeles Lakers, he showed that he hasn't lost an inch from his
vertical leap.
"It's just natural," Walker said. "I don't see anything wrong with it.
(Dallas coach) Jim Cleamons was up. He was hollering. I don't want
anybody to make a big deal out of it. That's just me. Judge me on what
my team does."
He has a point there. No one can complain about the results. The
Raptors played well in an opening-night loss to the New York Knicks on
Nov. 1. They have since defeated Dallas and the Lakers in exciting
games for a 2-3 record.
"I'm sure everybody is watching the players," Walker said. "I don't
know why everybody wants to make a big thing out of it."
"I think we can relate to it," center Acie Earl said. "It kind of
keeps the barrier down between player and coach."
Forward Carlos Rogers relates to Walker's intense style but said it
probably depends on the player.
"He's kind of hyper," Rogers said. "Some people who are sensitive, and
him being hyper, he has a tendency to explode for that moment but he
doesn't mean any harm by that moment. Some people might think he's
being hard on them but actually he's just trying to motivate you in
the way he knows how."
The only thing that concerns Rogers at times is that Walker might be
given a technical foul.
"I don't have a problem with it but it's just sometimes I'm saying to
myself, 'Coach Walker, please don't get a tech,"' Rogers said.
"'Please don't get too much into it.' He's just like a rookie, too,
and the referees are waiting to break him in anyway."
Just before the season was to open, Walker said: "I just have to learn
to deal with holding my emotions back a little bit."
And he intends to keep basketball in perspective.
"I'm not going to be consumed with the game; there's more to life than
that," he said. "When the game is over, we win or lose, get ready for
the next game. Don't carry on why didn't we do this and why didn't we
do that. I'm not going to take it home to my wife and kids. Look at
the film down the road, see what we can do to get better the next
game."
Walker was working for the NBA Players Association when he was
approached by the Raptors to become an assistant coach for last
season. Walker had played with Raptor executive vice-president Isiah
Thomas with the Detroit Pistons in 1991-92. When Brendan Malone was
fired at the end of the season last April, Walker took over.
"It took forever to convince me to be an assistant coach," Walker
said. "But once I got here I enjoyed it and had a good time. I'm not
one of those guys who's been a coach for years and said I can't wait
to be a head coach. But I'm a head coach and I'm going to have fun
with it."
nba.1478vpoznanovic,
Older floor will be installed for Jazz-Kings game
SALT LAKE CITY (Nov 13, 1996 - 10:54 EST) -- The Utah Jazz will play
on a re-installed older floor when they play host the Sacramento Kings
tonight.
The club also announced Tuesday that its game against San Antonio,
which was postponed Monday night because of the floor problems, has
been rescheduled for April 7 at the Delta Center.
The game was postponed by NBA officials out of concern for players'
safety. Edges of the sectioned hardwood floor were sticking up as high
as one-eighth of an inch in more than 30 places, according to Jazz
spokesman Nathan Kirkham.
The new floor was purchased last summer for $70,000 when the Jazz
changed their logo.
The problems were first noticed by maintenance personnel Monday
morning, and workers sanded and treated the affected areas with
varnish. Jazz officials blamed the problem on weakened plastic support
rods and moisture from the ice rink under the floor.
The floor had been placed over the hockey ice Saturday morning.
"That's the longest this floor had ever been laid over the ice," said
David Allred, vice president for public relations. "The thinking now
is that's probably why we had this problem."
Allred said the old floor probably will be used for a couple of
months.
"This is just fine," Jazz owner Larry Miller said of the new date for
the game. "This gives San Antonio a chance to get all of their players
back and the game will be very competitive. That will be good for the
league, good for the fans, good for everybody."
San Antonio (1-5) is missing several players because of injury, most
notably All-Star center David Robinson.
nba.1479junior,
-> #1430, dizel> Da li iko zna šta je sa Rastkom Cvetkovićem? :)
Nije našao angažman u NBA, verovatno se vraća u Evropu (čitaj:Zvezdu) :)
nba.1480junior,
-> #1434, vitez.koja> Sudjenje ocajno i na stetu Hjustona
Suđenje je bilo kao i na svim utakmicama, nisu zbog tog izgubili. :)
Ali, toliko lepih blokada na jednoj utakmici dugo nisam video
(posebno izdvajam onu Jonesa na Van Exelu i Drexlera na Bryantu).
nba.1481lexus,
-> #1471, vpoznanovic=> Ceballos tears patella tendon
Kad smo već kod ovoga ;)
Juče sam posetio NBA Live 97 site na easports.com-u.
Uglavnom, svečana prezentacija igre je održana u kući
gore navedenog košarkaša. Na slikama je moguće videti
par Lakersa i par Clippersa koji se odvaljuju od
igranja na konzoli :) Za više informacija o igri prebacite
raspravu u igre ili mi pišite mail... Mada je najbolje
da sami pogledate preko interneta. :)
nba.1482schef,
-> #1458, basrak=-> Uz to, u SORu imam mogućnost i da sačuvam poruke koje me
=-> zanimaju, dok u onom slučaj to ne bih mogao.
=- Telegram podrške i od mene ;) iz istih razloga.
I od mene. Lepo je ovako kako Vlade radi, s' tim što bi bilo lepo da pre
svih poruka ide jedna u kojoj su samo rezultati od tog dana kao uvertira onome
što sledi.
nba.1483schef,
-> #1479, junior=- Nije našao angažman u NBA, verovatno se vraća u Evropu
=- (čitaj:Zvezdu) :)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Super. :)
nba.1484vpoznanovic,
CHARLOTTE (89) AT ORLANDO (96)
CHARLOTTE
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MASON F 45 4-7 0-0 0 5 5 3 3 0 0 8
GEIGER F 28 5-7 2-2 3 6 9 2 3 2 2 12
DIVAC C 33 7-12 3-6 3 4 7 2 5 1 0 18
RICE G 38 7-16 8-8 2 0 2 2 2 0 3 23
GOLDWIRE G 22 2-4 0-0 0 1 1 3 4 0 3 5
SMITH 26 2-11 0-0 1 2 3 2 2 2 2 5
ZIDEK 5 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
CURRY 37 6-13 1-1 1 5 6 0 2 0 1 15
BURRELL 6 1-7 0-0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 3
BOGUES DNP - SORE LEFT KNEE
DELK DNP - COACH'S DECISION
ROSE DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 34-78 14-17 12 23 35 14 22 5 12 89
(.436) (.824) TEAM REBS: 5 TOTAL TO: 12(15 PTS)
ORLANDO
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
ANDERSON F 36 7-16 1-2 1 5 6 1 1 0 0 17
GRANT F 36 1-7 1-2 2 9 11 3 2 2 3 3
VAUGHN C 13 3-6 0-0 2 0 2 0 2 1 1 6
HARDAWAY G 41 4-13 3-4 1 6 7 7 3 1 1 14
SHAW G 22 4-7 2-2 1 0 1 3 0 1 4 11
SEIKALY 30 6-11 1-4 5 6 11 0 5 0 0 13
WILKINS 21 5-10 1-3 3 2 5 1 2 0 2 11
STRONG 18 5-8 0-0 3 4 7 0 2 1 0 10
ARMSTRONG 23 4-7 1-2 0 1 1 5 0 1 0 11
ROZIER DNP - COACH'S DECISION
SCHAYES DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 39-85 10-19 18 33 51 20 17 7 11 96
(.459) (.526) TEAM REBS: 11 TOTAL TO: 11(15 PTS)
CHARLOTTE 22 18 27 22 - 89
ORLANDO 27 21 19 29 - 96
BLOCKED SHOTS: CHARLOTTE - DIVAC 3, GEIGER 2, GOLDWIRE. ORLANDO -
ANDERSON 2, VAUGHN 2, SEIKALY 2.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: CHARLOTTE 7-17 (.412), GEIGER 0-1, DIVAC 1-1, RICE 1-4,
GOLDWIRE 1-2, SMITH 1-4, CURRY 2-4, BURRELL 1-1. ORLANDO 8-20 (.400),
ANDERSON 2-7, HARDAWAY 3-6, SHAW 1-2, WILKINS 0-1, ARMSTRONG 2-4.
TECHNICALS: CHARLOTTE - ILLEGAL DEFENSE, ORLANDO - ILLEGAL DEFENSE.
OFFICIALS: HUGH EVANS, NOLAN FINE, BENNIE ADAMS.
A - 17,248. T - 2:05.
CHARLOTTE (89) AT ORLANDO (96)
Nick Anderson scored 17 points and Penny Hardaway added 14 as
the Orlando Magic, playing for the first time in six days,
defeated the Charlotte Hornets, 96-89, for their third straight
victory.
The Magic, who lost their season opener, were playing for the
first time since winning a pair of games against the New Jersey
Nets in Tokyo. Orlando has won seven straight and 10 of its
last 12 games against Charlotte. All four players off Orlando's
bench scored in double figures.
"I was very pleased with this win tonight," said Orlando coach
Brian Hill. "First of all, you're scared to death coming in to
the game because it's your first game back from a long trip. I
thought this was a night where the second unit really gave us a
huge lift, 45 points and 24 rebounds from our guys off the
bench. Everyone did a great job."
Anderson, who was accused of rape by a local woman Monday,
received a standing ovation when he made a free throw to give
the Magic a 93-85 lead with 39.3 seconds left. Anderson, who
missed his first five free throws this season, denied the
accusation and was not charged by the Orlando police.
"It feels good," said Anderson about the crowd's response.
"Honestly, deep down inside, I didn't know people respected me
this much. Some feelings came through my body that I'd never
experienced before. I've been through a lot of adversity, but
never like this."
Glen Rice scored 23 points and Vlade Divac added 18 for the
Hornets, who have lost three in a row and fell below .500 for
the first time this season.
"My offense was sloppy," said Rice, who shot 7-of-16 from the
field and had three turnovers. "I missed a lot of easy shots,
turned the ball over more than I wanted to. I have to start
working a little harder on taking care of the ball, making the
open shots and stepping up and being the leader."
Dell Curry, who had 15 points, hit a three-pointer to give the
Hornets a 77-73 lead with 8:26 left, but the Magic responded
with a 12-0 burst. Darrell Armstrong, who had 11 points off the
bench, answered with a three-pointer as the Magic pulled within
77-76 with eight minutes left.
Hardaway made two free throws with 7:34 left to give the Magic
the lead for good, 78-77. Hardaway then had a steal and started
a fast break that ended with Derek Strong's dunk for an 80-77
lead. Strong, who had 10 points, had a tip-in and Hardaway
closed the run with a three-pointer for an 85-77 lead with 4:53
to play.
Anderson had 12 points and Rony Seikaly had 11 of his 13 as
Orlando took a 48-40 halftime lead.
Rice made a layup to close a 9-2 spurt as the Hornets took their
biggest lead of the game, 58-53, with 8:06 left in the third
quarter. Brian Shaw answered with a three-pointer and a pair of
free throws as the Magic tied the score, 58-58.
nba.1485vpoznanovic,
DALLAS (90) AT MINNESOTA (100)
DALLAS
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MEYER F 8 3-3 0-0 1 0 1 0 3 0 2 6
MASHBURN F 38 0-7 4-8 2 5 7 8 1 0 1 4
MONTROSS C 26 6-8 0-0 0 4 4 0 1 0 1 12
JACKSON G 39 5-15 4-5 2 6 8 5 0 2 2 15
KIDD G 37 5-15 4-6 2 2 4 5 2 3 6 16
GATLING 29 9-17 8-11 7 7 14 1 4 2 4 26
MILLER 14 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 1 3 0 3 0
MCCLOUD 28 2-7 1-3 0 3 3 4 6 2 0 5
HARPER 18 3-8 0-0 0 1 1 2 4 0 1 6
DUMAS 3 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0
ROBERTS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
WALKER DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 33-81 21-33 14 30 44 27 26 9 21 90
(.407) (.636) TEAM REBS: 10 TOTAL TO: 21(28 PTS)
MINNESOTA
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
GUGLIOTTA F 40 14-20 2-2 2 9 11 4 6 2 3 30
K GARNETT F 38 5-16 3-4 1 10 11 4 3 2 5 13
VRANKOVIC C 21 2-4 0-0 1 2 3 0 3 0 3 4
WEST G 36 7-12 2-2 2 5 7 4 2 1 2 16
PORTER G 25 5-8 3-4 1 2 3 7 1 2 2 14
D GARRETT 9 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0
ROBINSON 23 4-9 0-0 0 2 2 4 3 1 2 8
MITCHELL 30 2-9 8-8 5 3 8 2 4 0 2 12
CARR 12 1-3 1-3 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 3
PARKS 6 0-2 0-0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
HEAL DNP - COACH'S DECISION
MARBURY DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 40-84 19-23 13 35 48 25 25 11 20 100
(.476) (.826) TEAM REBS: 6 TOTAL TO: 20(25 PTS)
DALLAS 23 24 18 25 - 90
MINNESOTA 22 19 28 31 - 100
BLOCKED SHOTS: DALLAS - MILLER 2, MASHBURN, HARPER. MINNESOTA -
VRANKOVIC 4, K GARNETT 3, WEST 3, GUGLIOTTA 2, PARKS.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: DALLAS 3-13 (.231), MASHBURN 0-4, JACKSON 1-2, KIDD
2-3, MCCLOUD 0-2, HARPER 0-2. MINNESOTA 1-8 (.125), GUGLIOTTA 0-1, WEST
0-2, PORTER 1-2, ROBINSON 0-2, CARR 0-1.
TECHNICALS: DALLAS - ILLEGAL DEFENSE, MILLER.
OFFICIALS: MIKE SMITH, MONTY MCCUTCHEN, JACK NIES.
A - 14,079. T - 2:09.
DALLAS (90) AT MINNESOTA (100)
Tom Gugliotta had a season-high 30 points and 11 rebounds as the
Minnesota Timberwolves posted consecutive wins for the first
time this season with a 100-90 victory over the Dallas
Mavericks.
Minnesota (4-3), in its eighth year, had never been over .500
this late in a season. Doug West added 16 points for the
Timberwolves, who have won five straight games over the
Mavericks and evened the all-time series at 18-18.
"We've learned a lot the last couple of weeks," Gugliotta said.
"We are going out and playing hard. We are off to a good start,
but it's only been seven games, there is a lot more to go. We
definitely expected to win tonight and Tuesday night and all our
home games. We are happy about it but we have to go on the road
to New York. We are happy we played well but we can play
better."
Chris Gatling had a season-high 26 points and 14 rebounds off
the bench and Jason Kidd added a season-high 16 points for the
Mavericks, who were also trying to post consecutive wins for the
first time this season. Gatling had 15 points and Eric Montross
scored eight of his 15 as Dallas took a 47-41 halftime lead.
"It's a league record we scored over 100 two times in a row,"
jokes Minnesota coach Flip Saunders. "We coudln't get a lot of
things to go in the first half. We had a lot of easy shots we
missed."
The Timberwolves opened the third quarter with a 13-0 burst to
take the lead for good. West scored six points on the run and
Terry Porter made a three-pointer to close it as Minnesota took
a 54-47 advantage with 9:19 left in the third.
"The third quarter was our worst," Dallas coach Jim Cleamons
said. "We did not get shots and turned over the ball, and our
team was gone. It was nothing Minnesota did, other than being
more on the ball than us. We played a pretty good first half,
so I don't know why we were flat in the third quarter."
Kidd made a driving layup to close a 6-0 run and pull the
Mavericks within 67-65 with 5:31 left in the third. Montross
sank a six-foot hook shot as Dallas cut the deficit to two for
the final time at 67-65 with 46 seconds left in the period.
Sam Mitchell, who had 12 points off the bench, to cap a 7-0
burst and give Minnesota a 74-65 lead with 9:11 left.
Terry Porter had 14 points and Kevin Garnett added 13 and 11
rebounds for Minnesota.
Derek Harper made a 20-footer to end a 9-2 run as Dallas took
its biggest lead of the game, 32-24, with 7:49 left in the
second.
nba.1486vpoznanovic,
INDIANA (88) AT HOUSTON (90)
INDIANA
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MCKEY F 20 2-3 2-2 2 5 7 3 4 0 2 7
D DAVIS F 40 4-8 0-2 2 11 13 2 2 0 0 8
A DAVIS C 24 1-5 1-5 2 5 7 2 5 1 4 3
BEST G 29 9-15 4-5 0 0 0 0 4 2 3 23
MILLER G 38 4-18 5-6 2 3 5 5 2 4 4 13
ROSE 9 1-3 0-0 0 1 1 1 3 0 0 3
DAMPIER 15 1-4 5-6 3 1 4 1 5 0 1 7
ASKEW 29 5-9 0-0 1 4 5 3 6 0 1 10
FERRELL 16 5-7 1-2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 11
ALLEN 10 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0
HOIBERG 10 1-4 1-1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 3
SCOTT DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 33-77 19-29 12 31 43 19 33 9 18 88
(.429) (.655) TEAM REBS: 8 TOTAL TO: 18(25 PTS)
HOUSTON
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
ELIE F 22 3-8 1-2 1 1 2 1 5 0 0 7
BARKLEY F 44 6-13 13-17 1 8 9 2 2 2 5 25
OLAJUWON C 31 7-13 7-8 4 8 12 4 5 1 4 21
DREXLER G 37 2-6 2-5 1 7 8 5 2 2 2 6
MALONEY G 22 3-6 1-1 0 0 0 5 3 0 1 8
MACK 20 3-7 1-2 1 2 3 0 1 1 1 7
DAVIS 26 1-5 1-2 0 1 1 4 3 1 3 4
WILLIS 22 0-4 0-0 4 1 5 1 3 0 4 0
BULLARD 16 4-8 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
HARRINGTON DNP - COACH'S DECISION
JONES DNP - COACH'S DECISION
MOORE DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 29-70 26-37 12 28 40 22 24 7 20 90
(.414) (.703) TEAM REBS: 15 TOTAL TO: 21(16 PTS)
INDIANA 25 21 26 16 - 88
HOUSTON 24 23 16 27 - 90
BLOCKED SHOTS: INDIANA - MCKEY, D DAVIS, DAMPIER. HOUSTON - OLAJUWON 4,
DREXLER, MACK, BULLARD.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: INDIANA 3-13 (.231), MCKEY 1-1, BEST 1-2, MILLER 0-6,
ROSE 1-2, ASKEW 0-1, HOIBERG 0-1. HOUSTON 6-22 (.273), ELIE 0-2, BARKLEY
0-1, DREXLER 0-2, MALONEY 1-3, MACK 0-4, DAVIS 1-4, BULLARD 4-6.
TECHNICALS: INDIANA - ILLEGAL DEFENSE, HOUSTON - ELIE, BARKLEY, ILLEGAL
DEFENSE.
OFFICIALS: ED MIDDLETON, TERRY DURHAM, TONY BROTHERS.
A - 16,285. T - 2:26.
INDIANA (88) AT HOUSTON (90)
Hakeem Olajuwon scored nine of his 21 points in the final 3:35,
including the game-winning jumper with 20 seconds to go, as the
Houston Rockets edged the Indiana Pacers, 90-88, for their
eighth victory in nine games.
Charles Barkley had 25 points and 12 rebounds for the Rockets,
who held the Pacers without a field goal over the final 4 1/2
minutes as they erased a nine-point deficit.
"We were very fortunate to win this game," Rockets coach Rudy
Tomjanovich said. "We didn't play good basketball until the
fourth quarter."
Houston won its first seven games before losing in double
overtime to the Los Angeles Lakers.
"This was definitely a gutsy performance by us tonight," Barkley
said. "I played the entire game against the Lakers on Tuesday
night and I did not get a breather until the 34th minute of this
game. But it's all about winning."
Indiana's Travis Best scored a career-high 23 points, including
a jumper that gave the Pacers an 85-76 lead with 4:32 to play.
But Mario Elie made a layup and Olajuwon sank two free throws to
cut the deficit to five points with 3:35 remaining.
Reggie Miller made a free throw, but Olajuwon had a three-point
play and a jumper to give Houston its first lead since early in
the third quarter at 87-86 with 1:33 to play.
Barkley made a foul shot but Miller made two to tie it, 88-88,
with 34 seconds left. Olajuwon then made a fadeaway jumper for
the winning points.
Indiana elected not to call timeout and Miller had a 15-footer
from the left wing blocked by Olajuwon. The clock expired as a
mad scramble for the rebound ensued.
Olajuwon's fourth block of the game capped an awful game for
Miller, who scored 13 points but shot just 4-of-18 from the
field.
"The defense was the biggest factor in us coming back," said
Tomjanovich. "It won't show up in the stats, but Mario Elie and
Clyde Drexler did an excellent job holding Miller."
"The refs were a joke tonight," Miller said. "Every time
Charles and Hakeem were touched, the whistle blew. It was
really embarrassing."
Indiana's front line of Dale Davis, Antonio Davis and Derrick
McKey combined for just 18 points as the Pacers fell to 4-22
all-time at Houston.
Dale Davis had 13 rebounds. Best, a second-year guard, matched
a career high set November 9th against Washington.
Matt Bullard had four three-pointers for a season-high 12 points
for the Rockets, who shot 41 percent (29-of-70) from the field.
Barkley had 14 points and Olajuwon 11 in the first half to help
Houston grab a 47-46 edge. Best scored 11 points in the third
period to give Indiana a 72-63 bulge entering the final quarter.
nba.1487vpoznanovic,
MILWAUKEE (86) AT GOLDEN STATE (95)
MILWAUKEE
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
ROBINSON F 37 5-15 1-1 2 6 8 4 3 0 4 12
BAKER F 43 15-25 2-3 5 9 14 4 4 1 2 32
LANG C 18 1-1 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2
DOUGLAS G 29 4-7 0-0 1 1 2 4 2 1 4 9
ALLEN G 27 1-11 2-2 3 1 4 2 4 0 2 4
NEWMAN 28 3-8 1-1 0 4 4 0 4 1 1 7
GILLIAM 34 6-10 4-4 4 5 9 4 3 2 2 16
PERRY 19 1-4 0-0 0 1 1 3 1 1 1 2
WOOD 5 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
HANCOCK DNP - COACH'S DECISION
RESPERT DNP - COACH'S DECISION
WOLF DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 37-82 10-11 15 29 44 21 21 6 16 86
(.451) (.909) TEAM REBS: 3 TOTAL TO: 18(15 PTS)
GOLDEN STATE
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MULLIN F 38 7-10 2-4 2 1 3 5 2 3 3 16
SMITH F 39 12-24 2-2 2 7 9 1 3 2 2 26
FULLER C 22 3-4 0-0 1 2 3 1 2 0 0 6
PRICE G 27 3-9 0-0 1 0 1 9 1 0 2 6
SPREWELL G 45 9-20 7-9 0 4 4 2 0 2 1 26
SPENCER 16 2-2 1-3 1 2 3 0 1 0 1 5
ARMSTRONG 12 0-2 1-1 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 1
ROYAL 5 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DECLERCQ 19 3-4 3-4 2 5 7 0 2 0 1 9
COLES 17 0-0 0-0 0 3 3 3 3 0 1 0
MARSHALL DNP - COACH'S DECISION
OWES DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 39-77 16-23 9 25 34 24 14 7 11 95
(.506) (.696) TEAM REBS: 10 TOTAL TO: 12(10 PTS)
MILWAUKEE 25 26 19 16 - 86
GOLDEN STATE 27 16 28 24 - 95
BLOCKED SHOTS: MILWAUKEE - BAKER 3. GOLDEN STATE - SMITH 3, SPREWELL 3,
FULLER, MULLIN.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: MILWAUKEE 2-12 (.167), ROBINSON 1-3, BAKER 0-1, DOUGLAS
1-2, ALLEN 0-3, NEWMAN 0-1, PERRY 0-2. GOLDEN STATE 1-10 (.100), MULLIN
0-1, SMITH 0-2, PRICE 0-3, SPREWELL 1-3, ARMSTRONG 0-1.
TECHNICALS: MILWAUKEE - NEWMAN, GOLDEN STATE - ILLEGAL DEFENSE.
OFFICIALS: BILL SPOONER, TOMMIE WOOD, HUE HOLLINS.
A - 14,414. T - 2:00.
MILWAUKEE (86) AT GOLDEN STATE (95)
Latrell Sprewell and Joe Smith scored 26 points apiece and
rookie Andrew DeClercq scored eight of his nine points in the
fourth quarter as the Golden State Warriors snapped a four-game
losing streak with a 95-86 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks.
Smith grabbed nine rebounds and Chris Mullin added 16 points for
the Warriors, who recorded their first victory in four home
games. Golden State has won seven of its last eight home
meetings with the Bucks.
"It's a great win, with the way things have been going for us,"
Warriors coach Rick Adelman said. "I could say it was the best
win all year, and I'd be right. But our guys, the second half,
they really turned it up on the defensive end. We held them to
under 40 points and in the fourth quarter we were just terrific
the way we defended and handled the boards."
The Warriors held a 77-76 lead with 8:26 remaining before an
18-6 run gave them a comfortable 95-82 advantage with 80 seconds
to play. DeClercq, who was activated from the injured list
prior to the game, scored eight points, and Mullin and Sprewell
added six apiece, in the final quarter.
"We hung in there and we kept playing," Mullin said. "We got
the lead and we were able to stay on the boards. We made some
stops, got some rebounds, and made plays. He (DeClercq) sparked
us, and he has been playing pretty well in practice."
After Armon Gilliam hit a free throw with 7:03 to play to pull
the Bucks within 79-78, DeClercq and Sprewell each made two foul
shots and DeClercq converted a layup to make it 85-78 with 5:24
left.
A put-back by DeClercq and a 14-foot jumper by Smith made it
89-78 with 3:57 to play. DeClercq shot 3-of-4 from the floor
and grabbed seven rebounds in 19 minutes off the bench.
"It felt good being out there again," DeClercq said. "My
teammates have been supportive. We knew we had to play physical
and go to the boards. I had a couple of good practices and my
energy level was high. I'm just happy I could contribute to a
win for our team."
Vin Baker had 32 points and 14 rebounds and Armon Gilliam added
16 and nine for Milwaukee, which lost for just the second time
in seven games. Rookie Ray Allen was held to four points on
1-of-11 from the field.
The Warriors missed their only free-throw attempt in the first
half but shot 10-of-14 from the foul line in the third quarter
with Sprewell going 5-for-6. Golden State shot 51 percent
(39-of-77) from the field but was outrebounded, 44-34.
Milwaukee closed the first half on a 12-5 run for a 51-43 lead
at halftime. Gilliam scored six points and Newman added five in
the spurt.
The Warriors scored the first six points of the third quarter to
get within 51-49, and they pulled ahead, 71-70, on DeClercq's
free throw with one second left in the quarter.
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PHOENIX (89) AT VANCOUVER (92)
PHOENIX
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
HORRY F 34 7-13 0-2 2 3 5 2 5 0 1 16
MANNING F 32 6-10 1-2 6 9 15 3 4 0 5 13
KLEINE C 19 0-5 0-0 1 2 3 1 1 0 2 0
PERSON G 26 3-12 6-6 0 0 0 3 1 3 0 14
NASH G 46 5-9 6-6 2 5 7 12 5 1 6 17
FINLEY 33 6-12 1-2 2 5 7 2 1 0 2 14
CHAPMAN 8 1-5 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 2
GREEN 16 0-3 0-0 1 4 5 0 1 1 3 0
TISDALE 17 5-11 0-0 1 2 3 0 2 0 1 10
BROWN 9 1-2 1-1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 3
CASSELL DNP - FLU
DAVIS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 34-82 15-19 15 34 49 23 20 5 22 89
(.415) (.789) TEAM REBS: 13 TOTAL TO: 23(29 PTS)
VANCOUVER
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
B EDWARDS F 34 12-14 9-9 2 1 3 3 2 1 1 34
ROGERS F 27 5-10 0-0 1 4 5 0 3 0 0 10
REEVES C 42 4-9 0-0 1 4 5 5 3 1 3 8
PEELER G 20 3-11 0-1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 6
ANTHONY G 31 4-10 2-3 0 5 5 10 2 6 1 11
LYNCH 16 1-7 0-0 2 1 3 1 0 2 2 2
MAYBERRY 17 0-2 0-0 1 3 4 3 3 0 1 0
MOTEN 26 8-19 0-1 2 1 3 4 3 1 1 20
CHILCUTT 21 0-2 1-2 2 3 5 0 0 1 0 1
MANNING 6 0-4 0-0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0
ABDUR-RAHIM DNP - DID NOT DRESS
MOBLEY DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 37-88 12-16 12 24 36 26 17 12 11 92
(.420) (.750) TEAM REBS: 9 TOTAL TO: 11(12 PTS)
PHOENIX 30 8 23 28 - 89
VANCOUVER 25 14 26 27 - 92
BLOCKED SHOTS: PHOENIX - MANNING, FINLEY, CHAPMAN. VANCOUVER - ROGERS 2,
REEVES, PEELER, ANTHONY, CHILCUTT.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: PHOENIX 6-19 (.316), HORRY 2-5, PERSON 2-6, NASH 1-2,
FINLEY 1-2, CHAPMAN 0-4. VANCOUVER 6-27 (.222), B EDWARDS 1-2, PEELER 0-4,
ANTHONY 1-6, LYNCH 0-1, MAYBERRY 0-2, MOTEN 4-12.
TECHNICALS: PHOENIX - HORRY, ILLEGAL DEFENSE.
OFFICIALS: DAN CRAWFORD, TED BERNHARDT, JIM KINSEY.
A - 15,158. T - 2:13.
PHOENIX (89) AT VANCOUVER (92)
Blue Edwards scored a franchise-record 34 points, including four
free throws down the stretch, to lead the Vancouver Grizzlies to
a 92-89 victory over Phoenix in Suns' coach Cotton Fitzsimmons
last game.
Fitzsimmons announced his retirement before the game and
assistant coach Danny Ainge will take over.
"After we played Philadelphia and we played really poorly I was
embarrassed as a coach by the way we played, for the players and
for the franchise," Fitzsimmons said. "I take full
responsibility for our losses. It's not just tonight, I didn't
like the way we played in the last four games.
"You never want to go out losing but my guys tried hard and they
played hard. Just being in the league, I fulfilled a dream. I
wanted to be a pro coach since the seventh grade. I'd have to
say I'm a survivor, over 26 years in the league."
Lawrence Moten, who added 20 points, hit a three-pointer from
the right arc to give the Grizzlies the lead for good, 88-87
with 28.7 seconds left in the fourth quarter.
After Danny Manning was called for an offensive foul, Edwards
made two free throws for a 90-87 advantage with 18.4 seconds
left.
"Everybody likes to be in that situation where you can make the
winning basket or play defensively," Edwards said. "I didn't
want to lose the game and we didn't. It's a big win but it's
only one. It won't help us tomorrow night. We've got three
games in four nights and the only way this will help us is if we
remember what we did and repeat it."
Rookie Steve Nash scored a season-high 17 points for the Suns
(0-8), who along with the New Jersey Nets, are the only winless
teams in the NBA.
"It was a really great honor that the people responded that
way," said Nash, who is from nearby Victoria, British Columbia.
"It made me very proud and it was really exciting. I love them
a lot for supporting me and I want to make them proud. I tried
to make the most of it starting and playing a lot minutes. We've
got a new coach coming in, so we've got to build on this and
strengthen our character."
Phoenix had a chance to tie, but Robert Horry shot an air ball
on a three-point attempt. Manning caught the rebound and hit a
layup, cutting the deficit to 90-89 with 3.7 seconds left. But
Edwards, who was 12-of-14 from the field and 9-of-9 from the
free-throw line, made his final two shots with three seconds
left for the final margin.
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SEATTLE (94) AT LA CLIPPERS (78)
SEATTLE
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
D SCHREMPF F 34 4-9 1-2 2 4 6 4 4 3 4 10
KEMP F 35 9-15 2-2 5 10 15 1 5 2 3 20
MCILVAINE C 23 2-5 0-2 1 3 4 0 2 1 0 4
PAYTON G 36 8-18 7-10 1 5 6 8 2 2 6 25
HAWKINS G 34 2-8 0-0 1 2 3 2 1 2 0 4
SNOW 23 3-5 0-0 0 2 2 5 3 0 2 6
EHLO 23 0-2 1-2 1 0 1 2 2 2 0 1
PERKINS 20 5-10 2-2 1 2 3 1 0 1 1 16
STEWART 8 3-6 0-0 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 6
WINGATE 4 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2
MCMILLAN DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 37-80 13-20 13 30 43 23 22 14 16 94
(.463) (.650) TEAM REBS: 6 TOTAL TO: 16(9 PTS)
LA CLIPPERS
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
ROGERS F 26 3-5 1-2 0 2 2 3 3 3 3 8
VAUGHT F 39 5-14 1-4 4 7 11 1 3 1 1 11
DUCKWORTH C 9 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0
RICHARDSON G 22 0-4 0-0 0 4 4 2 4 0 0 0
SEALY G 34 6-16 5-5 0 2 2 3 2 1 3 17
ROBERTS 10 1-2 2-2 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 4
OUTLAW 36 2-9 1-4 5 6 11 2 3 0 4 5
MURRAY 22 3-6 1-1 3 1 4 0 1 0 1 7
DEHERE 9 0-2 3-4 0 1 1 1 3 1 3 3
PIATKOWSKI 14 4-5 0-0 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 9
D MARTIN 18 5-7 1-3 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 12
WRIGHT 1 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
TOTALS 240 30-72 15-25 12 30 42 14 21 7 20 78
(.417) (.600) TEAM REBS: 11 TOTAL TO: 21(14 PTS)
SEATTLE 29 20 23 22 - 94
LA CLIPPERS 19 17 25 17 - 78
BLOCKED SHOTS: SEATTLE - MCILVAINE 4, STEWART. LA CLIPPERS - OUTLAW 4,
DUCKWORTH 3, ROBERTS 2.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: SEATTLE 7-18 (.389), D SCHREMPF 1-4, PAYTON 2-4,
HAWKINS 0-2, EHLO 0-2, PERKINS 4-6. LA CLIPPERS 3-9 (.333), ROGERS 1-1,
RICHARDSON 0-1, SEALY 0-1, OUTLAW 0-1, DEHERE 0-1, PIATKOWSKI 1-1, D
MARTIN 1-3.
TECHNICALS: NONE.
OFFICIALS: RON GARRETSON, JOE DEROSA, KEVIN FEHR.
A - 6,238. T - 2:04.
SEATTLE (94) AT LA CLIPPERS (78)
Gary Payton scored nine of his 25 points in the opening quarter
as the Seattle SuperSonics raced to a 10-point lead and never
trailed, defeating the Los Angeles Clippers in a Pacific
Division matchup, 94-78.
Payton added eight assists and six rebounds despite playing with
a slight groin injury for Seattle (6-2).
"I am going to play whether I am hurt or not," said Payton. "I
just won't pratice for a few games, probably this whole road
trip. I am just going to play hard, they can't get me off my
game. I'll punish them by my good playing."
Shawn Kemp had 20 points and grabbed 15 boards for the
first-place Sonics, which twice owned a 16-point lead, including the
final margin.
"I am not happy with my condition," Kemp said. "I need to
get on a treadmill to get myself into the best shape I can be
in. I started a little slow this year."
Malik Sealy scored 17 points to lead the Clippers (4-3), who
could only get as close as 64-59 on a 20-foot jumper by Darrick
Martin that capped a 14-3 run with 1:49 remaining in the third
period. Martin had five points in the run and finished with 12
points in 18 minutes off the bench.
Loy Vaught added 11 points and 11 rebounds for Los Angeles,
which grabbed an 8-4 lead midway through the first period on a
17-foot jumper by Sealy.
"A couple of guys fell asleep in the first half tonight, you
can't do that against good teams," said Clippers coach Bill
Fitch. "Good teams make you pay for your mistakes, it makes
hard to play from behind against gopod teams. Evertime we made a
mistake, they made us pay for them. It is a sign of a good team
when they make you pay for all your sins."
Seattle went on to score the next six points and claimed the
lead for good at 4:47 on a three-pointer by Payton.
Sam Perkins scored 16 points in 20 minutes for Seattle,
including 4-for-6 from three-point territory. The Sonics made
seven three-pointers overall, shooting 39 percent.
"I didn't want to play a slow game," said Seattle coach George
Karl. "The Clippers have too much confidence in the tempo game.
We came out strong in the first half, our defense was especially
strong. We had a little in the third, it is sometimes hard to
sustain big leads. We had a strong finish in the fourth quarter
though."
"We had a good defensive effort for most of the game," said
Kemp. "We've tried to force them to take bad shots, to turn the
ball over."
Stanley Roberts played just 10 minutes for Los Angeles, going
1-of-2 from the field and blocking two shots before
leaving the game with a bruised hip. He will not play in
tomorrow's contest across town against the Lakers.
"They have so many versatile players," said Roberts. "They are
a talented team and they are going to get better as the year
goes on."
The Sonics extended the lead to 61-45 with 5:55 remaining in the
third on Detlef Schrempf's two free throws.
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TORONTO (96) AT NEW YORK (99)
TORONTO
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
WILLIAMS F 43 5-13 1-2 0 3 3 2 5 4 3 13
JONES F 29 3-4 2-2 1 7 8 0 5 1 2 8
CAMBY C 36 9-14 11-13 1 1 2 0 4 4 1 29
CHRISTIE G 40 4-7 1-2 0 6 6 4 3 2 2 10
STOUDAMIRE G 42 10-25 3-3 1 3 4 13 3 4 4 26
DAVIS 11 1-4 0-0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2
ROGERS 25 1-4 2-2 1 5 6 0 5 0 1 4
WHITESIDE 6 1-3 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
EARL 7 0-1 1-2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
LOHAUS 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TABAK DNP - SORE LEFT HEEL
WRIGHT DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 34-75 21-26 5 25 30 20 26 15 13 96
(.453) (.808) TEAM REBS: 9 TOTAL TO: 19(23 PTS)
NEW YORK
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
JOHNSON F 25 1-3 0-0 2 3 5 0 3 2 2 2
OAKLEY F 32 5-12 0-0 6 9 15 4 3 0 2 10
EWING C 39 9-16 7-10 1 8 9 1 5 0 6 25
HOUSTON G 26 3-8 3-3 0 2 2 1 3 0 6 11
WARD G 39 3-6 6-8 2 2 4 11 4 2 1 13
WALLACE 18 2-3 0-0 0 1 1 1 2 0 5 4
STARKS 35 9-16 6-7 1 4 5 6 2 1 2 27
BROOKS 9 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0
B WILLIAMS 17 2-4 3-8 3 1 4 0 0 0 0 7
JENT DNP - COACH'S DECISION
MCCARTY DNP - COACH'S DECISION
H WILLIAMS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 34-69 25-36 15 30 45 25 25 5 24 99
(.493) (.694) TEAM REBS: 8 TOTAL TO: 24(21 PTS)
TORONTO 26 21 29 20 - 96
NEW YORK 19 28 23 29 - 99
BLOCKED SHOTS: TORONTO - CAMBY 4, WILLIAMS 2, CHRISTIE 2. NEW YORK -
EWING 3, B WILLIAMS 3, WALLACE.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: TORONTO 7-27 (.259), WILLIAMS 2-8, CAMBY 0-2, CHRISTIE
1-2, STOUDAMIRE 3-10, DAVIS 0-2, ROGERS 0-1, WHITESIDE 1-2. NEW YORK 6-14
(.429), JOHNSON 0-1, HOUSTON 2-5, WARD 1-2, STARKS 3-5, BROOKS 0-1.
TECHNICALS: TORONTO - ILLEGAL DEFENSE, HEAD COACH WALKER.
OFFICIALS: BOB DELANEY, DAVID JONES, TIM DONAGHY.
A - 19,763. T - 2:25.
TORONTO (96) AT NEW YORK (99)
John Starks scored 13 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter as
the New York Knicks rallied for their fourth win in five games,
a 99-96 victory over the Toronto Raptors.
Starks saw extensive playing time in the second half after Allan
Houston turned an ankle early in the third quarter. He had 10
points in a 20-4 burst that turned an eight-point deficit into a
91-83 lead with 3:33 to play.
"I think that John gave us a good lift off the bench," Knicks
coach Jeff Van Gundy said. "Allan was a little banged, so I
stayed with John and he played very well for us. But Allan's
OK. He was able to come back in at the end."
Patrick Ewing had 25 points and nine rebounds for the Knicks,
who beat Toronto for the second time this season and improved to
6-0 all-time against the Raptors, who entered the NBA last year.
Rookie Marcus Camby scored a season-high 29 points and Damon
Stoudamire added 26 and 13 assists for Toronto. Camby, the
second overall pick in the draft, is averaging 26 points in his
last three games.
"It was real tough but we should have gotten the win tonight,"
Camby said. "They are a quality team. They say the Knicks are
supoposed to go to the NBA Finals, but we played them tough
twice, so that says a lot about our team."
A basket by Walt Williams gave the Raptors a 79-71 lead with
11:27 to play, but Starks scored 10 points and Ewing seven over
the next eight minutes. A three-pointer by Starks completed the
burst and gave the Knicks an eight-point lead.
"Give them credit, they made it a helter-skelter game," Ewing
said. "They trapped us and took us out of our post game and
rolls. Fortunately, we toughened up our defense in the fourth
quarter."
"I just wanted to come out and be aggressive," Starks said.
"Against a team that presses, you have to take it to the basket.
Once you break the press, you have to attack it."
Another basket by Williams pulled Toronto within 95-94 with 51
seconds left. Ewing made two free throws and Stoudamire missed
an off-balance shot with 25 seconds to go.
After New York's Buck Williams missed two foul shots, Stoudamire
and Starks each made a pair, leaving the Knicks with a 99-96
lead with 11 seconds to go. Stoudamire drove and passed to the
6-11 Camby, who missed a three-pointer as time expired.
"The Knicks are lucky to get out of here with a win," Raptors
coach Darrell Walker said. "I never say anything but my guys
came in here and competed. We didn't call a timeout, we went
with our gut feeling and Marcus had a shot and he missed it.
There wasn't any confusion. I considered a timeout but Damon
and I wanted to go for it and we did."
Charlie Ward had 13 points and 11 assists and Charles Oakley had
10 points and 15 rebounds for the Knicks, who shot 49 percent
(34-of-69) from the field and held a 45-30 rebounding edge.
Williams scored 13 points and former Knick Doug Christie added
10 for the Raptors, who shot 45 percent (34-of-75).
Stoudamire had 11 and Camby nine as Toronto raced to a 26-19
lead after one period. The Raptors held a 47-38 advantage but
Ewing scored four points and Ward made three free throws in a
9-0 run that closed the first half and tied the game. Camby and
Stoudamire helped the Raptors build a 76-70 lead entering the
final period.
"I think in the first half, we were not in the right position to
break their press," Starks said. "But we did a better job in
the second half."
Houston returned in the closing seconds and finished with 11
points.
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Utah president Layden resting after gall bladder surgery
SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah Jazz president Frank Layden is resting
comfortably in good condition Thursday after a 2Ż-hour gall bladder
operation Wednesday night.
Layden complained of stomach pains Wednesday and underwent tests at
LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. Doctors removed his gall bladder and
some gall stones. His release date from the hospital has not been
determined.
Layden was named general manager of the team in May 1979, and added
the role of head coach in December 1981. He compiled a 277-294 record
until stepping down in 1988, earning NBA Coach of the Year honors in
1983-84 when the Jazz won the Midwest Division.
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Kings loses Grant indefinitely to rotator cuff surgery
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Sacramento Kings forward Brian Grant underwent
successful arthroscopic surgery Thursday to repair an incomplete tear
in his in his right rotator cuff and will be out indefinitely, the
team announced.
The procedure was performed by team physician Dr. Richard Marder at
the University of California-Davis Medical Center. Grant will begin
rehabilitation Monday and will be sidelined for an unspecificed amount
of time.
Grant, second on the team in scoring and rebounding, originally
suffered the injury during the offseason and missed the majority of
training camp and the first five preseason games.
The 6-9 Grant is averaging 12.8 points and eight rebounds per game.
After playing collegiately at Xavier (Ohio), he was the eighth overall
pick in the 1994 NBA draft.
Grant had missed the last two games, both losses for struggling
Sacramento (2-5). The Kings have used center Olden Polynice at power
forward in Grant's absence.
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Old-timers Howell, Risen join Hall of Fame nominees
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- The Basketball Hall of Fame Thursday added
Bailey Howell and Arnie Risen as the two nominees for election from
the veteran's screening committee.
Howell was a two-time All-American forward at Mississippi State and
still ranks as the school's all-time leader in rebounding, free throws
made and attempted, and is second in scoring. He enjoyed a 12-year NBA
career (1959-71) with Detroit, Baltimore, Boston and Philadelphia,
appearing in six All-Star Games and winning two NBA Championships as a
Celtic.
Risen played professionally for 13 seasons with Indianapolis of the
National Basketball League, Rochester of the NBL/NBA and the NBA's
Boston Celtics. The forward was a member of two NBA Championship
teams, was a three-time All-Star and perenially ranked among the
league's leading rebounders.
The Hall of Fame announced its 15 regular nominees on Nov. 5. The
seven players nominated were Alex English, Dennis Johnson, Gus
Johnson, Bobby Jones, Sidney Moncrief, Jo Jo White and Jamaal Wilkes.
English, Jones and Moncrief are first-time nominees.
The seven coaches nominated were Alex Hannum, Jerry Tarkanian, Pete
Carril, Don Haskins, Jim Phelan, John Thompson and Tex Winter along
with contributor Lee Williams. Hannum is the only first-time nominee
among the coaches.
Joan Crawford and Denise Curry were named as the candidates from the
women's committee on Tuesday. Crawford starred in the AAU leagues in
the 1950s and '60s. Curry was a four-year starter and three-time
All-American (1979-81) at UCLA.
Nominees from the International Committee will be announced next week.
An individual needs 18 of 24 votes from the Honors Committee for
induction. The new inductees will be named on Feb. 3, 1997.
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Ceballos sidelined 6-8 weeks
LOS ANGELES (Nov 14, 1996 - 19:30 EST) -- The news was bad, but it
could have been worse. Los Angeles Lakers forward Cedric Ceballos will
be sidelined 6-8 weeks because of a partial tear of the patella tendon
in his right knee.
Ceballos, 27, landed awkwardly while making a fast-break layup with
just under four minutes remaining in San Antonio's 95-83 victory over
the visiting Lakers on Wednesday night.
Ceballos had to be wheeled off the court after the injury, which was
diagnosed after the game and confirmed Thursday when he was examined
by team physician Dr. Stephen Lombardo of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic
Clinic.
In his third season with the Lakers, Ceballos has averaged 10.8 points
and 6.6 rebounds in eight games. He averaged 21.7 points and 8.0
rebounds in the 1994-95 season, when he was selected to play in the
NBA All-Star game, and 21.2 points and 6.9 rebounds last season.
"It's certainly a blow," Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said
Thursday, shortly after hearing the news. "But it's not what you fear
most, and that's losing the athlete for the season."
The Lakers were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs last
spring. Ceballos is only one of five returning players from that team.
The current squad is built around center Shaquille O'Neal, who signed
a seven-year, $120 million free-agent contract in July.
Kupchak said he spoke with coach Del Harris and executive vice
president of basketball operations Jerry West after hearing the news.
"We don't think at this time we're going to go outside the
organization and pick up a player," Kupchak said. "We're hopeful that
Jerome (Kersey) or Trevor (Wilson), knock on wood, if they continue to
progress, who know the system, will be available."
The Lakers didn't make an immediate roster move and Kupchak said none
was expected in the next few days.
Kersey and Wilson, both forwards signed during the offseason, have
been on the injured list since the season started, Kersey with a
stress fracture of the left foot and Wilson with tendinitis in his
left knee.
"With Jerome's original timetable, which was 2-4 weeks, we're there,"
Kupchak said. "It's really up to him, how he feels, and whether our
doctor is going to give him a green light.
"We're hopeful we can make do with what we have in house at least
until (Kersey or Wilson) can come back. We're very hopeful that one
will be activated within a week or 10 days."
Kupchak said the versatility of several Lakers players, like shooting
guard Eddie Jones, backup forward Corie Blount and swing man Kobe
Bryant, would help.
"We brought Jerome in here to back up Cedric," Kupchak said. "Between
Jerome, Corie (Blount) and Eddie, we should be OK.
"Injuries are part of it. San Antonio had four starters out last
night. Atlanta has some guys out. We'd rather get our injuries now
than in April or May."
As far as who would replace Ceballos in the starting lineup, Kupchak
said that was up to Harris and the coaching staff.
"Obviously, Eddie is a 6-6 small forward if need be," Kupchak said.
"Corie Blount's a 6-10 guy. It depends on who we're matched up with."
If Jones moves to small forward, veteran Byron Scott could open at
shooting guard.
Kupchak said he hadn't spoken with Ceballos since the injury.
"Knowing Cedric, he's probably down. And disappointed," Kupchak said.
"And he's probably trying to figure out ways to speed his recovery and
start working out, which he obviously can't do yet. He has that kind
of personality."
The Lakers (5-3) didn't practice Thursday. On Friday night at the
Forum they play the Los Angeles Clippers, who have won four of six
this season.
nba.1495vpoznanovic,
Magic player denies rape allegation; says woman wants money
ORLANDO, Fla. (Nov 14, 1996 - 13:30 EST) -- Orlando Magic guard Nick
Anderson has denied a rape allegation, saying that he is a target of
extortion by the woman and a black separatist group.
The woman filed a complaint with police Oct. 8, alleging she was raped
Feb. 26 at her home in Orlando, said police spokesman Bill Mulloy.
Anderson denied the accusation at a news conference Wednesday night at
Orlando Arena.
Anderson and his attorneys said the group representing the woman sent
a letter on Sept. 18, demanding $600,000 by Oct. 1 or that a police
complaint would be filed.
Anderson said he rejected the demand.
"These allegations are totally untrue, totally false," Anderson said
before breaking down in tears.
The group supporting the woman, the Pan Afrikan InterNational Movement
(PAIN), scheduled a news conference later today to publicize the
allegation. Kwane Akkebala, assistant chief elder of the group,
refused to talk about the claim beforehand.
Anderson was interviewed by police Oct. 18. Police refused to discuss
the case because it is under investigation.
nba.1496vpoznanovic,
Phoenix coach thinking of quitting after winless start
PHOENIX (Nov 14, 1996 - 19:24 EST) -- The game plan was for Phoenix's
Cotton Fitzsimmons to finish his 21st season in the NBA, then turn the
Suns over to coach-in-waiting Danny Ainge.
But the Suns' worst start in 11 years has Fitzsimmons dejected enough
to think about moving the timetable up, according to a published
report.
The 65-year-old Fitzsimmons refused Thursday to discuss the story
published hours before in the Tribune (Ariz.) Newspapers.
"No way. Just ask me about basketball," he told Canadian Press after a
morning shootaround at GM Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, where
the Suns were to play the Vancouver Grizzlies on Thursday night.
Fitzsimmons hurried his players into a waiting bus.
"You've got to understand, I'm my own boss," said Fitzsimmons, who
retained his title of senior executive vice president when he took
over coaching chores Jan. 17. "I do what I want."
Both the Suns and Grizzlies, a second-year expansion team, took 0-7
records into the game. In the Suns' case, a loss would leave them one
defeat shy of the worst start in franchise history -- nine consecutive
losses in 1985-86.
Fitzsimmons did not return telephone calls by The Associated Press to
his room at the team hotel. General manager Bryan Colangelo told KTAR
Radio in Phoenix that Fitzsimmons had done nothing to change his
status.
"Tonight Cotton is the coach of the Phoenix Suns," he said.
Team president Jerry Colangelo was not available for comment. But he
told the Tribune he'd noticed a change in the normally gregarious
Fitzsimmons.
"He's not his effervescent self. Everyone can see that," said
Colangelo, who first hired Fitzsimmons in 1970. "If he decides he
can't do it or doesn't want to do it, it's totally his call. This
isn't his fault."
Fitzsimmons, who is No. 7 in NBA coaching victories, said he was
embarrassed by the emotionless way the team played in a 112-95 loss at
Philadelphia last Saturday night.
"The fact that I can't get it from them is embarrassing to me as a
coach. It's embarrassing for the franchise. I thought we'd be better,"
he said. "I hate to be in this fix. But that's where we are today."
The Suns have struggled since trading Charles Barkley to Houston
during the offseason.
Normally one of the league's high-octane teams, they have yet to score
100 points in a game this season -- another franchise record-low
streak -- and rank near the bottom in points allowed, scoring and
rebounding.
The Suns have two centers on the injured list -- Mark Bryant and John
"Hot Rod" Williams -- and guard Kevin Johnson has been sidelined since
undergoing hernia surgery in late September.
Jerry Colangelo said his team was looking to deal for "an impact
player," but would not discuss prospects.
The Tribune said the Suns are interested in trading for Portland
forward Clifford Robinson.
Ainge, who had no previous coaching experience, was hired as an
assistant in May. He played the final three seasons of his 14-year NBA
career with Phoenix before taking a television analyst job with TNT in
1995.
During stints with the Atlanta Hawks, Buffalo Braves, Kansas City
Kings, San Antonio Spurs and seven-plus seasons with Phoenix,
Fitzsimmons coached teams to an 832-774 record prior to the trip to
Vancouver.
He also was director of player personnel for Golden State during the
1976-77 season.
He stepped upstairs in 1992, allowing protege Paul Westphal to take
over a team that included the newly acquired Barkley. Westphal had
been groomed during four years as an assistant, but he was fired after
the injury-plagued 1995-96 team got off to a 14-19 start.
nba.1497vpoznanovic,
Phoenix coach quits, passes reins to assistant coach
PHOENIX (Nov 15, 1996 - 00:54 EST) -- Cotton Fitzsimmons quit as coach
of the Phoenix Suns, turning over the winless team to assistant Danny
Ainge following a 92-89 loss Thursday night to the Vancouver
Grizzlies.
Fitzsimmons had planned to accede to Ainge at the end of this, his
21st season as an NBA coach. But the Suns' worst start in 11 years led
Fitzsimmons to change that plan.
After losing Thursday night, the Suns fell to 0-8, while allowing the
Grizzles to win for the first time after seven losses this season.
Fitzsimmons, who also is senior vice president of the Suns, said he
was stepping aside now "in the best interest of the club."
"By me stepping down this early in the season, the team will have 74
games to straighten themselves out and head in the right direction,"
he said in a statement released by the team.
"Our game plan was for me to turn this club over to Danny Ainge at the
end of the season," the statement said. "This was something we had
tried and done successfully in the past. Unfortunately, it was not
working this time.
Earlier in the day, the 65-year-old Fitzsimmons had refused to discuss
media reports of his retirement.
"No way. Just ask me about basketball," he told Canadian Press after a
morning shootaround at GM Place in Vancouver before hustling his
players into a waiting bus. "You've got to understand, I'm my own
boss. I do what I want."
The team said president Jerry Colangelo, general manager Bryan
Colangelo, Fitzsimmons and Ainge planned to conduct a news conference
Friday on the changes.
After the loss Thursday night, Phoenix is just a defeat shy of the
franchise record set in the 1985-86 season.
Fitzsimmons, No. 7 in NBA coaching victories, said he was embarrassed
by the emotionless way the team played in a 112-95 loss at
Philadelphia last Saturday night.
"The fact that I can't get it from them is embarrassing to me as a
coach. It's embarrassing for the franchise. I thought we'd be better,"
Fitzsimmons had said. "I hate to be in this fix. But that's where we
are today."
Jerry Colangelo was not available for comment, but he told the Tribune
(Ariz.) Newspapers he'd noticed a change in the normally gregarious
Fitzsimmons.
"He's not his effervescent self. Everyone can see that," said
Colangelo, who first hired Fitzsimmons in 1970. "If he decides he
can't do it or doesn't want to do it, it's totally his call. This
isn't his fault."
The Suns have struggled since trading Charles Barkley to Houston
during the offseason.
Normally one of the league's high-octane teams, they have yet to score
100 points in a game this season -- another franchise record-low
streak -- and rank near the bottom in points allowed, scoring and
rebounding.
The Suns have two centers on the injured list -- Mark Bryant and John
"Hot Rod" Williams -- and guard Kevin Johnson has been sidelined since
undergoing hernia surgery in late September.
Jerry Colangelo said his team was looking to deal for "an impact
player," but would not discuss prospects.
The Tribune said the Suns are interested in trading for Portland
forward Clifford Robinson.
Ainge, who had no previous coaching experience, was hired as an
assistant in May. He played the final three seasons of his 14-year NBA
career with Phoenix before taking a television analyst job with TNT in
1995.
During stints with the Atlanta Hawks, Buffalo Braves, Kansas City
Kings, San Antonio Spurs and seven-plus seasons with Phoenix,
Fitzsimmons coached teams to an 832-775 record.
He also was director of player personnel for Golden State during the
1976-77 season.
He stepped upstairs in 1992, allowing protege Paul Westphal to take
over a team that included the newly acquired Barkley. Westphal had
been groomed during four years as an assistant, but he was fired after
the injury-plagued 1995-96 team got off to a 14-19 start.
nba.1498vpoznanovic,
Cotton Fitzsimmons' career coaching record
Regular season W L Pct
1970-71 Phoenix 48 34 .585
1971-72 Phoenix 49 33 .598
1972-73 Atlanta 46 36 .561
1973-74 Atlanta 35 47 .427
1974-75 Atlanta 31 51 .378
1975-76 Atlanta 28 46 .378
1977-78 Buffalo 27 55 .329
1978-79 Kansas City 48 34 .585
1979-80 Kansas City 47 35 .573
1980-81 Kansas City 40 42 .488
1981-82 Kansas City 30 52 .366
1982-83 Kansas City 45 37 .549
1983-84 Kansas City 38 44 .463
1984-85 San Antonio 41 41 .500
1985-86 San Antonio 35 47 .427
1988-89 Phoenix 55 27 .671
1989-90 Phoenix 54 28 .659
1990-91 Phoenix 55 27 .671
1991-92 Phoenix 53 29 .646
1995-96 Phoenix 27 22 .551
1996-97 Phoenix 0 8 .000
Totals 832 775 .518
Playoffs W L Pct.
1973 Atlanta 2 4 .333
1979 Kansas City 1 4 .200
1980 Kansas City 1 2 .333
1981 Kansas City 7 8 .467
1984 Kansas City 0 3 .000
1985 San Antonio 2 3 .400
1986 San Antonio 0 3 .000
1989 Phoenix 7 5 .583
1990 Phoenix 9 7 .563
1991 Phoenix 1 3 .250
1992 Phoenix 4 4 .500
1996 Phoenix 1 3 .250
Totals 35 49 .417
nba.1499vpoznanovic,
Sonics cut Spencer
SEATTLE (Nov 14, 1996 - 07:06 EST) -- Question: Which Sonic has
appeared in the fewest regular-season games ever?
Answer: Elmore Spencer, who was waived by the team Wednesday after
playing in only one game this season -- for a total of five minutes --
without scoring a point.
That barely nudges Mike Champion (1988-89), Greg Ballard (1988-89),
John Shumate (1980-81) and Willie Wise (1977-78) out of the category.
All four played in two games, although Champion played only four
minutes.
Spencer's waiving also means the team will likely announce the signing
of another reserve big man Thursday to a "make-good" contract similar
to that signed by the 7-foot, 270-pound Spencer, who would have been
guaranteed a full year's salary had he been on the roster Thursday.
"We want to continue to pursue other players and we were in a
situation where if we kept (Spencer) much longer, we would have had to
tie him up (for the year)," said coach George Karl. "This frees us up
now to bring in other guys."
One of those other guys won't be former Sonic Benoit Benjamin,
however, who was waived by Toronto on Tuesday. "I think the scars
there are too deep," Karl said.
Whoever it is will also have to sign for the minimum, because that's
all the Sonics can fit under the salary cap.
The Sonics do have two players eligible to come off the injured
reserve list -- center Steve Scheffler and guard Greg Graham. But
Scheffler hasn't recovered from a right foot injury and the Sonics
need another big man more than they need Graham.
PAYTON MISSES PRACTICE: Guard Gary Payton was one of four Sonics to
sit out of practice Wednesday, although he is expected to play in
Thursday night's game in Los Angeles against the Clippers.
Payton didn't practice while resting a groin pull suffered during
Tuesday night's 110-94 win over Golden State in which Payton played 41
minutes.
"Knowing Gary, he will play," Karl said. "He's a gamer."
Payton would not talk to reporters after Wednesday's practice.
Also sitting out practice where Nate McMillan, whose groin injury will
hold him out until at least Tuesday's game at Toronto, Scheffler and
Craig Ehlo, who had some emergency dental work done.
nba.1500vpoznanovic,
Longtime Jazz PA announcer has seen the good, bad and the ugly
(Nov 14, 1996 - 07:42 EST) - Midway through the fourth quarter of a
close game against Seattle, public address announcer Dan Roberts waits
for a timeout to end. As the Jazz return to the floor, he pops his
trademark question on the crowd of 19,911 that has invaded the Delta
Center for 2 hours of NBA action.
"Hey everybody," Roberts shrieks, "how 'bout this Jazz?"
Once again, Roberts' timing is perfect. Once again, he elicits the
response he seeks. The crowd roars its approval, and the Jazz --
eventually -- manage to defeat the Sonics.
Roberts is in his 26th season as the arena voice of professional
basketball in Utah. That voice -- if not his face -- is as well-known
around here as Hot Rod Hundley's.
Why does he do it?
Certainly, there's more to it than Roberts' $500-per-month salary and
the three season tickets tossed his way by the Jazz.
"Simple," he says, "I love being part of the game."
The Jazz -- and their fans -- seem to love Roberts.
On his 50th birthday -- prior to the Jazz-Sonics season opener -- the
club provided a gigantic 50th birthday cake.
"He's one of the best on the league," said David Allred, the Jazz's
vice president of media relations.
"He works hard," added owner Larry Miller. "He's developed a special
relationship with our fans."
Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan agreed, saying, "He does a great job. He's very
professional. From what I hear, he tries to acknowledge everybody the
same way. Some places, they announce their guys with a great, big,
boisterous voice and then announce the other team like, 'Oh, well.'
That's not real fair to the players. And that's not the way Dan does
it."
Often, however, he has been the target for criticism from out-of-town
media members who blast his style.
He acknowledges: "I'm very biased. But I also try not to let it come
through."
Asked about those critics, Roberts quickly lists those who have
written nasty things about him: Art Spander of the San Francisco
Examiner, Kerry Eggers of The (Portland) Oregonian, and Bob Ryan of
the Boston Globe.
According to Roberts, Spander directly blamed him for an on-court
brawl at the end of Game 2 in the 1987 playoffs with Golden State.
"He said that I was a hip, flip DJ who helped cause the fight by
whipping the crowd into a frenzy," Roberts said.
Did he whip the crowd into a frenzy?
"Absolutely," Roberts said. "But I don't think I can take credit for
any fight."
Meanwhile, Eggers wrote that Roberts was "a broken-down tractor-pull
announcer." Ryan called him the "clown of the Salt Palace," for which
he later apologized.
Roberts was born in Ely, Nev., but he has lived in Utah most of his
life. He attended Skyline High, played quarterback and graduated in
1965.
"That was the last year Skyline was really bad," he said. "They've
been winning ever since I left."
Roberts started out as the public address announcer for the Utah Stars
of the ABA in 1971. Hired by public relations director Harvey
Kirkpatrick, Roberts heard that his closest competition for the job
was a woman.
"Harvey," he said, "was way, way ahead of his time."
Roberts' love affair with basketball -- and Utah fans' love affair
with Roberts -- bloomed during those crazy days in the ABA.
"I was the first PA guy to introduce Moses Malone," he said. "That's
one small claim to fame. ... But the whole experience was wonderful.
The games were wide open -- back and forth. I saw guys like Rick Barry
and Dr. J. Even Wilt Chamberlain, who was the coach of San Diego for
awhile."
One night, during a Utah-Denver game, Roberts didn't think much of a
call by referee Jack Madden.
"I said, 'Oddly enough, the foul was called on ...," Roberts said.
"Well, Jack didn't like that one bit. He stopped the game, came over
to the scorer's table and told me -- if I did that again -- he's kick
my (rear) out."
Fun times in the ABA.
But, alas, the Stars folded in 1975.
Roberts was "very depressed," though he wasn't away from basketball
long. Roberts announced games for the Utah Prospectors of old Western
Basketball League, and Jerry Pimm also hired him to announce
University of Utah games.
Roberts was back in business.
The highlight of Roberts' tenure at Utah came in March of 1979. He
announced NCAA championship game between Magic Johnson's Michigan
State team and Larry Bird of Indiana State.
"It was a magical night," he said. "Those kind of games just don't
happen very often."
A few months later, the Jazz moved from New Orleans. Roberts
auditioned for the job and David Fredman, then the team's public
relations director and now an assistant coach, hired him.
"It was a tough decision because we had some good candidates,"
recalled Fredman. "But Dan had a voice -- deep and powerful -- that I
thought could excite a crowd. ... We also had a good PA guy in New
Orleans, and Dan sounded a lot like him."
From Game 1, Roberts has been the arena voice of the Jazz. Just don't
ask him much about Game 1.
"I don't remember any of the players or even who won," he said. "But I
remember the Osmonds sang the National Anthem."
Roberts' tenure with the Jazz apparently ended in the spring of 1985,
when he moved to California in search of "greener pastures." By the
following fall, however, Roberts had moved back to Utah.
Quickly, Roberts re-established his niche in Utah basketball circles.
Since then, he has worked playoff games, the 1993 All-Star Game and
hundreds of regular-season games.
Through all the excitement and criticism, Roberts keeps his cool --
except, perhaps, when it's time to exhort the Jazz and their fans.
"I love this game," he said. "And I love this team."
nba.1501vitez.koja,
-> #1480, junior#=>> Sudjenje ocajno i na stetu Hjustona
#=> Suđenje je bilo kao i na svim utakmicama, nisu zbog tog izgubili.
#=> :)
Daj, dobili su tri tehničke od kojih su najmanje dve neopravdane
(ok, ono za korake sam preterao)... Inače ovi tvoji Reptorsi se nešto
razigrali (ili ove sezone navijaš za Grizlije? ;)
sk
nba.1502junior,
-> #1486, vpoznanovic> BARKLEY F 44 6-13 13-17 1 8 9 ... 25
> Charles Barkley had 25 points and 12 rebounds for the Rockets,
Ko ovde laže? Jel' 12 ili 9 skokova?
nba.1503junior,
-> #1501, vitez.koja> (ok, ono za korake sam preterao)... Inače ovi tvoji Reptorsi se
> nešto razigrali (ili ove sezone navijaš za Grizlije? ;)
Pu, pu .. daleko bilo. Ko će da navija za one seljake? :)
Ono su bre Indijanci, Toronto je za njih kultura .. :)
A da su se razigrali, jesu. Sad su otpustili Benjamina, Marcus Camby
(ovogodišnji pik) je zaigrao u prvoj petorci, dobija po 30-ak minuta
po meču, a igra fantastično (zadnje 2 utakmice u startnoj petorci:
prosek 26 poena, 4 skoka, 4 blokade, 2 ukradene, BEZ izgubljenih lopti :),
uz standardno dobrog Damona i Carlosa (Rogers) imamo veoma konkurentnu
ekipu.
Ove godine teško da ćemo ući u play-off, uspeh bi bio i osvajanje
25-30 pobeda, što je, ja mislim, sad i realnost. Važno je napomenuti da imamo
_najmlađi_ tim u NBA-u, jer nijedan igrač nema više od 4 godine iskustva.
A i trener nam ima 35 godina, tako da je to, u pravom smislu reči, perspektivna
ekipa. Ako uzmemo još 1 dobrog pika, a kad odu ovi matorci za godinu-dve-tri
(Ewing, Barkley, Jordan, Rodman, Oukley, Dumars, Stockton, Malone,...) imaćemo
ekipu za titulu. :)
nba.1504vpoznanovic,
Da ne bih svima pojedinačno odgovarao, evo jednog kolektivnog odgovora u
vezi predloga za organizaciju slanja NBA vijesti u ovu temu...
Vidim da ste se u jednakom broju izjasnili za dosadašnji način slanja i
za način kojim bi se novosti slale u obliku fajlova vezanih uz poruke.
Ovih dana sam dosta razmišljao o tome, pokušavajući da osmislim metod
kojim bi i jedna i druga strana bile podjednako zadovoljne, ali nikako
nisam uspijevao pronaći sistem pomoću kojeg bi to sve bilo izvodljivo s
jednog naloga. Tada mi se s idejom javio nenad. Predlog je bio jako
dobar, i ja sam ga uz neke dodatke prihvatio. Evo o čemu se radi...
Otvoren je fiktivni nalog nba.news, sa kojeg ću kao i do sada slati
detaljne preglede utakmica, vijesti i statistike. Istovremeno ću sa svog
naloga svaki dan u jednoj poruci slati kratak izvještaj u kojem će se
nalaziti samo rezultati i nekoliko osnovnih podataka o utakmicama
odigranim tog dana (rezultati po četvrtinama i učinak najboljih u tri
kategorije).
Oni koji ne žele da prate sve daće ignore korisniku nba.news i preuzimaće
samo kratak izvještaj. Kad im zatreba nešto više, samo će skinuti ignore
i potražiti željene informacije. Na taj način će biti pošteđeni skidanja
čitavog fajla, a tekst će lako moći i da pretražuju komandom 'find' (što
je dobra osobina i za neka kasnija pretraživanja). Oni koje ne zanimaju
rezultati i statistike, već žele da prate samo diskusiju, a takvih je
vjerujem jako malo, ovom metodom slanja biće minimalno ugroženi.
Korisnici koji žele da prate sve neće morati ničim da se prilagođavaju,
pratiće temu kao i do sada.
Toliko o praćenju. Što se sadržaja tiče, za sada nemam u planu da vas u
kratkom izvještaju obavještavam o slanju detaljnih statistika i tablica,
koje će kao što sam rekao ići jednom nedeljno, odnosno jednom ili dvaput
mjesečno, niti da pravim rezime vijesti, koji sam siguran da ćete prvi
tražiti. Prije nego što počnem da razmišljam o tome, treba prvo da vidim
kako će sve ovo funkcionisati i koliki će to posao zapravo biti.
Mislim da je ovo najobjektivniji način koji se u ovom trenutku može
realizovati i da smo svima podjednako izašli u susret. Zahvaljujem se
Upravi sistema na podršci.
Primjena novog načina slanja počinje od sutra, čim podesim parametre
novog naloga i dok svi pročitate ovo obavještenje.
nba.1505vpoznanovic,
CHICAGO (110) AT CHARLOTTE (87)
CHICAGO
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
PIPPEN F 33 6-12 4-4 0 5 5 7 4 2 3 17
RODMAN F 28 2-2 2-2 6 11 17 3 2 0 5 6
LONGLEY C 20 3-6 0-0 3 3 6 3 0 1 2 6
JORDAN G 29 15-25 4-4 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 38
HARPER G 26 4-7 0-0 2 1 3 2 0 2 0 8
KERR 24 0-3 0-0 0 2 2 4 1 1 0 0
KUKOC 26 6-8 1-1 1 1 2 5 0 0 3 15
CAFFEY 18 5-6 0-1 1 2 3 0 1 1 2 10
PARISH 6 1-3 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
BROWN 14 4-6 0-0 0 2 2 1 2 1 1 8
BUECHLER 9 0-2 0-2 1 1 2 2 2 0 2 0
WENNINGTON 7 0-3 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0
TOTALS 240 46-83 11-14 14 31 45 29 16 9 20 110
(.554) (.786) TEAM REBS: 11 TOTAL TO: 20(15 PTS)
CHARLOTTE
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
GEIGER F 24 3-7 0-0 3 2 5 1 2 0 2 6
MASON F 32 6-13 2-4 1 3 4 4 3 0 1 14
DIVAC C 19 0-3 1-2 1 3 4 3 3 0 1 1
RICE G 32 7-15 4-4 0 1 1 2 3 0 3 21
GOLDWIRE G 9 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 0
SMITH 34 6-11 0-0 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 13
CURRY 21 2-9 0-0 0 2 2 3 0 1 2 4
BURRELL 16 3-8 0-0 0 2 2 1 1 2 0 7
ROSE 20 1-7 2-2 4 4 8 0 5 1 0 4
DELK 17 4-8 3-3 3 2 5 5 0 2 2 13
ZIDEK 16 2-6 0-0 1 3 4 0 0 0 1 4
BOGUES DNP - SORE LEFT KNEE
TOTALS 240 34-89 12-15 13 22 35 27 19 7 14 87
(.382) (.800) TEAM REBS: 7 TOTAL TO: 14(22 PTS)
CHICAGO 26 29 34 21 - 110
CHARLOTTE 18 18 19 32 - 87
BLOCKED SHOTS: CHICAGO - PIPPEN, JORDAN, HARPER. CHARLOTTE - RICE,
SMITH, BURRELL, ZIDEK.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: CHICAGO 7-16 (.438), PIPPEN 1-3, JORDAN 4-5, HARPER
0-3, KERR 0-1, KUKOC 2-2, BUECHLER 0-1, WENNINGTON 0-1. CHARLOTTE 7-22
(.318), GEIGER 0-1, RICE 3-6, SMITH 1-3, CURRY 0-5, BURRELL 1-3, DELK 2-4.
TECHNICALS: CHARLOTTE - MASON.
OFFICIALS: RONNIE NUNN, GREG WILLARD, DEREK RICHARDSON.
A - 24,042. T - 1:55.
CHICAGO (110) AT CHARLOTTE (87)
Michael Jordan scored 38 points and Scottie Pippen added 17
points and seven assists as the Chicago Bulls continued to
dominate opponents with a 110-87 dismantling of the Charlotte
Hornets.
Jordan, who always plays well in his home state, hit 15-of-25 of
shots in just 29 minutes. He also keyed a second-quarter run
before sitting out the entire fourth quarter.
"I felt good tonight," Jordan said. "I came out aggressive and
looked for my shot and it felt good. We came out quick and
wanted to put them away so we could get some rest before
tomorrow nights game back home."
"Coaching against Michael Jordan, what can I say," Hornets coach
Dave Cowens said. "He didn't miss many shots. He put a stamp on
the game, made a statement, typical Michael Jordan."
Dennis Rodman, who sat out the final period with Jordan and
Pippen, had six points and 17 rebounds for the Bulls, who are
off to the best start in franchise history and remained the
NBA's lone unbeaten team at 9-0.
"Well, you know, we can't look at records right now," said
Pippen. "We have to take one game at a time. We know the 33
consecutive win record is out there, but we are just trying to
play each game as hard as possible."
Chicago, which set an NBA record with 72 victories last season,
has beaten opponents by an average of 18 points this year.
Chicago's closest game was a six-point win over Miami on
November 6th.
Glen Rice had 21 points and Anthony Mason added 14 for the
Hornets, who have dropped four straight after opening the season
3-1.
"You can't start feeling sorry for yourself," Rice said. "You
can't lose confidence and can't stop shooting. We didn't
convert our shots. If we converted our shots the game would
have been much closer."
Jordan had 14 in the first quarter as Chicago raced to a 26-18
lead after one quarter. But it was an 18-4 run midway through
the second quarter that put the game out of reach.
Jason Caffey's jumper started the burst with 6:13 left in the
half and Rodman's layup with 53 seconds remaining capped it.
Jordan had nine points in the stretch that saw Chicago turn a
seven-point lead into a 55-34 advantage.
Chicago led by as many as 37 in the third quarter and emptied
their bench in the fourth quarter.
nba.1506vpoznanovic,
CLEVELAND (105) AT PHILADELPHIA (89)
CLEVELAND
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MILLS F 43 10-17 4-4 0 3 3 5 1 2 0 25
HILL F 39 5-7 1-2 5 6 11 2 4 2 2 11
WEST C 10 2-3 0-0 1 2 3 0 3 0 2 4
BRANDON G 39 10-21 2-3 0 4 4 13 1 2 3 24
PHILLS G 42 9-13 5-9 0 5 5 3 4 4 2 26
POTAPENKO 12 0-2 2-2 1 1 2 0 2 0 3 2
SURA 14 1-8 0-0 1 3 4 3 5 1 0 3
FERRY 24 3-8 0-0 0 4 4 3 5 0 1 7
LANG 16 0-1 3-4 1 1 2 0 3 1 1 3
GEARY 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MARSHALL DNP - COACH'S DECISION
THOMAS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 40-80 17-24 9 29 38 29 28 12 14 105
(.500) (.708) TEAM REBS: 9 TOTAL TO: 14(18 PTS)
PHILADELPHIA
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
WEATHERSPOON F 44 7-13 5-5 8 6 14 2 3 1 2 19
COLEMAN F 43 6-15 6-6 3 7 10 6 3 0 4 19
WILLIAMS C 20 1-6 0-0 2 4 6 2 3 1 1 2
IVERSON G 34 6-19 3-4 2 6 8 8 2 0 4 16
STACKHOUSE G 32 3-11 6-9 0 1 1 3 4 2 6 14
HARRIS 20 3-5 1-2 0 2 2 1 1 0 2 8
DAVIS 31 3-10 1-2 2 3 5 1 1 0 2 8
WALTERS 10 1-1 0-0 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 3
CAGE 6 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0
BRADTKE DNP - COACH'S DECISION
HENDRICKSON DNP - COACH'S DECISION
MACLEAN DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 30-81 22-28 18 31 49 24 20 4 22 89
(.370) (.786) TEAM REBS: 8 TOTAL TO: 22(27 PTS)
CLEVELAND 23 25 31 26 - 105
PHILADELPHIA 24 28 20 17 - 89
BLOCKED SHOTS: CLEVELAND - BRANDON 2, WEST, LANG. PHILADELPHIA -
WILLIAMS 2, COLEMAN, DAVIS.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: CLEVELAND 8-17 (.471), MILLS 1-4, BRANDON 2-4, PHILLS
3-4, SURA 1-2, FERRY 1-3. PHILADELPHIA 7-18 (.389), COLEMAN 1-2, IVERSON
1-3, STACKHOUSE 2-4, HARRIS 1-3, DAVIS 1-5, WALTERS 1-1.
TECHNICALS: NONE.
OFFICIALS: JESS KERSEY, BENNIE ADAMS, TOM WASHINGTON.
A - 12,901. T - 2:11.
CLEVELAND (105) AT PHILADELPHIA (89)
Bobby Phills scored 26 points and Terrell Brandon had eight of
his 24 in a 14-0 fourth-quarter run as the Cleveland Cavaliers
posted a 105-89 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.
Brandon, who also dished out 13 assists, extended a two-point
lead and began the decisive run with a three-point play and
capped it with a three-point field goal to make it 103-87 with
62 seconds remaining.
"After I missed my first three shots, I asked Coach if I was
doing anything wrong mechanically," said Brandon. "He said I
wasn't, so I went out and I hit my next shot. That helped my
confidence. Anytime you have four games in five nights, the
first half is going to be difficult. We layed back a little too
much in the first half, but in the second half we got some
defensive intensity. Our defense rotated better and
double-downed better."
Chris Mills added 25 points and Tyrone Hill had 11 and 11
rebounds for Cleveland, which improved to 6-2, but eclipsed the
century mark for just the second time this season. The Cavs
have only surrendered 90 points once.
"When we made a run from 10 down in the third quarter, it was at
a point when we weren't feeling very good about ourselves," said
Cavs coach Mike Fratello. "We went into the locker room
frustrated about turnovers, but to me the big difference in the
second half was when Terrell Brandon made a great call during
our timeout, then went out and made a big basket that brought us
to within two (60-58). I won't tell you what he said, but he
read their defense and suggested something that worked. We
gambled on it, but it was an intelligent read on his part."
Clarence Weatherspoon had 19 points and 14 boards, while Derrick
Coleman had 19 and 10 for Philadelphia, which has lost 11
straight at home to the Cavs. The Sixers' last home win over
Cleveland came on March 31st, 1991 and they have dropped eight
in a row in the series.
"It was a physical game, we ran the lead up, but we didn't make
the stops when they made their run," said Weatherspoon. "A
couple of turnovers helped them down the stretch. We have to
find a way to put teams away. We can't let teams back in there
and take our momentum away."
Sixers rookie point guard Allen Iverson totaled 16 points, eight
boards and eight assists, but had to leave with 6:15 remaining
after colliding with Danny Ferry, who was setting a pick.
X-rays revealed a slightly separated left shoulder and he will
miss Saturday's game in Miami.
Coleman and Jerry Stackhouse each scored 14 points to help the
76ers to a 52-48 halftime advantage. But Phills netted 12
points in the third, while Stackhouse was scoreless, as
Cleveland assumed a 79-72 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
Consecutive layups by Hill and Mills bumped the lead to 85-73
with 9:39 to play before Mark Davis had five points in a 10-0
spurt, which was capped by a three-pointer by Coleman that cut
the gap to 85-83 with 7:26 left.
The teams traded baskets until Brandon started the 14-0 burst.
Philadelphia outrebounded the Cavs, 49-38, but shot just 37
percent (30-of-81) from the floor.
"This is a very tough game to swallow because I thought we had
control of it twice," said Sixers coach Johnny Davis.
"Particularly in the third quarter when we were up 10 and had
them on the ropes. We allowed them to get back into the game,
that's one of the things that we are trying to get away from as
a team. To be able to go up 10 points, we have to finish a team
off. We had good looks, we just didn't put a ball in a basket."
nba.1507vpoznanovic,
DENVER (82) AT BOSTON (80)
DENVER
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
D ELLIS F 48 14-28 2-2 2 6 8 1 4 1 3 36
MCDYESS F 32 3-10 2-2 4 8 12 1 6 1 4 8
JOHNSON C 24 0-2 4-6 2 6 8 0 4 3 1 4
JACKSON G 41 3-13 0-0 4 1 5 12 1 0 5 7
STITH G 36 2-11 5-6 0 4 4 2 2 3 1 10
HAMMONDS 30 3-7 0-0 2 4 6 1 2 0 2 6
MARCIULIONIS 12 2-6 4-4 2 0 2 1 3 2 3 8
HAM 10 0-0 0-0 0 3 3 0 1 0 0 0
MURDOCK 4 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0
MCINNIS 3 1-2 1-2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
PIERCE DNP - COACH'S DECISION
THOMPSON DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 28-81 18-22 16 32 48 20 24 10 20 82
(.346) (.818) TEAM REBS: 9 TOTAL TO: 22(28 PTS)
BOSTON
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
WALKER F 35 3-11 1-2 2 4 6 2 5 0 4 7
WILLIAMS F 30 2-5 5-6 1 1 2 1 4 0 3 9
RADJA C 40 8-15 0-0 2 13 15 2 2 1 2 16
WESLEY G 46 7-17 3-4 1 2 3 7 1 1 3 18
FOX G 28 6-12 5-5 1 1 2 1 4 0 2 17
DAY 26 4-13 3-4 2 6 8 2 2 1 2 11
ELLISON 15 0-1 0-0 1 4 5 1 0 1 0 0
CONLON 17 0-1 2-2 0 0 0 1 4 2 2 2
DRIGGERS 3 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
BRICKOWSKI DNP - COACH'S DECISION
SZABO DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 30-76 19-23 10 31 41 17 23 6 18 80
(.395) (.826) TEAM REBS: 10 TOTAL TO: 18(28 PTS)
DENVER 17 15 28 22 - 82
BOSTON 20 22 20 18 - 80
BLOCKED SHOTS: DENVER - MCDYESS 2, JOHNSON 2, HAM, JACKSON. BOSTON -
RADJA 7, ELLISON 2, WESLEY, FOX, CONLON.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: DENVER 8-20 (.400), D ELLIS 6-9, JACKSON 1-4, STITH
1-3, MARCIULIONIS 0-2, MURDOCK 0-1, MCINNIS 0-1. BOSTON 1-16 (.063),
WALKER 0-3, RADJA 0-1, WESLEY 1-5, FOX 0-2, DAY 0-4, DRIGGERS 0-1.
TECHNICALS: DENVER - D ELLIS, HEAD COACH BICKERSTAFF.
OFFICIALS: STEVE JAVIE, LUIS GRILLO, GEORGE TOLIVER.
A - 14,133. T - 2:12.
DENVER (82) AT BOSTON (80)
Ervin Johnson sank three free throws in the final 54 seconds
lifting the Denver Nuggets to their first win in Boston this
decade, an 82-20 defeat of the Celtics.
Johnson sank a pair of free throws with 54 seconds remaining to
give Denver an 81-80 lead. After Boston's Rick Fox missed a
three-pointer with 36 seconds left, Johnson added another free
throw with 1.2 seconds remaining.
After Dino Radja's desparation shot at the buzzer fell short,
the Nuggets had their first victory in Boston since December
9th, 1989.
"No excuses on that last shot, it was just a good defensive
play," said Celtics rookie Antoine Walker. "We still gave
ourselves a chance in the fourth, but a lot of mistakes is what
broke us."
Dale Ellis led the Nuggets with 36 points and Antonio McDyess
chipped in with eight points and 12 rebounds. It was Ellis'
third 30-point game of the season and second in three games.
"I'm happy, but I'm more thrilled to get a win on the road,"
Ellis said. "This team (Boston) was up by 10, they got a little
too confident and relaxed a little bit to allow us to get back
into it. When you get a win in someone else's building, it
doesn't matter what happens during the course of the game. You
are just happy to get one, but we have a lot of stuff we need to
work on."
Mark Jackson added 12 assists, his eighth consecutive game of
10-or-more assists. He's now five games short of the team
record, set by Michael Adams in 1991.
"I just have so many weapons, this offense is tailor made for a
guy who can put the ball in the right hands," Jackson said.
"Dale coming off screens, McDyess down low and Brian Stith on
the other side, it is just an ideal situation for me."
enjoyable."
David Wesley had 18 points and Radja added 16, 15 rebounds and a
career-high seven blocks for Boston, which led by as many as 14
in the third quarter.
"It is always tough to loose, whether you are playing cards or
chess, it's always tough," Radja said.
Sarunas Marciulionis scored five of his eight points during a
6-0 third-quarter run that brought the Nuggets within 60-57 with
45 seconds remaining in the third quarter. The teams traded
baskets until Radja's layup with 84 seconds left gave Boston an
80-79 advantage.
The Nuggets won despite shooting 34 percent (28-of-81) from the
field and committing 22 turnovers. Denver's bench also managed
just 17 points on 6-of-17 shooting.
Boston, which only shot 39 percent (30-of-77) from the field,
was forced to play without guard Dana Barros, who is suffering
from the flu.
nba.1508vpoznanovic,
INDIANA (93) AT SAN ANTONIO (78)
INDIANA
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MCKEY F 36 5-10 4-5 0 5 5 4 0 1 2 15
D DAVIS F 37 6-8 1-2 4 15 19 0 2 0 1 13
A DAVIS C 31 4-7 5-6 4 2 6 1 2 3 3 13
BEST G 33 5-11 3-6 0 1 1 2 5 2 5 14
MILLER G 31 2-8 6-6 0 6 6 4 1 0 3 12
DAMPIER 7 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
ASKEW 17 0-4 0-0 1 1 2 2 4 0 0 0
HOIBERG 17 5-7 3-4 1 5 6 1 3 1 2 15
ALLEN 15 0-3 1-2 0 1 1 7 1 0 0 1
FERRELL 13 3-5 3-4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10
ROSE 3 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
SCOTT DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 30-65 26-35 10 37 47 21 19 7 17 93
(.462) (.743) TEAM REBS: 14 TOTAL TO: 20(23 PTS)
SAN ANTONIO
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
ELLIOTT F 33 3-9 2-5 1 2 3 1 1 1 3 9
D WILKINS F 41 6-18 5-6 7 9 16 1 4 0 3 19
ANDERSON C 23 1-2 0-0 0 4 4 1 4 2 0 2
MAXWELL G 42 7-21 0-0 0 5 5 4 4 0 1 16
JOHNSON G 28 5-11 0-1 0 1 1 7 1 2 3 10
ALEXANDER 19 5-8 3-4 0 0 0 7 2 2 2 15
M WILLIAMS 22 1-3 1-2 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 3
HERRERA 23 0-3 0-0 0 1 1 0 4 2 0 0
KEMPTON 9 1-1 2-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
DEL NEGRO DNP - LEFT KNEE AND ANKLE
W PERDUE DNP - LEFT THUMB
SMITH DNP - RIGHT KNEE
TOTALS 240 29-76 13-20 8 23 31 22 23 9 13 78
(.382) (.650) TEAM REBS: 6 TOTAL TO: 13(10 PTS)
INDIANA 26 25 21 21 - 93
SAN ANTONIO 25 15 12 26 - 78
BLOCKED SHOTS: INDIANA - D DAVIS 2, A DAVIS, MCKEY. SAN ANTONIO -
ELLIOTT 2, JOHNSON.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: INDIANA 7-20 (.350), MCKEY 1-4, BEST 1-4, MILLER 2-5,
HOIBERG 2-4, ALLEN 0-2, FERRELL 1-1. SAN ANTONIO 7-26 (.269), ELLIOTT 1-4,
D WILKINS 2-6, MAXWELL 2-10, JOHNSON 0-1, ALEXANDER 2-5.
TECHNICALS: INDIANA - ILLEGAL DEFENSE 2.
OFFICIALS: JIM CLARK, BENNETT SALVATORE, GARY BENSON.
A - 14,395. T - 2:06.
INDIANA (93) AT SAN ANTONIO (78)
Derrick McKey and Fred Hoiberg each scored 15 points as the
Indiana Pacers used a pair of big runs in the middle quarters en
route to their first road win of the season, a 93-78 victory
over the San Antonio Spurs.
The Pacers have won five straight over the Spurs since losing
both meetings in 1993-94. Dale Davis, who contributed 13 points
and 19 rebounds, had a dunk to close a 12-0 spurt and give
Indiana a 41-29 lead with 5:49 left in the second quarter. The
Pacers opened the trip with losses to the Dallas Mavericks and
Houston Rockets.
"When you are 2-5 every game's a struggle," said Indiana coach
Larry Brown. "I'm proud we could come back tonight especially
after last night, because we should have won that one. A lot of
teams wouldn't have fought back and I'm proud of them tonight."
Davis shot 6-of-8 from the field and Hoiberg shot 5-of-7 for a
career high in points and grabbed six rebounds in 17 minutes.
Indiana, which was without starting center Rik Smits again, had
seven players in double figures.
"Hopefully we'll now get another one at home and get a little
streak started," said Hoiberg.
Dominique Wilkins had 19 points and 16 rebounds for the Spurs,
who were held scoreless for a span of nearly 10 minutes in the
third quarter. San Antonio has been held under 80 points in
five of its eight games. The Spurs are without starting center
David Robinson and backup Will Perdue.
"We started pressing and started thinking about the shots and
everything was compounded," Wilkins said. "We're not taking the
opportunities."
Avery Johnson made a layup to pull the Spurs within 53-46 with
10:46 left in the third. But Reggie Miller made a three-pointer
to spark an 18-0 burst that ended with Duane Ferrell's free
throw for a 72-46 cushion with 55 seconds to go. The Spurs had
just six points in the quarter until Vernon Maxwell made a pair
of three-pointers in the final 38 seconds.
"Our energy level was low from the start," Johnson said. "I
think we just falied to follow the game plan."
Maxwell had 16 points and Johnson added 10 points and seven of
San Antonio's 22 assists. Cory Alexander had a career-high 15
points in 19 minutes.
Sean Elliott, who was held to nine points in 33 minutes, made a
three-pointer as the Spurs tied the score, 25-25, with 27.3
seconds left in the first quarter. Travis Best, who had 14
points, made a free throw with 1.4 seconds to go, giving the
Pacers the lead for good 26-25.
nba.1509vpoznanovic,
LA CLIPPERS (100) AT LA LAKERS (107)
LA CLIPPERS
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
VAUGHT F 29 4-17 2-2 5 7 12 2 1 3 4 10
ROGERS F 19 2-5 3-4 1 1 2 3 4 0 1 7
DUCKWORTH C 13 1-3 0-0 0 2 2 1 3 0 2 2
SEALY G 39 8-13 3-7 2 3 5 4 4 3 0 19
RICHARDSON G 28 4-6 0-0 0 2 2 4 2 2 4 9
ROBERTS 27 3-8 2-2 0 3 3 0 5 2 5 8
DEHERE 10 2-3 2-2 0 1 1 4 2 0 1 7
MURRAY 29 6-8 2-6 3 1 4 4 3 0 1 15
OUTLAW 19 5-6 0-0 2 4 6 0 3 1 1 10
PIATKOWSKI 7 2-3 0-0 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 5
WRIGHT 8 3-4 0-0 3 0 3 0 1 0 0 6
D MARTIN 12 1-5 0-0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 2
TOTALS 240 41-81 14-23 16 25 41 25 31 12 22 100
(.506) (.609) TEAM REBS: 11 TOTAL TO: 22(27 PTS)
LA LAKERS
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
CAMPBELL F 39 9-11 2-4 5 5 10 4 6 1 4 20
JONES F 44 11-19 7-7 0 5 5 4 4 5 5 32
ONEAL C 29 6-11 6-10 2 1 3 3 6 3 3 18
SCOTT G 39 6-11 4-4 1 1 2 4 3 0 2 19
VAN EXEL G 40 1-10 2-4 1 5 6 15 0 2 4 4
ROOKS 10 1-4 1-2 2 3 5 0 1 0 1 3
FISHER 8 1-1 1-2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
BLOUNT 23 1-2 0-0 0 5 5 0 1 2 0 2
BRYANT 7 1-4 2-3 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 4
ROBINSON 1 0-0 2-4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
KNIGHT DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 37-73 27-40 12 25 37 31 25 13 20 107
(.507) (.675) TEAM REBS: 9 TOTAL TO: 20(25 PTS)
LA CLIPPERS 23 26 27 24 - 100
LA LAKERS 28 28 31 20 - 107
BLOCKED SHOTS: LA CLIPPERS - ROGERS, MURRAY, OUTLAW. LA LAKERS -
CAMPBELL 2, ONEAL 2, ROOKS.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: LA CLIPPERS 4-10 (.400), ROGERS 0-1, RICHARDSON 1-2,
DEHERE 1-2, MURRAY 1-1, PIATKOWSKI 1-2, D MARTIN 0-2. LA LAKERS 6-15
(.400), JONES 3-6, SCOTT 3-5, VAN EXEL 0-2, BRYANT 0-2.
TECHNICALS: LA CLIPPERS - ILLEGAL DEFENSE, LA LAKERS - ONEAL.
OFFICIALS: BRUCE ALEXANDER, JIM CAPERS, ED F RUSH.
A - 16,207. T - 2:19.
LA CLIPPERS (100) AT LA LAKERS (107)
Eddie Jones scored a career-high 32 points and Elden Campbell
added 20 points and 10 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers
remained undefeated at home with a 107-100 victory over the Los
Angeles Clippers.
The Lakers topped the 100-point mark for just the second time
this season in winning their fourth home game. Byron Scott
added 19 points and played 39 minutes in his first start for the
Lakers since May 19th, 1993.
"Having Cedric out is a big loss, he does a lot of things for
you," said Scott referring to forward Cedric Ceballos, who is
out with partially torn patella in his right knee. "You just
have to go out there and bust your butt and see what happens. I
was shocked by that, 40 minutes, I'll wake up tomorrow and feel
it. I just look forward to getting in there and helping the
team any way I can."
Shaquille O'Neal, who fouled out with 6:58 left in the fourth
quarter, had 18 points and three rebounds, marking the first
game that he did not lead the team in points and rebounds. Nick
Van Exel had 15 assists and has led the Lakers in assists every
game.
"Even when Shaq was out I didn't think his leaving was a plus or
minus," said Clippers coach Bill Fitch. "I've seen too many
times when they lose a guy like that when your team goes down
and is not effective."
Malik Sealy scored 19 points and Lamond Murray added 15 for the
Clippers, who fell to 11-54 all-time at the Great Western Forum.
They have not won there since December 9th, 1994. The loss was
the Clippers' first in four road games this season.
Pooh Richardson made a 16-footer as the Clippers tied the score,
35-35, with 8:09 left in the second quarter. O'Neal then sank a
pair of free throws to give the Lakers the lead for good, 37-35,
with 7:45 left. Jones had 17 points while O'Neal and Campbell
each added 11 to help the Lakers to a 56-49 halftime advantage.
Derek Fisher made a layup to cap an 11-4 burst and give the
Lakers their biggest lead of the game, 87-72, with 1:48 left in
the third.
"It was a win, we're glad to get it," lakers coach Del Harris
said. "It got down to where we struggled but we held our
composure and won. Nick moved the ball well, basketball is a
game of movement and we do our best when we move."
Charles Outlaw made a layup at the end of a fast break to finish
a 12-2 run and pull the Clippers within 98-96 with 3:36
remaining in the fourth. The Clippers had a chance to make it a
two-point game but Sealy missed a pair of free throws with 3:03
left.
Scott made a three-pointer as the 24-second clock ran out to
give the Lakers a 102-95 cushion with 2:06 to go.
"We had great ball movement, I was pretty much wide open for the
shot thanks to Nick," said Scott.
nba.1510vpoznanovic,
MIAMI (77) AT ATLANTA (85)
MIAMI
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MAJERLE F 42 2-7 0-2 1 3 4 4 3 1 1 5
THOMAS F 19 5-10 1-1 2 4 6 1 4 1 2 11
MOURNING C 34 8-12 0-1 2 8 10 3 5 0 3 17
HARDAWAY G 43 8-19 1-1 1 2 3 8 5 3 3 23
DANILOVIC G 38 1-6 1-1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 4
BROWN 21 2-5 3-4 0 2 2 1 5 1 2 7
GRANT 8 0-4 0-0 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 0
AUSTIN 22 3-9 2-4 2 5 7 0 4 0 2 8
ASKINS 12 1-3 0-0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2
LENARD 1 0-2 0-0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
PINCKNEY DNP - COACH'S DECISION
STRICKLAND DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 30-77 8-14 10 25 35 19 33 7 14 77
(.390) (.571) TEAM REBS: 7 TOTAL TO: 15(15 PTS)
ATLANTA
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
CORBIN F 41 5-10 9-10 1 6 7 0 2 2 2 22
LAETTNER F 43 6-15 6-7 0 6 6 1 3 2 2 19
MUTOMBO C 29 4-8 4-7 6 11 17 2 4 1 2 12
RECASNER G 42 3-8 8-8 4 4 8 3 3 3 5 14
BARRY G 45 3-11 6-8 2 4 6 3 1 1 2 12
NEWBILL 16 0-2 0-2 2 2 4 0 1 0 0 0
BOYCE 9 0-4 0-0 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 0
BURTON 15 1-2 4-6 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 6
ALSTON DNP - COACH'S DECISION
BLAYLOCK DNP - SPRAINED RIGHT ANKLE
MILLER DNP - COACH'S DECISION
SMITH DNP - SPRAINED RIGHT ANKLE
TOTALS 240 22-60 37-48 16 35 51 10 18 10 17 85
(.367) (.771) TEAM REBS: 9 TOTAL TO: 17(13 PTS)
MIAMI 27 29 13 8 - 77
ATLANTA 19 19 28 19 - 85
BLOCKED SHOTS: MIAMI - BROWN, AUSTIN, ASKINS. ATLANTA - MUTOMBO 4,
LAETTNER 2, RECASNER, NEWBILL.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: MIAMI 9-22 (.409), MAJERLE 1-5, MOURNING 1-1, HARDAWAY
6-11, DANILOVIC 1-2, ASKINS 0-1, LENARD 0-2. ATLANTA 4-15 (.267), CORBIN
3-5, LAETTNER 1-2, RECASNER 0-1, BARRY 0-5, BOYCE 0-2.
TECHNICALS: ATLANTA - MUTOMBO.
OFFICIALS: NOLAN FINE, JOE FORTE, SCOTT FOSTER.
A - 16,378. T - 2:22.
MIAMI (77) AT ATLANTA (85)
Tyrone Corbin scored 22 points and Eldridge Recasner made six
free throws in the final minute as the Atlanta Hawks limited the
Miami Heat to and NBA-record 21 points in the second half en
route to an 85-77 victory.
After the Heat were called for an illegal defense technical
foul, Christian Laettner made the free throw, pulling the Hawks
within 74-73 with 2:50 left in the fourth quarter. Corbin made
a three-pointer with 1:45 to go, putting the Hawks ahead for
good, 76-74. It was Atlanta's first lead since the first
quarter.
"It was a great win for us," said Atlanta coach Lenny Wilkins.
"We had to be ready to play mentally and physically. I didn't
want them to drop their heads at halftime, the big thing was we
had to defend and we did that. I thought Dikembe came back in
the second half and was awesome. I told the guys 'we have
nothing to lose, let's go out and play hard.' It's a good
example of what hard work does."
Atlanta played without its starting backcourt of Mookie Blaylock
and Steve Smith. Both have sprained right ankles and are listed
as day-to-day. Center Dikembe Mutombo had three fouls and was
scoreless in the first half, but finished with 12 points and 13
rebounds. Laettner had 19 points.
"My teammates said 'Dik, we need you in the game,' " Mutombo
said. "I went in and do whatever I have to do to win the
ballgame. I think the defense intensity was very high in the
second half and that was the reason why we got back in the
ballgame."
"It was a very good win for us," Laettner said. "We hung in
there and we scraped all night. When Dikembe came back our
defense was great. I think we played really hard and we did it
with guys who haven't played a lot all season."
Tim Hardaway scored 21 of his 23 points in the first half for
the Heat, who fell to 2-14 all-time at Atlanta. Hardaway was
6-of-7 from three-point range, including a 40-foot shot at the
buzzer, and scored 21 points as Atlanta jumped to a 56-38
halftime lead.
"That was an incredible display in the second half of totally
incompetent basketball," said Miami coach Pat Riley. "We had a
chance to do something tonight and we just did not finish the
game. Give Lenny and his team a lot of credit for getting right
back into the game. It was just an awful loss."
Recasner made the first two of his six free throws to give
Atlanta a 78-74 lead with 43 seconds left. After Alonzo
Mourning missed a hook shot, Corbin's two free throws stretched
the lead to 80-74 with 36 seconds remaining.
"I have always been a pretty decent free throw shooter," said
Recasner, who made all eight of his free throw attempts fro the
game. "I'm just really fortunate to be able to knock them
down."
Mourning made a three-pointer to cut the deficit to 80-77 with
33 seconds to go and Miami immediately fouled Jon Barry, who
made one of two free throws. Dan Majerle missed a three-pointer
on Miami's following possession and Recasner's two free throws
made it 83-77 with 19 seconds left. Hardaway and Voshon Lenard
each missed three-pointers for Miami and Recasner's final pair
of free throws closed the scoring with eight seconds remaining.
"I don't even want to talk about it," Hardaway said. "I'm
speechless."
Hardaway scored nine of his points during an 18-4 run that gave
Miami a 27-17 lead with 1:39 left in the first quarter. Mourning
scored 14 of his 17 points in first half as the Heat took their
biggest lead of the game, 56-38, at halftime.
nba.1511vpoznanovic,
MILWAUKEE (99) AT SACRAMENTO (103)
MILWAUKEE
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
ROBINSON F 43 10-21 7-10 3 4 7 5 4 1 3 29
BAKER F 10 1-4 3-4 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 5
WOLF C 16 0-4 0-0 2 2 4 1 4 0 0 0
DOUGLAS G 35 8-11 2-3 0 2 2 10 1 1 0 20
ALLEN G 26 3-5 3-4 0 3 3 2 0 0 0 9
GILLIAM 42 5-14 4-6 5 8 13 0 3 0 5 14
HANCOCK 5 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 2
WOOD 20 2-3 1-1 0 2 2 0 2 1 0 7
PERRY 13 2-5 0-0 1 2 3 0 0 1 1 4
NEWMAN 30 2-10 5-7 4 2 6 0 5 0 2 9
LANG DNP - ACHILLES TENDON INJURY
RESPERT DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 34-79 25-35 15 27 42 20 21 5 11 99
(.430) (.714) TEAM REBS: 9 TOTAL TO: 11(18 PTS)
SACRAMENTO
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
POLYNICE F 36 6-13 3-6 4 8 12 2 4 0 1 15
OWENS F 18 3-6 0-0 1 0 1 1 4 2 2 7
CAUSWELL C 9 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
RICHMOND G 41 11-18 7-8 0 4 4 6 3 1 3 30
ABDUL-RAUF G 34 9-18 2-2 0 1 1 4 3 0 2 22
C WILLIAMSON 30 9-16 4-4 2 2 4 1 3 0 3 22
SMITH 28 2-3 0-1 3 5 8 2 3 0 1 4
EDNEY 14 1-3 0-0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 2
SIMMONS 25 0-0 1-2 0 8 8 7 4 0 1 1
GAMBLE 4 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
HURLEY 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GRANT DNP - SHOULDER INJURY
TOTALS 240 41-77 17-23 10 29 39 26 26 3 14 103
(.532) (.739) TEAM REBS: 7 TOTAL TO: 14(20 PTS)
MILWAUKEE 34 24 20 21 - 99
SACRAMENTO 22 29 31 21 - 103
BLOCKED SHOTS: MILWAUKEE - BAKER 2, DOUGLAS 2, ROBINSON, GILLIAM, WOOD.
SACRAMENTO - C WILLIAMSON 2, POLYNICE, SMITH.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: MILWAUKEE 6-14 (.429), ROBINSON 2-7, WOLF 0-1, DOUGLAS
2-2, WOOD 2-3, NEWMAN 0-1. SACRAMENTO 4-10 (.400), OWENS 1-1, RICHMOND
1-4, ABDUL-RAUF 2-5.
TECHNICALS: NONE.
OFFICIALS: BERNIE FRYER, BLANE REICHELT, TOMMIE WOOD.
A - 17,317. T - 2:15.
MILWAUKEE (99) AT SACRAMENTO (103)
Mitch Richmond scored 12 of his season-high 30 points in the
fourth quarter and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf had nine of his 22 in a
key third-quarter run as the Sacramento Kings defeated the
Milwaukee Bucks, 103-99.
Corliss Williamson added a season-high 22 points for Sacramento,
which won for the first time in three games and improved to 3-5.
"We were fortunate to play a strong second half because we had a
poor first quarter," Kings coach Gary St. Jean said. "I really
like the way we responded in the second half defensively and we
made some good decisions down the stretch."
The Kings have won the last three meetings by a combined 38
points and hold a 10-5 edge in the series over the last eight
seasons.
Sacramento won for just the second time in five home games.
Glenn Robinson scored 29 points and Sherman Douglas added 20 and
a season-high 10 assists for Milwaukee, which dropped its second
straight and lost All-Star forward Vin Baker during the contest.
Baker left with a bruised right hip after he was undercut by
Sacramento's Michael Smith while going for a rebound with 1:51
left in first quarter. Baker made two free throws before
exiting and did not return. X-Rays were negative and Baker is
listed as day-to-day.
"As an overview of the game, I really want to share with you
that I hope Vin Baker is okay," St. Jean said. "He is a class
act as a young man and as a player."
After rookie Ray Allen was credited with a goaltending basket to
close Milwaukee within 90-89 midway through the fourth quarter,
Olden Polynice made a layup to ignite a 6-1 spurt. Richmond
capped the run with consecutive jumpers to give the Kings a
96-90 lead with 2:46 remaining in the fourth quarter.
Allen brought Milwaukee back one final time, hitting a 21-footer
to close the Bucks within 98-95 before Abdul-Rauf answered back
with a long jumper of his own to seal the game with 1:04
remaining.
"My shot felt pretty good tonight," Abdul-Rauf said. "I've been
saying that I have got to be more aggressive, and so tonight I
was more concious of that, trying to play more aggressive both
offensively and defensively. Fortunately, the shots were
falling, but most important was that we got the victory."
Richmond had 16 of Sacramento's last 25 points.
"Mahmoud did a great job tonight," Richmond said. "We wanted
him to look for his shots and go for it. I think he did that
tonight and he'll hopefully feel comfortable playing and keep
looking for his shots. It was important to get this win at
home. We play nine of our next 10 on the road and it's going to
be tough."
The Kings overcame a 13-point deficit in the second quarter.
After Douglas made a layup to give the Bucks a 48-35 lead midway
through the second quarter, Richmond hit a 21-footer to ignite a
12-3 run.
Polynice and Williamson each scored four points during the burst
as Williamson's dunk capped the run to pull the Kings within
51-47 with 3:03 to go in the first half.
The Kings trailed 58-51 at the half, but began chipping away at
the deficit in the third quarter as Abdul-Rauf hit a 21-footer
to ignite an opening 12-2 run. Rauf had nine points during the
burst, including an 18-footer to give Sacramento a 63-60 lead.
Richmond made a layup one minute later to give the Kings the
lead for good at 65-63.
Polynice finished with 15 points and 12 rebounds and Lionel
Simmons had eight rebounds and seven assists for Sacramento,
which shot 53 percent (41-of-77) from the field and took
advantage of Baker's injury to outscore Milwaukee 44-30 in the
paint.
Armon Gilliam had 14 points and 13 rebounds for Milwaukee, which
shot 43 percent (34-of-79) from the floor.
nba.1512vpoznanovic,
PORTLAND (93) AT NEW JERSEY (85)
PORTLAND
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
TRENT F 28 3-7 4-4 0 2 2 1 2 2 2 10
DUDLEY F 40 3-7 1-2 4 9 13 0 5 0 0 7
SABONIS C 5 0-1 0-0 1 3 4 0 1 0 1 0
RIDER G 42 6-17 2-2 0 3 3 4 3 2 5 15
ANDERSON G 40 5-11 12-14 1 6 7 2 1 1 2 22
WINGFIELD 26 3-4 2-2 0 3 3 1 3 4 1 8
C ROBINSON 35 7-19 7-12 1 5 6 2 5 1 3 21
MCKIE 14 1-2 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 6
BUTLER 10 2-3 0-0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 4
CHILDRESS DNP - COACH'S DECISION
JORDAN DNP - COACH'S DECISION
WALLACE DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 30-71 31-40 7 32 39 10 21 11 14 93
(.423) (.775) TEAM REBS: 14 TOTAL TO: 14(9 PTS)
NEW JERSEY
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
OBANNON F 21 2-5 0-0 1 1 2 1 2 0 1 5
J WILLIAMS F 42 3-12 7-9 9 7 16 2 6 0 5 13
BRADLEY C 37 6-14 4-6 5 5 10 0 5 0 6 16
KITTLES G 31 1-10 0-0 1 2 3 4 0 1 1 3
GILL G 32 5-16 6-7 3 9 12 1 5 0 3 16
R WILLIAMS 20 1-7 2-2 0 4 4 0 3 0 1 4
MASSENBURG 6 1-3 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
REEVES 23 4-10 1-2 0 0 0 3 3 1 1 13
MCDANIEL 10 2-3 0-2 1 2 3 0 2 1 1 4
PACK 18 4-6 0-0 0 0 0 1 5 0 1 9
DARE DNP - COACH'S DECISION
CALDWELL DNP - NOT WITH TEAM
TOTALS 240 29-86 20-28 20 30 50 12 31 3 20 85
(.337) (.714) TEAM REBS: 12 TOTAL TO: 20(22 PTS)
PORTLAND 18 22 24 29 - 93
NEW JERSEY 19 23 16 27 - 85
BLOCKED SHOTS: PORTLAND - DUDLEY 2, C ROBINSON, MCKIE. NEW JERSEY -
BRADLEY 5, GILL 2, KITTLES.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: PORTLAND 2-18 (.111), RIDER 1-6, ANDERSON 0-5,
WINGFIELD 0-1, C ROBINSON 0-5, MCKIE 1-1. NEW JERSEY 7-21 (.333), OBANNON
1-3, BRADLEY 0-1, KITTLES 1-2, GILL 0-3, R WILLIAMS 0-3, REEVES 4-8, PACK
1-1.
TECHNICALS: PORTLAND - C ROBINSON.
OFFICIALS: MIKE MATHIS, WOODY MAYFIELD, TOMMY NUNEZ.
A - 12,016. T - 2:18.
PORTLAND (93) AT NEW JERSEY (85)
Ex-Net Kenny Anderson scored 22 points, including a pair of free
throws during a decisive fourth-quarter run, as the Portland
Trail Blazers kept New Jersey winless with a 93-85 victory.
Clifford Robinson, who did not start because he violated a team
rule, scored 21 points, Isaiah Rider added 15 and Gary Trent had
10 for Portland, which improved to 1-2 on its four-game road
trip. Chris Dudley, another former Net, grabbed 13 rebounds for
the Trail Blazers.
Portland center Arvydas Sabonis left with 7:22 left in the first
quarter with a bruised right hip and a bruised right elbow.
Rasheed Wallace was excused for personal reasons.
"I thought our guys played hard," Trail Blazers coach P.J.
Carlesimo said. "We had a day to get ready. I thought Trent
played hard and Kenny did a tremendous job. Our guys had the
will to win. A lot of people stepped up and played hard. Had it
gone to a one-possession game, I would have put Rasheed in."
"I thought it was real important to get a win," Dudley said.
"With Rasheed out and Sabonis getting injured, we were real
short on big men. The Nets will be one of the better teams on
the boards."
Shawn Bradley and Kendall Gill each scored 16 points and Jayson
Williams added 13 for New Jersey, which fell to 0-5 under new
coach John Calipari and remained one of two NBA teams without a
win. The Phoenix Suns are 0-8.
"I'm definitely not happy and I told that to the team," Nets
coach John Calipari said. "We had the opportunity to win. I
told the guys we had to move on. We have another game tomorrow.
We didn't execute down the stretch. We could have and should
have won. Right now, we're in a slump, but soon things will
swing the other way."
The Nets' start is the worst in team history, eclipsing an 0-4
start in 1987-88.
Anderson was making his second appearance in New Jersey since
the Nets traded him to Charlotte last January 16th. He added
seven rebounds.
After Gill's jumper closed New Jersey within 82-81 with 2:39
left in the fourth quarter, Dontonio Wingfield and Anderson each
made a pair of free throws to build a five-point cushion with a
little over two miutes remaining. Williams missed a pair of
free throws in between for New Jersey.
"We were closer than two days ago (against Washington),"
Williams rationalized. "We could win. I should make those two
free throws, although I wasn't tense. We can't make so many
mistakes and win. I hate to come so close and lose. We gave a
good fight to a good team. He (Calipari) wanted to win this one
more than anyone."
Mitchell Butler followed with a fast-break dunk to give the
Blazers an 88-81 lead with 1:29 remaining. After Williams sank
a pair from the line, Anderson sealed the victory with two free
throws for a seven-point lead with 74 seconds to go.
Williams added 16 rebounds, Gill had 12 and Bradley 10 for New
Jersey which shot just 34 percent (29-of-86) from the field.
nba.1513vpoznanovic,
VANCOUVER (96) AT UTAH (104)
VANCOUVER
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
B EDWARDS F 37 9-22 4-4 1 2 3 1 3 1 1 23
ROGERS F 26 3-6 1-2 2 5 7 0 5 0 2 7
REEVES C 39 8-17 3-4 2 3 5 4 4 1 0 19
MOTEN G 36 8-15 2-2 2 0 2 1 4 1 1 21
ANTHONY G 36 4-13 1-2 0 7 7 7 3 3 0 10
MAYBERRY 15 0-3 0-0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
MOBLEY 21 3-3 0-1 3 1 4 1 2 1 1 6
LYNCH 13 2-3 1-4 1 2 3 2 1 2 0 5
ABDUR-RAHIM 14 2-5 1-2 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 5
MANNING 3 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CHILCUTT DNP - COACH'S DECISION
PEELER DNP - DID NOT DRESS
TOTALS 240 39-89 13-21 12 23 35 18 24 10 8 96
(.438) (.619) TEAM REBS: 6 TOTAL TO: 8(6 PTS)
UTAH
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
RUSSELL F 22 2-4 1-2 1 1 2 1 4 0 1 5
MALONE F 32 7-12 7-8 0 13 13 2 1 1 4 21
OSTERTAG C 31 7-15 2-2 11 9 20 1 2 0 3 16
HORNACEK G 28 6-13 4-6 2 2 4 4 0 0 1 16
STOCKTON G 36 4-6 2-2 0 1 1 18 2 1 4 10
EISLEY 12 1-4 0-0 1 0 1 2 2 0 1 2
MORRIS 4 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0
KEEFE 21 3-5 1-2 1 6 7 0 3 0 0 7
CARR 23 3-7 2-4 0 4 4 1 2 1 2 8
FOSTER 10 3-3 0-0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 6
ANDERSON 21 5-8 2-4 2 2 4 1 0 0 1 13
WATSON DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 41-78 21-30 18 40 58 31 17 3 18 104
(.526) (.700) TEAM REBS: 5 TOTAL TO: 18(16 PTS)
VANCOUVER 25 21 18 32 - 96
UTAH 21 24 25 34 - 104
BLOCKED SHOTS: VANCOUVER - ROGERS 3, MOTEN. UTAH - OSTERTAG 3, MALONE 2,
EISLEY 2, HORNACEK, CARR, FOSTER.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: VANCOUVER 5-17 (.294), B EDWARDS 1-3, MOTEN 3-5,
ANTHONY 1-7, MAYBERRY 0-2. UTAH 1-7 (.143), RUSSELL 0-2, HORNACEK 0-2,
STOCKTON 0-1, EISLEY 0-1, ANDERSON 1-1.
TECHNICALS: NONE.
OFFICIALS: RON GARRETSON, JOE DEROSA, KEVIN FEHR.
A - 19,046. T - 2:01.
VANCOUVER (96) AT UTAH (104)
Karl Malone scored 21 points and John Stockton handed out a
season-high 18 assists as the Utah Jazz defeated the Vancouver
Grizzlies for the fifth straight time, 104-96.
Greg Ostertag posted career highs with 16 points and 20 rebounds
and Jeff Hornacek also had 16 points for Utah, which won its
second straight following two losses in a row. Malone added 13
rebounds for the Jazz, who have beaten the second-year
Grizzlies in all five meetings by a combined 69 points.
"Early on, I was frustrated with our turnovers and their
offensive rebounds," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said. "A lot of it
was just throwing the ball away. When you concentrate you put
the ball where its supposed to go and when you don't then you
turn it over and we turned it over 13 times in the first half."
Blue Edwards scored 23 points, Lawrence Moten added 21 and
Bryant Reeves had 19 for Vancouver, which fell to 1-8 one day
after posting its first win of the season.
"I thought we played a pretty good first half," Grizzlies coach
Brian Winters said. "But, you know we were outrebounded
severely in the first half and in the second half. When that
happens, it's hard to win the basketball game. That's number
one. Number two (is) they upped the pressure there for about
three or four minutes in that period."
After Edwards hit a three-pointer to close Vancouver within
60-58 midway through the third quarter, Ostertag dunked to
ignite a 12-4 run. Ostertag had five points during the stretch
and Malone hit a layup to cap the burst and give the Jazz a
70-62 lead with 40 seconds left.
"The past couple of games I just wanted to come out and bust my
rear and play real hard," Ostertag said. "The fans have been
waiting to see it, the coach has been waiting to see it, I've
been waiting to see it and my teammates have been waiting to see
it. I guess I'm finally there at least I'm getting closer.
"I know Karl is backing me up there somewhere and the whole
offense goes through him so there is no reason why I can't go
get the boards like that every night. Because I'm big, I'm long
maybe if I can just get my arms up I can just tap a couple to
myself every once in a while."
The Jazz had a six-point cushion entering the fourth quarter
behind Malone's 19 points and Ostertag's 14.
Utah built its largest lead in the fourth quarter as rookie
Shandon Anderson made two free throws and tipped in a miss to
highlight a 12-4 run. Adam Keefe capped the burst with a dunk,
giving the Jazz a 90-75 advantage with 4:33 left.
Vancouver made things interesting as Lawrence Moten and Greg
Anthony each scored five points during a 15-6 run. Anthony made
one free throw to cap the spurt as the Grizzlies closed within
96-90 with one minute left.
But Utah sealed the game as Malone and Antoine Carr each sank a
pair of free throws.
Anderson finished with a season-high 13 points and Stockton had
10 for Utah, which shot 53 percent (41-of-78) from the field and
outrebounded Vancouver, 58-35.
Anthony finished with 10 points, seven rebounds and seven
assists for Vancouver, which shot 44 percent (39-of-89).
nba.1514vpoznanovic,
WASHINGTON (84) AT DETROIT (95)
WASHINGTON
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
WEBBER F 34 3-10 0-0 1 3 4 3 1 2 3 6
HOWARD F 32 7-11 0-0 1 2 3 3 3 0 4 14
MURESAN C 27 2-4 0-0 2 4 6 0 3 0 4 4
CHEANEY G 26 4-7 0-0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 8
STRICKLAND G 30 4-8 3-3 0 0 0 9 0 3 3 11
GRANT 22 3-6 0-0 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 8
MURRAY 20 3-10 1-2 3 3 6 1 1 1 0 8
JACKSON 24 3-9 0-0 2 2 4 4 4 0 1 7
WHITNEY 20 5-7 4-5 0 3 3 2 2 0 0 18
WALLACE 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
AMAYA 2 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
FISH DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 34-72 8-10 9 21 30 23 17 6 16 84
(.472) (.800) TEAM REBS: 4 TOTAL TO: 16(20 PTS)
DETROIT
REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===
MILLS F 35 3-5 2-2 1 1 2 1 2 1 3 9
LONG F 38 5-10 0-0 2 9 11 2 3 2 1 10
THORPE C 39 10-14 0-0 3 9 12 2 4 0 2 20
HILL G 41 10-18 7-8 0 2 2 4 2 1 3 27
DUMARS G 39 9-13 3-3 0 2 2 5 1 0 2 25
RATLIFF 2 0-0 2-2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
HUNTER 27 1-6 0-0 0 1 1 3 2 1 1 2
AUGMON 8 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
CURRY 7 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MAHORN 3 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0
SMITH 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
REID DNP - COACH'S DECISION
TOTALS 240 38-68 14-15 6 24 30 18 19 5 12 95
(.559) (.933) TEAM REBS: 7 TOTAL TO: 14(20 PTS)
WASHINGTON 21 26 12 25 - 84
DETROIT 27 17 30 21 - 95
BLOCKED SHOTS: WASHINGTON - MURESAN, STRICKLAND, GRANT. DETROIT - NONE.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: WASHINGTON 8-19 (.421), WEBBER 0-1, STRICKLAND 0-2,
GRANT 2-3, MURRAY 1-4, JACKSON 1-5, WHITNEY 4-4. DETROIT 5-10 (.500),
MILLS 1-1, HILL 0-1, DUMARS 4-7, HUNTER 0-1.
TECHNICALS: WASHINGTON - HEAD COACH LYNAM, DETROIT - HEAD COACH COLLINS.
OFFICIALS: DERRICK STAFFORD, BILL OAKES, SCOTT WALL.
A - 21,454. T - 1:57.
WASHINGTON (84) AT DETROIT (95)
Grant Hill scored five of his 27 points during a key
third-quarter run and Joe Dumars added 15 of his 25 in the
second half to lead the surprising Detroit Pistons to a 95-84
victory over the Washington Bullets.
The Pistons have won three straight since their only loss of the
season to Chicago on November 8th. Detroit (7-1) is off to its
best start since opening the 1988-89 season with eight
consecutive victories.
"I thought it was the best we've executed offfensively," Pistons
coach Doug Collins said. "We went into the post, got
double-teamed and moved the ball. We rebounded the ball and we
didn't turn it over. The third quarter was as beautiful as it
could get. Just watching our defense and our rotation, our
execution and our unselfishness, that was fun to watch."
Detroit trailed 49-44 with 11:16 left in the third quarter, but
went on a 17-4 run for a 61-53 lead with 4:37 to play in the
third. Otis Thorpe had six of his 20 points in the run, Hill
added five and Dumars made a three-pointer.
Thorpe's 15-foot jumper ignited the run and Dumars capped it
with a 15-foot jumper. Detroit outscored Washington 30-12 in
the decisive third quarter.
The Pistons opened their lead to 74-59 after three. Washington
got as close as 85-76 with 4:29 to play on Jaren Jackson's
three-pointer. But Hill scored the next four points to give
Detroit a 13-point advantage with 3:13 left.
"I played against those guys a lot," Hill said, referring to
Bullets Chris Webber and Juwan Howard. "I get up for the game.
It's like the Chicago game, a game you kind of circle on the
calendar. It comes from playing them for a long time, they can
beat you in so many ways. We had our guys -- Otis and Grant
(Long) really locked in so they couldn't beat on us."
Chris Whitney scored 18 points and Howard contributed 14 for the
Bullets, who have lost four of their last five games.
"It's not the type of game anybody wants," Howard said. "We
wanted to come out there and win the game, but we failed.
They're a good team, you have to give them credit. Hopefully,
next time we play them it will be a different outcome. The
third quarter's really what hurt us. We scored like 12 points
in the third quarter, you can't do that in this league."
Thorpe grabbed 12 rebounds and Long had 10 for Detroit, which
has held all eight of its opponents under 100 points. The
Pistons shot 56 percent (38-of-68) from the field and 93 percent
(14-for-15) from the foul line.
nba.1515vpoznanovic,
Ceballos goes on injured list
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (Nov 15, 1996 - 19:36 EST) -- Lakers forward Cedric
Ceballos, who partially tore a knee tendon on Wednesday, was placed on
the injured list Friday.
Ceballos is expected to be sidelined a minimum of six weeks, the team
said.
He partially tore patella tendon of the right knee during Wednesday's
game at San Antonio. Ceballos is averaging 10.8 points and 6.6
rebounds in eight games this season.
nba.1516vpoznanovic,
Baker suffers bruised hip
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Nov 16, 1996 - 01:42 EST) -- Milwaukee Bucks
forward Vin Baker injured his right hip in Friday's game against the
Sacramento Kings and left Arco Arena at halftime on crutches.
In a scramble for a rebound under the Kings' basket, Baker was fouled
from behind and took a hard fall. After several minutes on the floor,
he stayed in the game and made two free throws. Baker then left the
court at the 1:50 mark of the first quarter and didn't return.
He was taken to a hospital for precautionary X-rays, which turned out
negative. The injury was termed a bruised hip.
Baker entered the game as the league's fourth leading scorer,
averaging 26 points a game. He's among the top 10 in four categories,
including rebounds at 10.7 a game.
Bucks coach Chris Ford said Baker would miss practice Saturday and
would be day-to-day for Sunday's game against the Los Angeles
Clippers.
nba.1517vpoznanovic,
1996-97 NBA salaries
(Nov 15, 1996 - 22:54 EST) -- By The Associated Press:
ATLANTA HAWKS
Dikembe Mutombo $8,013,000
Christian Laettner $4,500,000
Steve Smith $4,500,000
Ken Norman $2,869,000
Mookie Blaylock $2,800,000
Alan Henderson $910,000
Priest Lauderdale $548,000
Jon Barry $247,500
Willie Burton $247,500
Tyrone Corbin $247,500
Ivano Newbill $247,500
Eldridge Recasner $247,500
Donnie Boyce $247,500
BOSTON CELTICS
Dino Radja $5,313,000
Dana Barros $3,400,000
Dee Brown $3,250,000
Todd Day $2,915,000
Greg Minor $1,800,000
Pervis Ellison $1,760,000
Rick Fox $1,750,000
Antoine Walker $1,620,000
Frank Brickowski $1,500,000
Eric Williams $1,008,000
Alton Lister $500,000
David Wesley $350,000
Marty Conlon $247,500
Steve Hamer $220,000
Brett Szabo $220,000
Nate Driggers $220,000
CHARLOTTE HORNETS
Vlade Divac $4,718,000
Glen Rice $4,002,000
Anthony Mason $2,777,000
Dell Curry $1,830,000
Muggsy Bogues $1,575,000
Matt Geiger $1,562,000
Scott Burrell $1,235,000
Tony Delk $870,000
George Zidek $694,000
Rafael Addison $290,000
Anthony Goldwire $250,000
Tony Smith $247,500
Malik Rose $220,000
Carlos Strong $220,000
CHICAGO BULLS
Michael Jordan $30,140,000
Dennis Rodman $9,000,000
Toni Kukoc $3,960,000
Ron Harper $3,840,000
Luc Longley $2,790,000
Scottie Pippen $2,250,000
Randy Brown $1,300,000
Dickey Simpkins $1,040,000
Robert Parish $1,000,000
Bill Wennington $1,000,000
Steve Kerr $750,000
Jason Caffey $700,000
Jud Buechler $500,000
Thomas Hamilton $247,000
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS
Danny Ferry $4,643,000
Tyrone Hill $3,480,000
Mark West $2,000,000
Bobby Phills $1,808,000
Terrell Brandon $1,312,000
Chris Mills $1,235,000
Vitaly Potapenko $1,068,000
Bob Sura $864,000
Zydrunas Ilgauskas $720,000
Antonio Lang $520,000
Donny Marshall $450,000
Shawnelle Scott $300,000
Carl Thomas $247,500
Reggie Geary $220,000
DALLAS MAVERICKS
Jason Kidd $4,408,000
Jim Jackson $3,900,000
Jamal Mashburn $3,833,000
Chris Gatling $3,047,000
Derek Harper $1,300,000
Eric Montross $1,280,000
Samaki Walker $1,246,000
Tony Dumas $1,120,000
George McCloud $1,100,000
Loren Meyer $639,000
Greg Dreiling $247,500
Oliver Miller $247,000
Fred Roberts $247,000
Erick Strickland $220,000
DENVER NUGGETS
Bryant Stith $3,400,000
LaPhonso Ellis $3,294,000
Mark Jackson $2,900,000
Antonio McDyess $2,545,000
Sarunas Marciulionis $2,500,000
Ervin Johnson $1,636,000
Dale Ellis $1,600,000
Ricky Pierce $1,200,000
Tom Hammonds $1,070,000
Keith Jennings $247,500
Rich King $247,500
Eric Murdock $247,500
LaSalle Thompson $247,500
Darvin Ham $220,000
Jeff McInnis $220,000
DETROIT PISTONS
Otis Thorpe $7,000,000
Grant Hill $5,025,000
Joe Dumars $3,075,000
Stacey Augmon $2,480,000
Terry Mills $2,457,000
Grant Long $2,260,000
Lindsey Hunter $1,715,000
Theo Ratliff $821,000
Jerome Williams $568,000
Michael Curry $400,000
Rick Mahorn $400,000
Don Reid $400,000
Litterial Green $247,500
Kenny Smith $247,500
GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
Latrell Sprewell $7,000,000
Mark Price $3,409,000
Donyell Marshall $3,360,000
Chris Mullin $2,844,000
Joe Smith $2,794,000
Felton Spencer $2,694,000
B.J. Armstrong $2,400,000
Donald Royal $1,700,000
Bimbo Coles $1,400,000
Jon Koncak $1,150,000
Todd Fuller $1,125,000
Andrew DeClercq $276,000
Mike Peplowski $247,500
Lou Roe $247,500
Ray Owes $220,000
HOUSTON ROCKETS
Hakeem Olajuwon $9,655,000
Clyde Drexler $5,500,000
Charles Barkley $4,695,000
Brent Price $1,600,000
Kevin Willis $1,500,000
Mario Elie $1,400,000
Matt Bullard $247,500
Othella Harrington $247,500
Charles Jones $247,500
Sam Mack $247,500
Matt Maloney $247,500
Tracy Moore $247,500
Emanual Davis $220,000
Randy Livingston $220,000
INDIANA PACERS
Reggie Miller $11,250,000
Dale Davis $6,508,000
Antonio Davis $5,200,000
Rik Smits $4,000,000
Derrick McKey $3,000,000
Vincent Askew $2,000,000
Jalen Rose $1,560,000
Eddie Johnson $1,200,000
Erick Dampier $1,184,000
Haywoode Workman $1,080,000
Duane Ferrell $1,040,000
Travis Best $666,000
Fred Hoiberg $297,000
Jerome Allen $247,500
Brent Scott $247,500
LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS
Stanley Roberts $3,250,000
Loy Vaught $3,100,000
Pooh Richardson $2,721,000
Lamond Murray $2,700,000
Rodney Rogers $2,280,000
Terry Dehere $1,905,000
Malik Sealy $1,732,000
Lorenzen Wright $1,480,000
Eric Piatkowski $1,363,000
Brent Barry $958,000
Dwayne Schintzius $625,000
Charles Outlaw $600,000
Darrick Martin $375,000
Kevin Duckworth $247,500
LOS ANGELES LAKERS
Shaquille O'Neal $10,714,000
Elden Campbell $7,000,000
Cedric Ceballos $2,400,000
Nick Van Exel $1,900,000
Eddie Jones $1,800,000
Corie Blount $1,235,000
Sean Rooks $1,200,000
Kobe Bryant $1,015,000
Derek Fisher $612,000
Jerome Kersey $247,500
Rumeal Robinson $247,500
Byron Scott $247,500
Trevor Wilson $247,500
Travis Knight $220,000
MIAMI HEAT
Alonzo Mourning $9,380,000
Tim Hardaway $2,500,000
Dan Majerle $2,350,000
P.J. Brown $2,000,000
Predrag Danilovic $1,892,000
Kurt Thomas $1,238,000
Keith Askins $650,000
Gary Grant $500,000
Martin Muursepp $401,000
Ed Pinckney $300,000
Isaac Austin $247,500
Tony Farmer $247,500
Voshon Lenard $247,500
Mark Strickland $247,500
James Scott $220,000
MILWAUKEE BUCKS
Glenn Robinson $4,640,000
Vin Baker $3,765,000
Sherman Douglas $3,594,000
Andrew Lang $2,332,000
Armon Gilliam $2,317,000
Elliot Perry $2,000,000
Ray Allen $1,785,000
Shawn Respert $1,417,000
Johnny Newman $1,225,000
Joe Wolf $400,000
Darrin Hancock $247,500
Keith Tower $247,500
David Wood $247,500
Moochie Norris $220,000
MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES
Tom Gugliotta $5,000,000
Stoyko Vrankovic $2,900,000
Micheal Williams $2,475,000
Doug West $2,155,000
Stephon Marbury $1,917,000
Terry Porter $1,775,000
Kevin Garnett $1,666,000
James Robinson $1,235,000
Sam Mitchell $1,200,000
Bill Curley $1,123,000
Cherokee Parks $1,117,000
Chris Carr $750,000
Shane Heal $320,000
Dean Garrett $247,500
Virginius Praskevicius $220,000
NEW JERSEY NETS
Shawn Bradley $5,130,000
Kendall Gill $3,800,000
Robert Pack $2,700,000
Kevin Edwards $2,280,000
Jayson Williams $2,250,000
Reggie Williams $2,048,000
Khalid Reeves $1,752,000
Yinka Dare $1,448,000
Kerry Kittles $1,356,000
Ed O'Bannon $1,303,000
David Benoit $508,000
Xavier McDaniel $254,000
Adrian Caldwell $247,500
Tony Massenberg $247,500
NEW YORK KNICKERBOCKERS
Larry Johnson $5,004,000
Allan Houston $5,000,000
Patrick Ewing $3,000,000
Chris Childs $2,600,000
Charles Oakley $2,600,000
John Starks $1,913,000
Buck Williams $1,193,000
Charlie Ward $888,000
John Wallace $785,000
Herb Williams $757,000
Walter McCarty $750,000
Dontae Jones $691,000
Scott Brooks $247,500
Chris Jent $247,500
Eric Leckner $247,500
ORLANDO MAGIC
Horace Grant $14,857,000
Anfernee Hardaway $6,655,000
Brian Shaw $4,000,000
Nick Anderson $3,790,000
Rony Seikaly $3,752,000
Dennis Scott $3,000,000
Clifford Rozier $1,040,000
David Vaughn $614,000
Brian Evans $551,000
Darrell Armstrong $410,000
Danny Schayes $247,500
Derek Strong $247,500
Gerald Wilkins $247,500
Amal McCaskill $220,000
PHILADELPHIA 76ERS
Derrick Coleman $6,739,000
Clarence Weatherspoon $3,300,000
Scott Williams $2,400,000
Jerry Stackhouse $2,286,000
Allen Iverson $2,267,000
Don MacLean $1,780,000
Michael Cage $1,473,000
Rex Walters $1,235,000
Lucious Harris $1,200,000
Mark Bradtke $247,500
Mark Davis $247,500
Mark Hendrickson $247,500
Doug Overton $247,500
PHOENIX SUNS
Kevin Johnson $7,000,000
Danny Manning $6,833,000
A.C. Green $4,315,000
John Williams $4,151,000
Wayman Tisdale $3,475,000
Robert Horry $1,703,000
Sam Cassell $1,235,000
Joe Kleine $1,235,000
Mark Bryant $1,150,000
Wesley Person $1,040,000
Steve Nash $916,000
Michael Finley $723,000
Chucky Brown $500,000
Rex Chapman $247,500
Ben Davis $220,000
PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
Kenny Anderson $4,175,000
Chris Dudley $4,100,000
Isaiah Rider $3,610,000
Clifford Robinson $2,924,000
Arvydas Sabonis $2,640,000
Rasheed Wallace $2,060,000
Gary Trent $1,176,000
Aaron McKie $1,040,000
Jermaine O'Neal $827,000
Randolph Childress $784,000
Mitchell Butler $600,000
Dontonio Wingfield $500,000
Aleksandar Djordjevic $247,500
Reggie Jordan $247,500
Marcus Brown $220,000
SACRAMENTO KINGS
Billy Owens $3,773,000
Mitch Richmond $3,575,000
Lionel Simmons $3,194,000
Olden Polynice $3,140,000
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf $3,100,000
Bobby Hurley $3,068,000
Duane Causwell $2,215,000
Michael Smith $1,570,000
Brian Grant $1,293,000
Kevin Gamble $1,196,000
Corliss Williamson $1,051,000
Tyus Edney $247,500
Kevin Salvadori $247,500
SAN ANTONIO SPURS
David Robinson $9,952,000
Sean Elliott $5,333,000
Charles Smith $3,557,000
Chuck Person $2,060,000
Vinny Del Negro $2,023,000
Carl Herrera $1,550,000
Will Perdue $1,544,000
Avery Johnson $1,040,000
Monty Williams $1,040,000
Vernon Maxwell $1,000,000
Greg Anderson $584,000
Cory Alexander $521,000
Tim Kempton $247,500
Dominique Wilkins $247,500
SEATTLE SUPERSONICS
Gary Payton $10,212,000
Detlef Schrempf $3,333,000
Shawn Kemp $3,300,000
Jim McIlvaine $3,000,000
Sam Perkins $2,730,000
Hersey Hawkins $2,604,000
Nate McMillan $1,355,000
Greg Graham $1,330,000
David Wingate $560,000
Craig Ehlo $360,000
Steve Scheffler $275,000
Eric Snow $247,500
Larry Stewart $247,500
TORONTO RAPTORS
Sharone Wright $3,100,000
Marcus Camby $2,434,000
Popeye Jones $1,581,000
Damon Stoudamire $1,547,000
Doug Christie $1,355,000
Hubert Davis $1,295,000
Acie Earl $1,235,000
Carlos Rogers $1,144,000
Zan Tabak $800,000
Mark Hughes $247,500
Walt Williams $247,500
Donald Whiteside $220,000
UTAH JAZZ
John Stockton $6,000,000
Karl Malone $4,657,000
Chris Morris $2,500,000
Jeff Hornacek $2,396,000
Antoine Carr $2,300,000
Adam Keefe $1,950,000
Brooks Thompson $1,118,000
Jamie Watson $1,000,000
Greg Ostertag $573,000
Greg Foster $420,000
Bryon Russell $385,000
Howard Eisley $298,000
Shandon Anderson $220,000
VANCOUVER GRIZZLIES
Shareef Abdur-Rahim $2,186,000
Blue Edwards $2,100,000
George Lynch $2,090,000
Greg Anthony $1,875,000
Bryant Reeves $1,695,000
Anthony Peeler $1,540,000
Lee Mayberry $1,100,000
Eric Mobley $992,000
Pete Chilcutt $700,000
Roy Rogers $664,000
Lawrence Moten $321,000
Doug Edwards $247,500
Rich Manning $247,000
Chris Robinson $220,000
WASHINGTON BULLETS
Juwan Howard $9,750,000
Chris Webber $8,000,000
Harvey Grant $4,111,000
Calbert Cheaney $3,200,000
Rod Strickland $3,036,000
Gheorghe Muresan $2,363,000
Tracy Murray $1,700,000
Lorenzo Williams $940,000
Tim Legler $450,000
Chris Whitney $400,000
Ashraf Amaya $247,500
Matt Fish $247,500
Jaren Jackson $247,500
Ben Wallace $247,500
nba.1518vpoznanovic,
Injured knee will sideline Hardaway up to six weeks
ORLANDO, Fla. (Nov 15, 1996 - 19:42 EST) -- The Orlando Magic's
early-season fortunes suffered a blow Friday when the team learned
that Penny Hardaway's ailing left knee will require surgery that'll
sideline him up to six weeks.
The all-star point guard has been slowed since training camp by
soreness that also contributed to a problem with his left hamstring.
Earlier tests revealed no damage to the knee, although the pain
persisted.
The team said Hardaway, 25, will undergo exploratory arthroscopic
surgery on Sunday and will be sidelined 2-6 weeks, depending on what
doctors find.
"The reason we are performing this procedure instead of an MRI is
because we believe Penny has some torn cartilage," said Dr. Jim
Barnett, who examined Hardaway on Friday and consulted with Houston
specialist Dr. Walter Lowe.
"Once we perform the procedure, we will have a better idea about the
prognosis and subsequent time off."
The Magic is off to a 3-1 start with Hardaway assuming a bigger role
in the offense because of the departure of Shaquille O'Neal, who
signed a $120 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers.
The fourth-year pro, hampered by an inflamed hamstring tendon as well
as persistent pain behind his knee, is averaging 21.3 points, 6.3
rebounds and 5.3 assists.
"Some days I couldn't even hardly walk," Hardaway said. "I just played
because I thought the team really needed me. ... You can look at it
two ways. The good part is that when I come back, I'll be healthy. The
bad part is that I'm missing games."
Hardaway is not sure when he injured the knee, but thinks it might
have occurred in a collision with Detroit's Joe Dumars during the
first round of last season's playoffs.
Although the knee bothered him the rest of the playoffs, he didn't
experience as much pain while playing for the United States in the
Olympics during the summer.
An MRI two weeks ago didn't reveal ligament damage. Hardaway was given
medication and accompanied the team to Japan for two games against the
New Jersey Nets.
He scheduled another doctor's appointment after playing 41 minutes in
Orlando's 96-89 victory over Charlotte on Thursday night.
"The medicine made me feel a lot better, and we thought the problem
was almost solved until last night's game when I really couldn't jump.
I said: 'We have got to do something about it."'
Hardaway scored 14 points, going 4-for-13 from the field against the
Hornets. He also had seven rebounds and seven assists, but coach Brian
Hill said he clearly was not the player he's accustomed to watching.
"He made some moves around the basket and didn't finish them, plays he
would normally just explode over guys and dunk," Hill said. "But there
was no explosion."
Gerald Wilkins will replace Hardaway in the lineup Saturday night
against Toronto.
nba.1519vpoznanovic,
Iverson suffers separated shoulder
PHILADELPHIA (Nov 15, 1996 - 23:48 EST) -- Philadelphia 76ers rookie
point guard Allen Iverson separated his shoulder Friday night in a
105-89 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Team surgeon Dr. Jack McPhilemy said Iverson would be sidelined for at
least one week, although Iverson himself said he could be back by next
Wednesday.
Iverson came out of the game with 6:16 remaining in the fourth quarter
after colliding with Danny Ferry underneath the Cavs' basket. He
stayed on the bench for a couple of minutes before leaving for the
locker room.
He was taken to a hospital for X-rays.
"I ran into a screen and it didn't feel right. I threw a pass and I
knew something was wrong, so I took myself out. Right now, I think I
can be back by Wednesday. I don't think it's that bad," Iverson said.
Iverson, the No. 1 overall pick of last summer's draft, is the leading
scorer among NBA rookies. He scored 16 points Friday night, 7.7 below
his team-leading average.
nba.1520vpoznanovic,
NBA cool to Iverson's playground style
(Nov 15, 1996 - 09:12 EST) -- Basketball is the game of the
playgrounds, but the National Basketball Association resists and
resents playground hoop culture. Oh sure, league-packaged highlights
of games are virtually limited to dunks, which are to the playground
what kneeling is to church. The NBA's media people know how to appeal
to the residents of the playground. And the league seems in touch with
its asphalt roots, standing well out in front of the other
professional sports enterprises in terms of minority hiring on the
court and in the front office. The NBA looks like what you'd find on
or around an urban playground.
Still, the NBA's cool embrace of Allen Iverson, the first overall
selection in last summer's draft, suggests that commissioner David
Stern isn't about to pave over the hardwood. Iverson, the quintessence
of playground hoops, is not just taking the NBA by storm in his rookie
season with the Philadelphia 76ers. He is going up against the
orthodoxies of a league that has maintained as its logo the silhouette
of Jerry West, a player whose game was textbook rather than hip-hop.
As a high-school junior, Iverson was Virginia's best player on both
the court and the gridiron. He spent a good portion of his senior year
in jail for his part in a brawl at a bowling alley in his hometown of
Hampton. The brawl was set off by racial tensions and some people
believed the case was not black and white so much as the verdict was
white-trumping-black.
Iverson was eventually granted clemency and his conviction was
overturned on appeal. Iverson went on to Georgetown, favorite school
of the playgrounds. His calves had no more meat on them than a
third-rate chicken wing, yet he was clearly the fastest player in the
collegiate ranks. He pushed the ball up the court at full throttle.
His jump shot was ugly, but he pulled the trigger on it without a
conscience or consideration of teammates. He was a scorer rather than
a shooter, a creator of chances, mostly his own. He was not a savvy
player, but rather a sublimely gifted athlete, the anti-West.
Iverson outgrew Georgetown by the end of his sophomore year. His
selection by the 76ers had all the makings of disaster: A
fundamentally unsound point guard seemingly oblivious or indifferent
to the game's subtleties going to the worst team in the league.
Perhaps the mechanical fundamentals are overrated. The real
fundamentals are results.
In his first six games as a pro, Iverson averaged almost 24 points a
contest. Critics questioned his shot selection, yet he was knocking
down 48 per cent of his shots from the field. In New York Tuesday
night, he scored 35 points and fouled out two defenders in a 101-97
victory over the purportedly mighty Knicks.
Wednesday night's loss to the Raptors at the Skydome was far from
Iverson's best game. Of course, in this matchup of Toronto and
Philadelphia, fans will look for the game within the game, Iverson
versus Raptors point guard Damon Stoudamire, last year's NBA rookie of
the year. The numbers suggest something of a saw-off. Iverson
outscored Stoudamire 24 to 21. He was clearly more effective in
creating his own shot and showed better judgment in letting fly.
Iverson shot 8-for-16 from the field, Stoudamire 8-for-26.
"If I had 26 shots, I figure I'd better get 21 points," Iverson noted
ruefully. "I can get my shot anytime I want."
Toronto's tiny tattooed wonder enjoyed a healthy margin in assists, 12
to Iverson's three, but that's just the nature of their contrasting
games. Asked about the similarities in their styles, Iverson ignored
the fundamentals, as is his wont, and cut through something more
elemental.
"He has a lot of confidence and I play with my heart more than skill,"
he said. "I've dealt with more pressure in my life than basketball. I
deal with pressure every time I'm criticized."
Despite the loss, Iverson showed evidence that only injury or burnout
can stop him from becoming the next big thing in this league and, with
the graying and balding of its biggest names, this league is desperate
for a next anything.
How has the NBA responded to this prodigy's arrival? Curiously, with
hostility.
The league sent Iverson a memo advising him that his cross-over
dribble is palming. Any player who dribbles the ball behind his back
is probably in technical violation of the rule book. And even on more
conventional dribbling, backcourters consistently caress the ball
below its equator.
Iverson's hesitation at the top of the bounce is a violation, but it
has been that way for guards ranging from Nate Archibald to Tim
Hardaway. Their flourishes went uncalled. NBA refs, however, have been
calling Iverson as if they had quotas to fill, even whistling him for
a violation when he brings the ball up the court under no pressure in
a half-court offense.
Sure, Iverson's game is playground. Yes, the league thinks his shorts,
the height of playground fashion, are too baggy. All of this is like
telling Elvis that his hair is too long to play Nashville. If you get
lost in the look you're missing the substance.
Carry the ball? Iverson can carry a team and in time maybe a league.
The world is his playground and those guys writing the memos and
blowing the whistles better get used to it.
nba.1521vpoznanovic,
Ainge believes he'll rise to occasion
PHOENIX -- New Phoenix Suns coach Danny Ainge, former coach Cotton
Fitzsimmons and President and CEO Jerry Colangelo addressed the media
Friday for the first time since the team named Ainge the new head
coach just eight games into the season.
"Cotton has done a fantastic job and he's a great coach and great
friend," Colangelo said. "He will continue to be with the franchise,
he's going to be right by our side being involved with every
basketball decision."
Disappointed with the Suns' 0-7 start, Fitzsimmons told the team
before Thursday night's game against Vancouver that he was retiring,
putting an end to a coaching career that spanned 26 years and more
than 800 victories.
"I'm kind of like a bad penny, you can't get rid of me," joked
Fitzsimmons. "I'm not dead, don't feel bad for me. Feel bad for Ainge
-- he's the guy that has to coach.
"I wouldn't have done this if I didn't think he could do the job. If I
thought that Jerry had hired me a country bumpkin that couldn't do the
job, I would've sat there all the way through. He can do the job and
should do it now."
"I kind of sensed something was up for a week, just being with
Cotton," added Colangelo. "It was starting to show on his face. When
he informed me on the afternoon of the Milwaukee game (Tuesday), I
knew it would not be appropriate to try and persuade him in any shape
or form."
After the announcement, the Suns dropped a 92-89 decision to the
Grizzlies, leaving them the lone winless team in the Western
Conference at 0-8.
The 36-year-old Ainge, who ended a 13-year playing career with
Phoenix, was hired May 30 as Fitzsimmons' eventual successor. Ainge's
first game will be Sunday at home against the Los Angeles Lakers. If
Phoenix losses Sunday it would match the franchise's worst start of
0-9 in 1986.
"I am very excited to get the chance to coach," said Ainge. "That's
why I took the job originally. I feel very qualified, but it did catch
me off-guard that it happened as soon as it happened.
"I felt that my presence and my position in some cases were
undermining his (Cotton's) authority. The fact that players would come
to me, it was like we had two head coaches and Cotton didn't have the
authority. It was a weird deal.
"They (the players) knew I was going to be the coach next year and
some of them were already campaigning for playing time."
Ainge also established what would be a no non-sense approach to his
job.
"I'm not afraid of any of these guys, I want to win," he said. "I'm
not afraid to sit guys I've played with or that I was close to or sit
guys that I'm not big fans of -- I'm going to play the guys that earn
the minutes."
It is believed to be the earliest NBA coaching change since Gene Shue
was fired by the Philadelphia 76ers six games into the 1977-78 season.
At 65, Fitzsimmons was the oldest coach in the NBA. He came down from
the front office last season to replace Paul Westphal, who was fired
on Jan. 16. Westphal served as an assistant to Fitzsimmons before
taking over as coach in 1992.
Fitzsimmons will take another position in the organization. He already
has served as director of player personnel, broadcaster and three
stints as coach. He is expected to return to a vice president position
in the Suns organization.
"I have total confidence in Danny Ainge, the staff and the players to
get the job done," Fitzsimmons said earlier this week. "I will always
be available to provide any input to the coaching staff and players
and will now devote my time and energy to the continued improvement
and success of the Phoenix Suns franchise."
In a coaching career that began in 1970, he compiled a record of
832-775, placing him seventh on the all-time victory list. He won
Coach of the Year Awards in 1979 with the Kansas City Kings and 1989
with Phoenix.
The Suns traded All-Star forward Charles Barkley during the off-season
and Fitzsimmons installed a triangle offense similar to the one used
by the NBA champion Chicago Bulls. But the early results have not been
good. The Suns are 21st in offense and 26th in defense.
Ainge, a 13-year NBA veteran with four teams, will have former NBA
forward Paul Silas and Donn Nelson as assistants. Ainge played in six
NBA Finals, winning championships with Boston in 1984 and 1986.
Ainge left his position as television analyst for Turner Sports to
take the job with the Suns. Prior to his basketball career, Ainge
played baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays.
nba.1522vpoznanovic,
Cotton quits; Ainge taking over
VANCOUVER, B.C. (Nov 15, 1996 - 11:30 EST) -- Before the season
opened, the Phoenix Suns were seen as possibly a surprise team in the
NBA's Western Conference.
Going winless in eight games makes that possibility true for the wrong
reasons, and Cotton Fitzsimmons took full responsibility.
Fitzsimmons, 65, resigned Thursday, effective after the game the Suns
lost 92-89 to Vancouver, and handed the team over to assistant Danny
Ainge, 37.
Ainge, who says his last experience as a head coach was with eighth
graders, was to have inherited the team at the end of the season, but
the Suns' worst start in 11 years led Fitzsimmons to halt his 21st
season early.
"I made the decision last Saturday after the (112-95) Philadelphia
loss," Fitzsimmons said. "I was embarrassed by the way we played."
And though Fitzsimmons said he takes full responsibility for where the
Suns are now, neither Ainge nor Suns president Jerry Colangelo agreed.
"This isn't his fault," Colangelo said. "We haven't had certain people
play up to par, we've had a terrible schedule, and we haven't had a
roster that was healthy."
Ainge, who helped the Suns reach the playoffs in 1993 as a player,
took a similar position.
"It's certainly not Cotton's fault we started this way. He isn't
responsible for one loss," Ainge said.
Fitzsimmons, No. 7 in NBA coaching victories, was optimistic before
the season started two weeks ago.
"I like to see something come from nothing," he said. "Maybe that's
one reason I'm so pumped up this year. The challenge to turn another
team around in adrenaline to me."
Then the struggle took its toll. "I could see the wear and tear on
him. The stress. It concerned me," said Colangelo, who first hired
Fitzsimmons in 1970.
Colangelo tried to cheer Fitzsimmons up, but "this was 100 percent
Cotton's call," Colangelo said. As for Ainge, he said, "I think he's
ready."
Fitzsimmons was disturbed by the team's lackluster play. The Suns,
normally a high-octane team, apparently had no passion.
"The fact that I can't get it from them is embarrassing to me as a
coach," Fitzsimmons said. "It's embarrassing for the franchise."
Tuesday, before the Suns' 99-89 overtime loss to Milwaukee, he told
Colangelo that Thursday was the day he would step down.
"You never want to go out losing," he said Thursday. "My guys are
snakebit. I have plenty of wins. My team needs to win, to get the
snake off the back.
"By me stepping down this early in the season, the team will have 74
games to straighten themselves out and head in the right direction."
The Suns have struggled since trading Charles Barkley to Houston
during the offseason. They have yet to score 100 points in a game this
season -- another franchise record-low streak -- and rank near the
bottom in points allowed, scoring and rebounding.
They also have two centers on the injured list -- Mark Bryant and John
"Hot Rod" Williams, and guard Kevin Johnson has been sidelined since
undergoing hernia surgery in late September. Power forward A.C. Green
has been playing hurt.
Ainge, who is about to get some of those players back, is optimistic.
"It will be a struggle for us to make the playoffs, but we have a
chance to do it," said Ainge, who remembers sitting around the kitchen
table as a boy and using salt and pepper shakers to plot plays and
strategy with his older brothers. He said he would rely heavily on
assistant coaches Donn Nelson and Paul Silas.
"And I plan on making changes," he said. "What they will be, I don't
know yet. I need to sit down with Donnie and Paul and set down a plan.
I do think there's some light ahead.
"We're going to build a foundation, simplify and go from there.
"The biggest challenge for me is just deciding who is going to play,"
he added. "We've got rebounders, tough guys, shooters. we've got a
variety of talent.
"The toughest call, especially when we get our three injured guys
back, is to decide how to use them. Sometimes finding the right
chemistry is more important than anything else."
Ainge, who has no previous coaching experience, was hired as an
assistant in May. He played the final three seasons of his 14-year NBA
career with Phoenix before taking a television analyst job with TNT in
1995.
Fitzsimmons, who remains senior vice president of the Suns, coached
teams to an 832-775 record during stints with the Atlanta Hawks,
Buffalo Braves, Kansas City Kings, San Antonio Spurs and seven-plus
seasons with Phoenix.
He also was director of player personnel for Golden State during the
1976-77 season.
He stepped upstairs with the Suns in 1992, allowing protege and former
Suns star Paul Westphal to take over a team that included the newly
acquired Barkley. Westphal was groomed during four years as an
assistant, but he was fired after the injury-plagued 1995-96 team got
off to a 14-19 start.
nba.1523vpoznanovic,
Sabonis injures hip and elbow
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (Nov 15, 1996 - 21:30 EST) -- Portland center
Arvydas Sabonis had to leave the Trail Blazers' game against New
Jersey on Friday night after injuring his right hip and elbow in a
first-quarter fall.
Sabonis was hurt after missing a rebound follow of a Kenny Anderson
shot with about 7:50 to play. He was replaced by Dontonio Wingfield 28
seconds later.
After being treated in the locker room, Sabonis returned to the bench
and spent the rest of the half there. He was not on the bench for the
second half.
Sabonis, who has started all 10 games for Portland, was averaging 9.9
points, 8.7 rebounds and 1.67 blocks in 23.3 minutes.
The injury left the Trail Blazers shorthanded since forward Rasheed
Wallace was not with the team. He was allowed to miss the game for
personal family business.
Clifford Robinson was taken out of the starting lineup and did not
play in the first quarter for violating team rules, the club said.
nba.1524vpoznanovic,
The Kings big man makes his point
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Nov 15, 1996 - 05:42 EST) -- Kings center-forward
Olden Polynice didn't get much accomplished with just one point scored
Wednesday night in a 105-74 loss to the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City.
However, he did make a political statement when he refused to sit in a
chair on the visitors bench that bore the name "Texaco" on the seat
back. Many of Polynice's teammates covered the name with a towel.
Polynice said he was supporting a boycott and protest of the company,
which is under siege for alleged racial discrimination and use of
racial slurs in a conversation among company executives.
"I've been learning through the media about what has been going on
with the company, and I was not going to sit in the seat," Polynice
said. "I've heard some of the tapes and have been reading about it. I
think it's time that people stand up for what they believe. We know
that racism is a big part of this country and that America is very
hypocritical."
Polynice had noticed the logo on the seat back during the team's
morning shootaround and said to everyone, "I'm not sitting in those
chairs."
David Allred, Utah vice president of public relations, was seated near
the Kings bench and said Polynice did not cause a disturbance.
"He just said he wasn't sitting in the seats," Allred said. "He was
pretty cool about it. He motioned to a ball boy that he wanted another
chair, and the first thing I thought was that the chair was broken.
You're into the game at the time. That's how naive I was about it, but
then one of the fans told him to sit down.
"And O.P. said he was not going to sit in a chair that had Texaco on
it. He said he'd rather sit on the floor."
"Texaco is one of the team's major sponsors," Allred said, "and the
issue is one the organization will have to handle. We contacted our
representative (Thursday), and he said we were not the only team he
had heard from. Obviously, we are concerned about the issue."
The Texaco name is on the seat back of the folding chairs on both the
visiting and home benches.
Allred said he has received no complaints from the Jazz players.
"People have to realize that not all athletes or African Americans are
ignorant," Polynice said. "And it's not like we all do not care. There
are some of us who are concerned about how we are perceived. And I
would have the (same) mentality if the slurs were pertaining to Puerto
Ricans or Mexicans or whoever. Any racist terminology is
unsatisfactory and cannot be tolerated."
nba.1525vpoznanovic,
New owners takes over Raptors
TORONTO (Nov 15, 1996 - 11:30 EST) -- A Canadian broadcasting
executive took control of the Toronto Raptors Friday, immediately gave
a pat on the back to general manager Isiah Thomas and said he would
join the Toronto Maple Leafs on a new stadium.
Allan Slaight, owner of media giant Standard Broadcasting, took over
the NBA team overnight when president John Bitove Jr. was unable to
come up with the estimated $65 million necessary to purchase Slaight's
39.5 percent of the franchise by the midnight deadline.
The NBA must approve any change in the ownership structure.
Slaight said Thomas' job as vice-president and general manager was
secure. Thomas also owns nine percent of the team.
"I think he's one of the class acts, in business and sports," Slaight
said in an interview on his flagship station CFRB. "Isiah will be with
us. Isiah is happy and proud to be part of the Raptors and the Toronto
scene."
Slaight forced the ownership issue last month when he invoked a
"shotgun clause" in the ownership agreement whereby one had to buy out
the other or be bought out himself for a reported $42 million.
"I don't feel particularly comfortable with how it evolved," Slaight
said.
Both Slaight and Bitove owned 39.5 percent of the Raptors, with 10
percent also owned by the Bank of Nova Scotia, nine percent by
vice-president and Thomas and one percent each by former Ontario
premier David Peterson and the estate of the late Phil Granovsky.
The major impact of the ownership changes will be on the Raptors'
oft-delayed new arena.
Unlike Bitove, Slaight had insisted the Raptors and Leafs should share
an arena.
Asked today if the Leafs and Raptors could share a facility, Slaight
said: "Yes, I do."
Slaight also said there would be no immediate changes in the
day-to-day operation of the team.
"I think that's an absolutely superb staff down there," he said.
"There's no contemplation on our part in terms of changes or firings."